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I have been known as a bit of an Apple fan boy in the past, as I am a massive fan of the software, which I think is hands down better than anything on the Windows platform. Now I am working, I thought it was time to buy myself a new laptop, as my current Macbook has seen better days. But when I looked at the newly released Macbook, it made me think. The newly released white Macbook, has gone up from £700 to £800, which is a bold move to make as we are in the middle of a recession and seeing that average prices on laptops have gone down from £600 to £300 in recent years.
This overpricing of hardware, is known as the Apple Tax. Apple tries to make it impossible to install their OS (OSX) onto other vendor’s hardware. But there are groups that are working on hacking the software to work on any hardware. These computers are called Hackintoshes. The first main stream hackintosh device, was the Dell Mini 9, which I know friends have successfully installed Mac OSX on. Since then a number of netbooks have been hacked to run Mac OSX. In my research for this post, I found an impressively detailed compatibility chart for hackintoshs. With this number of netbooks being able to run Mac OSX, the question has to be asked, how does the Macbook shape up to other laptops. Below is a table comparing the Macbook to one of the more expensive netbooks in the compatibility charts.
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I have been noted in saying that I love my iPod touch. It has been an extremely useful tool for me as a student to have portable computer in my pocket. I have a second generation iPod touch and recently they update the software version 3.0, which cost £5.99. But once I installed the update, I was extremely disappointed. It added many new features, such as copy and paste, but didn’t fix problems with the device that already exists. What follows is a list of a couple of features that were missing in the update that I would have liked to see on the iPod Touch (not iPhone).
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With many of my friends, either traveling lot or at University, it is not always easy to get to a TV set. But most people have a laptop with them at all times(or is that just me) so is there a way of using the screen and the internet to catch-up on what I missed. This is a question I am asked all that time and the answer is yes. More than ever, more companies are putting their programming online. All five main channels in the UK are doing this. Here are some of the best and how to get them.
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As the internet changes from mainly text based content to rich media such larger images and flash videos, it is getting harder to view it all this within your browser. In comes Piclens, a browser pluggin for Firefox, Internet Explorer and Safari. This simple piece of software changes the way we ingest media from the internet. PicLens instantly transforms your browser into a full-screen, 3D experience for viewing images and video on the web. It collects all the images or videos on a supported web site and allows you to scroll through them in a wonderful 3D slideshow.
It doesn’t work on every site, which is a bummer, the site has to go out of it’s way to support it but some sites but the most important sites like Facebook, Flickr and Google images. It works extremely with Flickr and Facebook, it is not only does it do a slideshow of all the images on the current page, but all the images in the current album. When looking for an image for a night out, now all I need to do is scroll through the whole album using my mouse. The best bit it that it works with Youtube as well, so you are easierly browser through videos. Best of all on Youtube, becuase it is not reloading adverts and comments on the page, when you view a new video it is so much faster to stream the video.
This is a message to all the jerks of the world that think that is a good idea to hack and spam other people’s sites. You know what it is people like you that make the internet crap and not a fun place to be on. I am really sick of the muppets out there that think that spam really works. I am really an sick of checking my inbox and finding nothing spam, that I would never click on ever. How many people out there really would trust an email from a stranger telling them stock advice. Who really buys pills to make the manhood bigger anyways. I am also sick the bots that think that it is clever to write pointless comments on my blogs. It is not a big problem with this site, but hate those people that turn the internet is a rubbish tip
Every time I write a blog on here, I always feel guilty for not having the time to write more on this blog. In truth I have too much going on in my life at the moment to keep a truly up to date blog. I also find that lots of the things I want to blog about feel a bit pointless. There are so many blogs out there, so what is the point of rewriting stuff that someone has already written like so many others. As I am keeping myself so busy, what have I been doing?
Well of course, I have had university work to do; I am working on my second year of my degree at the moment so I have had lots to do there. I created a couple of pieces of work that I was extremely proud of. For one of modules, I had to write a Java program which was a massive undertaking. The Java program was a simple piece of network mapping software. It worked out amazing; I can’t say I have been more proud of anything, work wise, than this. Check out a screenshot of it in action on my Flickr account.
Normally I don’t write posts on my web site personal site about computers, I have another blog called ComputingCorner for that but this time, I don’t feel like I can help myself. For Christmas I was lucky enough to get myself a brand new Macbook and I most admit that I love this thing. As a person that does computing and a little web designing this thing is prefect. It really has changed my life at University to have a working laptop in my lectures. The only thing that I have not enjoyed about this wonderful computer is the number of people that talk to me about it. I can’t seem to get it out of my bag without someone wanting to explain why their laptop is better. I am really am sick of it. The number of people that talk rubbish about Apple’s computers, is amazing. Some of these people have shocked me with what they think you can’t do or just sillyness. For example, you guy told me that you can not print on a Mac. I am sorry but WHAT! I have installed three printers on my macbook and have not had a single problem with any of them. In fact it was easier than installing a print on Windows. I have also heard that Macs are really slow, which is the stupidest thing I have ever heard as my macbook boots and runs faster than most high end Windows laptops.
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After completely my first year of uni I decided to treat myself to a brand new Xbox 360. This decision didn’t come lightly, as the console cost as much £250 and games nearly £50. But as many of my friends had already got them, I decided to give it a go. I have had it nearly two months now and I must admit that I am completely hooked. I don’t know what it is about the thing but I can’t seem to put down the controller and playing. I got a really good deal on Play.com which also ment the console came with another wireless controller and three games best game of the time, Gears of war and PGR 3. It also came with Xbox LIVE Arcade Unplugged. I love Gears of War, parts of it a simply great to look at. But oddly some of the funniest games are the xbox live arcade which had mini downloadable games like Pac-man. Why this funny is that the xbox 360 is an extremely advanced piece of kit, with 4 proccessors and people are playing 20 year old arcade games on them. The best arcade game that I have played is called Hexic HD. It comes free with the console and I must admit I am still playing it months on. It is a puzzle game from Alexey Pajitnov, the original creator of Tetris and it is as adictive.
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