Today, there have been numerous stories on various Australian news sites about Apple blocking Samsung from selling its Galaxy Tab 10.1 for various patent infringements. Of course, the immediate effects for consumers is that they cannot buy the device within the country and businesses such as carriers and technology shops are unable to sell the …
Tag: Apple
Jul 30 2011
Classic Windows Gaming: WinTrek
Just a quick one for tonight (and a bit of nostalgia for me too). Back in school I remember the time when we moved away from our fleet of Apple IIe computers (and a sole Macintosh which the school had won in a Coles shopping docket collection competition) and upgraded to IBM compatible machines (can’t …
Jul 27 2011
Apple Forces eBook Apps to Stop “In App” Purchases
Just a heads up for those of you using iPads and iPhones for eBook reading through apps such as the Kindle, Kobo and Nook apps. If you remember, Apple drew the ire from the user community for wanting to claim 30% of the revenue for in app purchases for media publications including newspaper subscriptions and …
Jul 18 2011
MacOS X and NTFS – Will it Blend?
In the Windows world the best file system to be using is NTFS (New Technology File System), hands down. Compared to legacy FAT file systems (including FAT32) the robustness, reliability and scalability of NTFS is undisputed. However, since NTFS is proprietary to Microsoft it is often incompatible with non-Microsoft platforms such as MacOS X. Of …
Jul 09 2011
Windows Phone 7 and Google’s Artificial Limitation of Multiple Calendars
If you happen to use more than one calendar in Google Mail or your corporate e-mail then you might have realised that Windows Phone 7 only seems to support the primary calendar for some reason over Exchange ActiveSync. This is despite other EAS compatible devices such as the iPhone and iPad having worked with multiple …
Jun 27 2011
Reboot a Stuck iPod Classic or iPod Nano
Here’s a quick tip for tonight. Whilst the latest iPod Touch and iPhone are all the craze there are still plenty of “click wheel” iPod Classic and iPod Nano players out there that are used in the car, as a backup music device or a “hand me down”. Of course, no device is perfect (sorry …
Jun 19 2011
Google Music – An Unexpected Invitation
After I criticised Google for making it difficult for us folks outside of the USA to get into the beta of its new music streaming service I received an invitation to join the Google Music beta. I had also tried the client software on my phone which didn’t go very far even when I was …
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