Author: Neale Monks

All the best science fiction uses the medium to convey a message. Isaac Asimov used fiction to show possible advances in science, and what

Something I just noticed. Type in “Windows”. Hit return. Result: Windows; plural noun [treated as sing. ] trademark, a computer operating system with a

Yesterday I stopped by the Apple/Slashdot site. Wall to wall iPhone articles and literally thousands of comments. It’s the cover story on the Macworld

As if their fawning hype leading up to the iPhone launch wasn’t bad enough, the last few days has seen many of those same

Mac OS X has mostly improved between with each new iteration. I started off my Mac OS X experience with the 10.0 (‘Cheetah’) version

The only place users can buy applications for their iPhones is the Apple App Store. Or put another way, if you’re a software developer,

In these days of credit crunches and Wall Street bail-outs, the notion of marketing a computer (or, for that matter, an operating system) on

One of the great things about MobileMe is how tightly it integrates with the whole Macintosh operating system. Applications can connect to MobileMe resources

Of all the Macs, the PowerBooks will always be my first love. Though I’ve used many different desktop machines over the years, all the

Many computer users like to think pirating software or music is a victimless crime. After all, how is installing the latest version OS X

In a speech to students at a university in Tehran, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said, among other things, that Israel should be “wiped off the

A news article at the BBC web site (see the link below) chronicles the difficulties a number of tech companies have had in getting

Websites are a great way for people to share opinions on the computer industry, whether it’s reviewing a new program or commenting on the

Apple Computer like virtually all computer manufacturers, depends on foreign manufacturing, particularly in the Far East, where labour is much cheaper. This is, of

Several correspondents at MyMac.com have referred to the European Union in their blogs and articles, but for many Americans the entire structure remains something

Whether or not the oil runs dry in the next ten years, fifty years, or a hundred years really doesn’t matter. At some point,

Tony Blair, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom since 1997 and leader of the main left-of-centre party in Great Britain since 1994, is perhaps

Tim’s piece last week about how BootCamp — the utility that allows an Intel-powered Macintosh to startup using either Mac OS X or Windows

Hot news from the High Court in London. Apple Corp, the Beatles’ record label, has lost their bid to force Apple Computer from using

Nike has announced a collaboration with Apple Computer known as Nike+ to produce an integrated system that transmits information from their running shoes to