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Apple’s Christmas Message: the desktop Mac is not dead, far from it

Next year might not be as bad as it is currently. Tim Cook doesn’t reveal any details, but lays down some corporate policy.

December 21, 2016 Macs, Technology

Tyger’s eye: the paintings of William Blake, 10 – Whirlwinds and cars

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The ‘divine whirlwind’ seems distinctive of Blake. This traces its origin, and his development of this visionary image.

December 9, 2016 General, Painting

Watch the other hand: Apple’s evolving input devices

Apple worked a sleight of hand with its Watch: it wasn’t about a watch, but all about a new line of haptic-rich input devices. They’re starting to ship them now.

November 15, 2016 Macs, Technology

The Story in Paintings: Enlightened by science

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Some of the most innovative narrative paintings, they also show the bigger picture of changing ideas and values.

February 17, 2016 General, Painting

Apple Watch on borrowed time

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Is the Watch another symptom of Apple’s growing designomania? Or poised for success?

October 12, 2015 General, Macs, Technology

Zipf’s Law: deep and meaningful?

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Zipf’s law seems very deeply embedded in language, and pervades many utterly non-linguistic data. We still do not understand why.

July 11, 2015 General, Language, Macs, Technology

Purposeful portables

For a few years, I managed to get along without wasting any more money on PDAs and their ilk. Then came the Zaurus, and Dana. But none compared with the Z88.

July 10, 2015 General, Life, Macs, Technology

Ellipsical Orbits

There are times when the computer industry seems to be scripted straight out of David Lynch’s movie, Mulholland Drive.

June 21, 2015 Macs, Technology

Small but Perfectly Formed

Written a year before the first iPhone, 4 years before the iPad: “Sooner or later, Apple will release a product that lies between current iPods and MacBooks.”

June 20, 2015 General, Macs, Technology

My 400th birthday

In my regular commentary written in August 2011, I clocked up my 400th Help section in MacUser. Here is my momentarily smug reflection on that milestone.

May 6, 2015 Macs, Technology

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