Apple

6 April 2006

05:06pm, Thu 6 Apr 06

So, they’ve finally gone and done it – Apple have got Windows XP running on their new Intel Macs. Interesting that this software was only released AFTER a member of the public actually managed to crack their system first… Surely they knew how to do it, but maybe they needed someone else to ‘discover’ the breakthrough so that Mr Gates does not accuse Apple of breaking a copyright. Who knows…

Apple’s ‘Boot Camp’ is a dual-boot solution, but also available today, Parallel’s product, in their words… “empowers users the ability to use Windows, Linux and any other operating system at the same time as Mac OS X, enabling users to enjoy the comfort of their Mac OS X desktop while still being able to use critical applications from other OSes”

Great news for us Mac-o-philes, still having to make sure our websites work in IE6 on a PC!!!

consumer goods

5 April 2006

10:31am, Wed 5 Apr 06

The big British consumer electronics retailer Dixons has announced it will rebrand all its stores to focus on its online shop, Pocket-lint reports. The shops will be rebranded “Currys.digital”.

When will online commerce overtake offline?

Ajax

4 April 2006

12:55pm, Tue 4 Apr 06

It’s all the usual suspects but welcome the Web 2.0 awards and bring on the bubble!

Italy

22 March 2006

06:50am, Wed 22 Mar 06

A useful list for people trying to learn the essentials of Italian:

Italian Slang and Swearwords

14 March 2006

09:42am, Tue 14 Mar 06

You know there are many wondrous things to do with Google Earth, even if you haven’t thought of any. Here’s two sites where they’re being blogged: Google Earth blog and Ogle Earth.

entertainment

10 March 2006

09:50am, Fri 10 Mar 06

According to the report, men spend 172 minutes on the Web daily, women 156, with Londoners and Scots spending the most time online.

usability

27 February 2006

06:03am, Mon 27 Feb 06

Italy, Rome

26 February 2006

05:15am, Sun 26 Feb 06

Bikram Yoga has arrived, at last, in Rome! Via Aurelia 190!

Update: We’ve taken our first class! It’s bilingual, the owners are an Italian/American couple, and very friendly and laid-back.

The price of this friendliness and laid-backness however is that the place itself is not exactly designer chic. We can live with that. The studio is kind of small, but providing classes stay small, that’s just fine too; more personal attention.

Our criticism, and we could be getting Bikram Yoga Roma into trouble here with Mr Choudhoury himself, is that the temperature is not really 40 degrees Celsius. More like 35.

Hotter please.

blogosphere

22 February 2006

09:59am, Wed 22 Feb 06

With customary aplomb, William Safire performs a round-up of the blogging lexicon. “This brief survey—a labor of link love—was conducted by means of blogging. Thanks to the blogerati who shot my query around the Web asking for jargon, a solicitation that N’Gai Croal, technology editor at Newsweek, calls blegging.”

games, mobile, Symbian

21 February 2006

09:16am, Tue 21 Feb 06

It had to happen: Civ for Symbian! Should we be very pleased or concerned for eyesight and sanity?