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Six things that say Apple isn’t Apple any more…
Been playing with the new ios6 and it’s made me come to the conclusion that Apple most definitely isn’t the company that it once was – it certainly isn’t computing for the rest of us and what’s replaced it is, I don’t know. But here’s the sort of glitches I’m seeing that in days gone
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New Doctor Who? Yeah, that’ll do…
As Iain beat me to it over at The Thumbcast, I’ll post my thoughts on the new Matt Smith/Stephen Moffat incarnation here. In short: terrible, awful, hellish theme tune, loved everything else. This was actually an elegance in writing to look at…
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Why the iPad could be a nightmare for writers
I’ve written a chunk elsewhere about the implications of the iPad, and while the iBook Store is going to be a large part of it, there’s a couple of questions that arise including how does an unpublished author or an author whose publishers has gone bust get his books online – who will decide what
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Dear Bump 18/1/10: You have ears, so listen to your mum huh?
Dear Bump, there’s not a lot left to know about you. We know your sex and now, according to your mum, you have ears. To which, all I can say is: could you listen to your mum and stop knocking lumps out of her at all hours of the day. I’m starting to think you’ve
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Dear Daughter 18/1/10: Dad trumps Disney
Dear Daughter, you are a little sook but I love you dearly for it. After writing about your love of your inflatable Disney High School Musical bed your mum and I were concerned about you sleeping in it every night – and you certainly didn’t like me reminding you that it was for travel or
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Dear Daughter 14/1/10: If Disney made cardboard boxes you would say they were the best
Sometimes you really surprise me. There you are, with a ridiculous amount of toys from Xmas – there’s stuff you’re still opening (though I never thought Guess Who would have been an early favourite present) and what’s your current favourite? A High School Musical blow-up bed. A bed. You would think you slept on the