Tag Archives: Technology

WordPress 2.6 and Freshy

In the absence of genuine content updates, the long-overdue announcement that this site no longer uses WordPress 2.5 or K2, but is now on WordPress 2.6 and a new theme. I spent several weeks looking for a new base theme … Continue reading

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Six, already?

Today, Apple released iTunes 6. This is the most gratuitous major version bump I’ve ever seen. Sure, new iPods came out today that play video. It’s about time. And the iTunes music store also carries short films and TV shows … Continue reading

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Microsoft Student: It’s like, totally lame

Today Microsoft released a new software suite for students. It’s aimed at secondary-school students, and offers them resources to help them complete assignments in standard subject areas like maths, science and so on. Students would probably be best advised to … Continue reading

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MIT Blog Survey

Today I did a survey that MIT is carrying out. The questions focus on what your blogging practice is like, and on what kinds of people you know personally. If you read this and keep a blog, give it a … Continue reading

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Apple on x86: a gamer’s perspective

In today’s WWDC keynote, Steve Jobs officially announced that Apple is beginning to switch its CPU-based products from the PowerPC architecture to x86. Online responses have been varied, commenting on what effect the move will have on Apple’s sales, Linux, … Continue reading

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Microsoft copies Ubuntu logo

The MSN Spaces service recently passed out of its beta phase. On visiting the service’s home page, regular readers of OSNews will likely recognise a shocking degree of similarity between the Spaces logo and that of distro-of-the-moment Ubuntu Linux. The … Continue reading

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The halo effect

Macworld UK - Oz Mac sales double – IDC Apparently sales of Apple computers are really taking off in Australia. Macworld UK quotes IT analyst Michael Sager saying “Apple seems to be finally benefiting from the iPod halo effect.” I … Continue reading

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Wiping Linux off my hard drive

If there’s anyone who wasn’t quite sure if I’m a computer geek, this is the post to prove it… Ever since I went to the Digital Arts and Culture conference at RMIT in 2003, where I presented this paper, (many … Continue reading

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