July 19, 2009How long can Apple keep getting away with it?

It says something that I wasn’t even surprised when I read this tidbit of news: iTunes blocks rival smartphones. Essentially someone’s come along with a third party product that rivals the iPhone, that has plug-and-play capacity with iTunes. And Apple have blocked it.

“Oh, we don’t test third party applications or hardware, so if they stop working, that’s not our problem,” Apple cry. It strikes me as pretty obvious that this is deliberate.

As a Mac user for almost all of this decade, I’ll just come right out and say this. Apple have been in a steady decline the …

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July 5, 2009A good writer praises his tools

I’m one of those writers who can’t abide clutter. Before I start work, I have to clean up everything around me. Even an untied shoelace distracts me.

There are plenty of exceptions to this of course. Sometimes I love nothing more than grabbing a cup of coffee and writing while I watch the world go by — the busier the cafe the better. I’ve even been known to take my laptop out to the woods and work sitting on an old felled tree. You never know when or where inspiration might strike. Changing your surroundings really can change your frame …

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