PC World ahead of the curve?

Well looks like PC World have managed to pull off a bit of a coup – but they’re keeping it a bit quiet. Whilst some have managed to get Windows XP running on the new Intel based Mac’s, PC World have managed to get Mac OS X running on non Apple based kit – at least if their new advert in the UK is anything to go by! The advert I saw on E4 last night shows the PC World website running on the Compaq notebook PC. Their web browser of choice? Apple’s Safari browser! Well at least now they’re admitting OS X is a better operating system to run!!

[composed and posted with ecto]

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Is this me?

Ok, I just read this article TidBITS: From iPod to MacBook Pro: A Switcher’s Tale and it pretty much sounds like me and my view on the whole switching to Apple thing.

I’m not a total mac zealot but I do think that if you’ve thought about switching (and even if you haven’t), get yourself down to an Apple store or a reseller for Apple and have a go on one. I think you’ll be pleasantly surprised. One tip though; forget about Windows and how you have to do things, on the mac if you’re not sure how to do something try the really obvious thing and it usually works exactly like you’d expect.

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Secret GMail account

Wow, another week has flown by, nothing great to report other than I’ve found another rss news reader which I’m trying out. (Endo for anyone who’s interested) plus I’m also trying out WordPress to see the differences between that and Blogger.

Ok, the real reason for this post is just to note that I found out today that anyone who has a googlemail.com account with Google can still claim they have a gmail.com address and use it. I’m sure this isn’t secret at all (all I did was notice the headers of some mails sent to me through googlemail) but it’s good to know, googlemail just doesn’t have the same ring to it as gmail. Maybe, at some point we’ll lose the ability (if Google loses it’s legal battle) but for now it works.

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Titles are the hardest thing to write!

Well another week has shot by, haven’t really done much this week but suffice to say that I’ve been playing around with more apps again and been trying out various RSS readers to see if I can find one I like. At this stage I’m still not sure, I’m torn between Newsfire and NetNewsWire, what I really want is a mix of the two….

Also, I think I’ve decided to forget del.icio.us for now, I’ve found ma.gnolia.com instead which I think I prefer. It was certainly very easy to get bookmarks into it as opposed to del.icio.us where I have to find some other program to do the import. It’s also much nicer to look at, although sometimes it seems a little sluggish. It also has some nice features that del.icio.us doesn’t have, but it’s early days and I’m fickle so maybe by next week I’ll have found another one

My new website at www.elaptics.co.uk is coming along, I’ve got the main template up and running and I’ve decided to use TYPO3 4beta as a bit of an excuse to test it. I’ve had a few problems which I’m still working through, it looks like many extensions are going to need some alterations to work satisfactorily in version 4 at this point though.

[composed and posted with ecto]

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