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Posted on December 7, 2009 - by John

Awesome home office – Fanboy style!

Home Office © Lifehacker.com

I would love a home office, I have no real need for one, but if I had money I’d have one just like this. Glass and a Mac – so sexy, NO? I had a mac before and I got rid of it in favour of a laptop, a vaio laptop.

Posted on September 10, 2008 - by John

The day nothing happened at an Apple event

Image from Gizmodo

Somewhere yesterday, an Apple Fanboy was glued to his PC monitor waiting for something huge to happen, a big Apple event was about to be held! There were promises of new features to the iPhone range, a new line of iPods, and a software upgrade for the iPhone/iTouch. Time has now passed and the enthusiastic Apple Fanboy starts to navigate away from his favourite Apple news website, bored and disappointed, he goes in search of something interesting to fill the void left by Apples promise of something riveting…some porn perhaps? (more…)

Posted on January 31, 2007 - by John

LinkListing Wednesday

So, there seems to have been lots happening online when it comes to the blog world. And I missed most of them due to work committments

One of the first interesting piece of news is that Google Reader has what they call a small update, this is something interesting though, you can new view imbedded Youtube videos (as well as other video sites) in your Google Feed Reader, currently this crashes my browser window a bit, but thatâ€™s on an old windows PC, Iâ€™m sure it works well on my Mac at home.

â€œWe have another small update to Reader regarding video. Reader should now show videos from YouTube and Google Video (and a few other sites) that you have embedded in your blog posts and articlesâ€.

Some people are a little worried about the compatibility of their plugins, and it is a very good idea to check out this list before upgrading to wordpress 2.1.

Gravator â€“ I have noticed stopped working for me for some time (the service that allows you to show commenterâ€™s image beside their comment on your blog) and the reason is simple really, the site/server has been down, but the site says they will be back to full strength soon.

â€œIn addition to the new server architecture, development on Gravatar 2.0 is progressing rapidly and in the coming weeks you’ll see screenshots and news on this site. It’s a very exciting time ahead, once again, thanks for your continuing support!â€

In other relatively interesting news, and I say relative, because I am a Mac user (donâ€™t want to have a conflict of interest here – but Apple rules). But I have noticed that Bill Gates has been saying that Vista (just release in Ireland) has stated that it is the most secure version of windows yet, he would say that of course, but I also noticed that some experts challenge this view â€œSecurity experts have thrown doubt on Bill Gates’ claim that Vista is “more secure” than other operating systems.â€ BBC have it here.

Posted on January 20, 2007 - by John

Apple iPhone -The future for Apple?

I just watched Steve Jobs Macworld Conference & Expo 2007 keynote address from San Francisco, and although like any Apple fan, I ran for apple.com when I heard that it included the iPhone, I was shocked at how great this piece of technology actually is. This is an Apple iPod, Phone and Internet Browser all in one. And I have to say if I were any other phone right now I would be worried.

To be released in June 2007 in the USA and the fourth quarter for Europe and 2008 in Asia, the phone will take the world by storm, I do however wonder, how many changes mobile phone networks will have to make to accommodate it (there seems to be a few features that are network dependant), the only network in Ireland I can see doing this would probably be Vodafone, although I know that O2 have an apple thing going on (they sell iPods). But apple is breaking into a huge market here, their target is 1% of the market (meaning 10 million units sold) to begin with.

Apple seems to have every confidence in this phone, they have all the big wigs on board with this phone, Google and Yahoo, with Cingular (a mobile network in the US) all standing firm behind them. Apple have decided to remove the "Computer" part from Apple Computer Inc. It is a good move since their claim to fame has moved on heaps and bounds since the 1984 Mac computer. So you can check out all about this phone yourself from apple.com and watch all the keynote address here, and rather than go on about it, here is my take on what features the iPhone will have.

-Windscreen Video iPod
- Mobile Phone
- Google Maps
- SMS
- Camera Phone
- Mobile e-mail
- Wi-Fi
- 4GB and 8GB models
- Speakerphone
- Internet
- Works on OSX

The price is 499USD, not sure what it will be in Ireland, or if it will be subsised by the networks over here!