End of Microsoft and the death of Google
Roger McNamee is a pretty interesting character in the digital world and a rare sight in a world filled with 18-year kids on caffeine. Over the years he seems to have got pretty wise to emerging trends and has advised a great many companies successfully. Now in his mid-fifties you might have thought he would [...]
Rotten Apple
Image via CrunchBase Problems setting up an iTunes account for Apple TV Home sharing Your credit card was declined. Please enter valid credit card information In order to use my new Apple TV, I have to obtain an iTunes Store account. Now the fun starts. Initially I attempt to setup the account directly within iTunes [...]
Another 2011 prediction blog post
This is the time of year that everyone and their dog seems to take out the crystal ball out and make sweeping predictions for 2011. Jumping on the bandwagon of making sweeping predictions sounds like a bit of fun, if not taken too seriously so here’s my attempt to list some dead certs that I [...]
New 2010 Mac Air – a quick review
Well, I have to say I’m pretty impressed with the new baby. An eleven inch baby Mac Air arrived yesterday and the initial thoughts are, well, feck me it’s small, light and ultra-sexy (is that allowed?). In fact it’s a good deal smaller than I thought it would be and it actually fits (end-on) into [...]
Intelligent browsing is here
We are starting to see the beginnings of intelligent browsers that are centred around the needs of people and not companies. Apple have released Safari 5.0 and it has a really neat [READER] button at the end of the address bar that quite cleverly turns a advert-loaded web page into a lovely, clean browsing experience. [...]
Size is everything!
In recent years we’ve seen the size of digital displays increase, whether you’re talking about 32″ iMacs or 50″ widescreen TVs. However, it seems that this trend is now in full reverse with the explosion of micro-screen devices, including the market-dominating iPhone/iPod. 2010 is then set to see the growth of much smaller devices, 9″ [...]
Apple overtake Microsoft
I see today that Apple officially overtook Microsoft in terms of Market Capitalisation. Microsoft may still be twice as profitable but it really does mark Apple’s return to the big time. Remember that the key product in this return, iPod, has only been around for a handful of years. Just goes to show that if [...]
First impressions on the iPad
For the most part, Connected are an Apple loving company so there was a lot of excitement among us yesterday as we awaited the arrival of Apple’s latest piece of kit. Despite my initial scepticism when it was announced, my opinion quickly changed and I couldn’t wait to get my hands on it. I had [...]
My week with the Ipad
Over the last month we have been set challenge in the Connected office involving the new Apple Ipad. Basically the challenge is to swap our laptops with the Ipad for a week and see if we can still do the majority of our job on the Ipad and maybe bring extra value by using one. [...]
Time to leave the right-click world?
I think it probably is. Despite starting my computing life in 1981 on an Apple IIe and having occasional contact with odd Apple computing products over the years (anyone remember the Apple Newton) it wasn’t until I bought an early iPod from the US a few years back. Somewhat awestruck with the easy-to-use, impossible to [...]
