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Apple Mac Book Air vs. IBM – makes sense

I know, but it’s true.

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VAIO TZ31VN/X unboxing


Man, I am so happy!

I wasn’t looking forward to running Vista, although I know I will have to swap soon I was over the moon to discover Windows XP sp2 CDROM was also included in the box!

It’s true I’ll have to boot up in Vista and create some recovery CD’s so I’ll have a play and then decide if I’ll put XP on it…

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iPod Touch

Well, a busy day; mainly getting postal stuff to send some eBay sales to their new owners, and I always forget to add package costs to the final value – D’oh!

Want to pop into Sutton on Sunday to see if I can track down a new CD (MOS: The Rush), wasn’t going to pay £15 for it in Zavvi.

Give you an update later…

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I don’t understand…

… and it bugs me.

Well those who know me know I understand how technology works, or the principles, but this one has me stumped.

Apple released the same applications (almost) for the iPod Touch that are on the iPhone. Here's the crunch, on Google Maps on both the iPhone and Touch is a "Locate me" button which on the iPhone checks it's nearest mobile cell and then shows where you are on a map; no problem – I understand how this works. On the Touch it works equally well although it only has WIFI access. When I tried it at home I though it was doing something sneaky like checking the contacts to see where my home was, but on the way to work I attached to a number of unsecured WIFI AP's and still it was able to find me. I'm in Croydon at the moment connected to "theCloud.net" and it correctly identified my location. The freaky thing is it's acurate down to 2-300yrds better than the mobile cell method!

Help me figure this out, answers on a postcard please….

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Speed:: About bloody time!!

Well, after the nation broadband outage earlier this week it’s good to have the connection back up and running again.

Performed a speedtest (at htttp://www.speedtest.net ) and I’m glad to say that for once I’m getting the speed that I’m actually paying for..

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If fact over the past 40 test’s its the fastest!

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Can I go faster…?

Finally got upgraded to 20M connection…

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iPhone, ready or not.

Apple are releasing the iPhone in the States in a couple of days, expect to see it featured quite a lot in the news. It is very swish, and it really is very different to anything else on the market. It's true there are a few imitations such as the "Prada", and the new "HTC Touch" but it's only skin deep. The iPhone runs Apples OS X operating system – tweaked.

If you want to see the features check out this video, it's 20 minutes but I've watched it and it's very interesting.

http://www.apple.com/iphone/usingiphone/guidedtour.html

Iphone

it's the iPhone, yes it's new,
yes it's from Apple,
and yes I think it's great!

Shame it doesn't connect to
Exchange via push

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Smoking…

Just waiting to be upgraded to 20MB connection

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Arriving at a table near you soon – the future

Microsoft Surface

… and the sell…

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Google Maps – on your mobile!

Wow, this is really cool all the features of it’s big brother and step by step directions. Check out the video, and download it here

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bit of a naff video below…

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