Apple might like the sales of iPhones but the gray market makes it harder to maximise revenue on each sale. I enjoyed this from Wired magazine … iBricking n. What it’s called when Apple’s 1.1.1 system up date detects third-party software and disables an iPhone. By rendering the product useless, Apple punishes disloyal customers – […]
The usual collection of patches and unanswered questions in this months security updates from Microsoft. Another month and there’s more security updates for Office users. In addition there are updates for Vista that are pre-requisites before Service Pack 1 arrives next month. The Office related updates are: Vulnerability in Microsoft Office Could Allow Remote Code […]
A UK company is offering Office 2007 for 5 quid a month Fasthosts, a UK web hosting firm is offering Office 2007 on a subscription basis from £5 (US$1.96) a month , but is it allowed by Microsoft? Under the deal you can subscribe to various types of Office 2007 for immediate use with no […]
Is the Macbook Air really as great as Apple and its devotees tell us? It is amazing how Apple can convince people their stuff is so wonderful, to the extent that reviewers are prepared to brush aside some obvious shortcomings and tactics in their products. And so it is with the new ‘thin’ Mac laptop, […]
Office users should not worry about changes to the Office 2007 formats, but developers need to watch out. If you’ve read some comments about the OOXML (aka Office 2007 document formats) then you might be worried about saving files as docx xlsx etc – while the concerns are justified there’s no cause for panic. Bob […]
