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May 30, 2007

Microsoft Surface

At last Microsoft comes up with something interesting - Surface

April 12, 2007

Digital Creatures

An interesting slideshow by Gary Stasiuk on constructing 3D forms that interact with each other within a 3D space using Flash - Digital Creatures

October 30, 2006

Touch screen interface

Jeff Han shows off a fascinating touch screen interface reminiscent of Minority Report.

October 13, 2006

Virtusphere

How do you stop yourself from falling over the real furniture or bumping into real walls when moving around a virtual space? Virtusphere

July 06, 2006

Top 10 most beautiful OS X apps

Phill Ryu looks at some of the most 'beautiful' mac OS X applications

May 31, 2006

How to back up your Mac

Something usually not thought about until it is too late - how to back up your Mac

March 07, 2006

Spore

New simulation game called 'Spore'

February 07, 2006

McVideogame

An addictive game that allows you to play running one of the worlds biggest fast food companies - McDonalds

January 18, 2006

iMac intel

Ars Technica review the latest offering from Apple - the iMac with an intel processor

December 16, 2005

Mac productivity boosters

Macworld list their top 6 productivity boosting applications

December 12, 2005

Google Earth for Mac

Google have released their Beta version of Google Earth for the Mac

November 25, 2005

USB powered keyboard vac

If your keyboard is starting to get a little icky then this usb powered keyboard vacuum could be just what you are looking for.

CoverBuddy

A great little application to use with iTunes. Giving you the ability to browse your music collection by cover art. If you have a wireless set up and a PSP CoverBuddy can turn your PSP into a remote control for your iTunes music collection.

November 17, 2005

Computer gaming addictive like drugs

Sabine Grüsser and Ralf Thalemann from the Charité University Medicine Berlin, in Germany have found similarities between drug addicts and heavy players of computer games.

"...excessive computer game players showed classic signs of craving when they were presented with freeze-frames from some of their favourite games – they desperately wanted to play, expected to feel better once they did, and fully intended to indulge again as soon as possible."

September 21, 2005

Loebner Prize

A British Programmer, Rollo Carpenter has just won the Loebner prize. The prize is held each year to determine which computer chat program is capable of responses most like that of a human being. Here are the chat transcripts from the competition and an article on vnunet

August 23, 2005

Essential Mac Freeware

If you're looking for legal free Mac software - then here is a great list.

August 16, 2005

3D browser

NTT are releasing their 3D space browser in October

August 09, 2005

Macromedia drops Freehand

Software producer has released their upgrade to Macromedia Studio with Macromedia Studio 8 - sans Freehand.

August 05, 2005

Removing Dashboard

If you use OSX.4 and you're worried about the amount of Ram the new Dashboard feature uses but you don't know how to turn it off - then here is the answer

August 01, 2005

Social Engineering

Getting information out of a person is a simple trick - if you know how. Computer hackers now see it as the way to get into your system.

July 19, 2005

The Inbox Makeover

If you need help with keeping track of your emails then try these tips from Macworld

May 06, 2005

History of the GUI

ARS Technica have a look at the history of the graphical user interface for computers

April 22, 2005

Microsoft v Google

When Bill Gates saw that Google were hiring staff that matched the same criteria Microsoft used, he got worried. Now it looks like Google has moved from 'Search' to 'Software' and Bill Gates sees them as serious competition.

April 20, 2005

120gb drive for laptops

Seagate have just released what it claims is the world's highest capacity hard drive for notebook computers

April 19, 2005

Adobe buys Macromedia

For an all-stock transaction valued at approximately $3.4 billion.

April 15, 2005

Fight world hunger

The United Nations have released a free game for Mac and PC called Food Force - the goal is to stop world hunger.

March 30, 2005

What's next for Apple?

Business2 have a good look at the iPod and future possible business decisions Apple may use to gain leverage off it's huge success.

March 09, 2005

MYSQL admin for OSX

A free admin utility for your MYSQL database

March 02, 2005

120GB laptop hardrive

Fujitsu have just started initial production on a 120gb drive for laptops

February 21, 2005

Mac Mini

Some nice new peripherals for the new Mac Mini

January 27, 2005

Motionscript

Using expressions and scripts to create motion in After Effects (including random motion)

January 23, 2005

Apple Movie Distribution

An article over at I, Cringely suggests Apple intends to distribute movies via it's new operating system, the Mac Mini and iTunes

January 20, 2005

Wi Fi security

A introductory article on keeping your home wi fi network safe

OSX on a pocket PC

This wired article has an interesting way to access your Mac via a wireless network on a PDA

January 12, 2005

New from Apple

The Mac mini, iPod Shuffle and iWork

December 01, 2004

Computer Security

If you want to have a secure PC - don't use Windows. USAToday ran a test with six 'honeypot' computers running different operating systems - the Mac running OSX was not compromised.

November 29, 2004

Mobile gaming in India

Is taking off among the technically savvy in India.

November 23, 2004

Complexification

Using algorythms to create interesting patterns and images

Ovolab Phlink

A great phone application for personalising phone messages and much much more

November 16, 2004

Heavy Computer use linked to Glaucoma

Japanese doctors have studied the sight of over 10,000 Japanese workers and found an increased chance of Glaucoma with heavy computer use

November 15, 2004

Using Bit torrent with RSS

Now you will never miss your favourite TV programs

November 09, 2004

Delicious Library

A great MacOSX application for documenting your library of books, cds, DVD's etc.

November 04, 2004

Phishing

A new scam where a website takes over your web browser without you knowing has surfaced. If you use a browser with tabbed browsing - take note

Mac OSX

London based analysts mi2g have undertaken a 12 month study of computer operating system security and Mac 0SX came out on top