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The iPad, I Know It’s Magic But I Just Don’t Get It

by Franky Branckaute
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The iPad, I Know It’s Magic But I Just Don’t Get It

Some months ago some guru decided it was time to bombard the world with a new piece of hardware and make our bank account a little lighter. Much lighter. We had to do it, especially Mactards fanboys that we be… but I didn’t. I was tempted and almost raving about the new device and without having held it in my hands I wrote a glorified review 7 Reasons Why Bloggers Should Buy An iPad. But I didn’t. Now times have changed and I’m ready to splurge the cash. Not because I want another dust catcher on my coffee table or a portable device which does not fit in any pair Read more »

London tries to terrify the world with Olympic mascot

by Robin Parrish
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London tries to terrify the world with Olympic mascot

Why does London want to give the world night terrors? What did we ever do to Great Britain? The official mascot of the 2012 Olympic Games in London, Wenlock, is one of the creepiest things I’ve ever seen. I think they tried to appeal to us geeks by tech-ing it up, but it just looks like the angry love child of Leela from Futurama and the liquid metal Terminator. I think he’s about to shoot a beam of energy out of that great big evil eye and make me melt like that Nazi guy in Raiders. I keep hoping it will point that eye someplace else, but it follows me Read more »

Tech & Manners

by Kevin
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Tech & Manners

I was born in Canada, as were my parents. My deepest apologies. Anyways, that meant that I was raised to be super polite. I remember very specifically going to Toys R Us one day, and walking inside the store while my mother waited at the door. I got about 15 feet past the entrance before I noticed my mom was nowhere to be found, so I walked back to her. “Kevin, you open the door for a lady,” my mother said. I argued – something totally convincing from a 7 year old, I’m sure – and she said, “Well I’m not going in until you open the door for me, and Read more »

The influence of Twitter on offline life

by Darice de Cuba
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The influence of Twitter on offline life

The power of Twitter is playing a part of my daily offline life more and more. Stores I frequent here in The Hague have twitter accounts which even though I’m a faithful client they make me go there even more. There is the English only bookshop “The American Book Center” where I like to spend time browsing books. And when they have a discount on all books going on they will tweet about it so I know when I must make sure to go there. I work freelance at home and have twitter running in the back, it only takes a tweet from “Lebkov” about starting the day with a Read more »

Does Apple want to be exclusive, niche again?

by Franky Branckaute
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Does Apple want to be exclusive, niche again?

Claims about Steve Jobs’ health and the decision of the shareholders to re-elect the Apple Board throw a weird shadow on new releases and their _special_ features such as yesterday’s iPod Shuffle update. With every new release it seems as if the actual Apple team decides to develop less and less for Joe Average but once more opts for their own little nice, a nice of hardcore fanboys and adepts.The iPod Shuffle headphones conundrum and choice for the glass screen for the MacBook, as well as the decision to drop FireWire on the MacBook and the solitary position of the 17″ MacBookPro seem a clear message to its userbase. Read more »

Did Microsoft Finally Get Something Right?

by Franky Branckaute
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Did Microsoft Finally Get Something Right?

I don’t particularly follow the mobile phone market unless they are made of Lego blocks, but yesterday I followed the releases over at MWC. Mainly to see what Windows 6.5 would look like and in the hope of more information around the Palm Pre. For once I must admit that the Redmonders finally got something right with WM6.5. The honeycomb setup for the phone’s homepage looks attractive and most of all usable. That must be a first for Microsoft! Even though the background of choice too dark is and Windows Mobile still fugly looks with the humongous status bar and its icons, it certainly looks thousand times better than any Read more »

Why Windows 7 Needs Several Versions, But Not 6

by Franky Branckaute
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Why Windows 7 Needs Several Versions, But Not 6

Much has been said about the 7 different editions Windows 7 will be released in. As usual this was a typical example of bloggers complaining just to complain. Things actually are much simpler and we here at Forever Geek will simplify the choice for you and explain why Windows 7 needs different editions. There are only 3 versions that matter for the consumer And one probable nuisance for most bloggers. Read more »