October 16th, 2012
I’m a little worried. Maybe I should sit down. Catch my breath and think things through a little more. No, it’s no use. I still feel the same. I quite like the new Microsoft tablet. There I said it. I’ll hand my “Apple Fan Club” membership back shall I? Named Surface, it’s a nice little [...]
October 12th, 2012
Ten years ago it was web sites. Every company needed to have one but too often the primary motivation was “me too”. The fear of being left behind had clouded people’s judgement, and the result was ill-thought out sites, with little or no purpose. At times I wonder if the mobile app is in danger [...]
September 5th, 2012
Yesterday I blogged about, well, being a numpty and forgetting the charger for my laptop. Therefore I would be seeing if I could do a normal day’s work armed only with an iPad. Well, the experiment continued today (charger should hopefully be returned tomorrow) and the verdict is in… God I miss my laptop. Whilst [...]
September 4th, 2012
So, yesterday I was giving a talk at The Flooring Show in Harrogate on the importance of digital marketing. As I use Keynote, not PowerPoint, to create my presentations I took along my own trusty MacBook to power my talk. All went swimmingly, plugged in, used my Apple remote to advance the slides, answered some [...]
October 3rd, 2011
If you’re anything like me – which, for your sake, I hope you’re not – you’re a little bit giddy right now. It’s like being an eight year old the night before Christmas: you’re fairly sure there’s going to be a shiny new bike under the tree but you don’t know the precise details. The [...]
July 12th, 2011
Hi there Santa, Yes I know it’s only July and, well yes, it’s true that I’m accelerating towards 40 but if believing in you will ensure I get what I want this Christmas then I’m happy to ignore these facts for a few minutes – if you’re prepared to put your hand into your bountiful sack [...]
June 20th, 2011
You gotta laugh. I’ve just seen an advert for the new BlackBerry PlayBook – you know the one, the self-styled ‘professional’ answer to the iPad. And the song they’ve chosen to soundtrack this advert? “Flash” by Queen. You don’t think this could be a “subtle as a breezeblock” way of reminding people the PlayBook runs [...]
March 29th, 2011
A press conference in Washington, yesterday. Jorge Ramos (news anchor in the US) asks if President Obama owns an iPad. President: “I do have an iPad. I mean, Jorge, I’m the president of the United States. You think I’ve got to go borrow somebody’s computer? Hey, man, can I borrow your computer? How about you? [...]
March 28th, 2011
“Mac OS X is the most important software from Apple since the original Macintosh operating system in 1984 that revolutionised the entire industry.” Steve Jobs, Apple CEO, March 24 2001. I’m getting old. I still think of the introduction of OS X as a “recent” thing, when it’s been with us for a whole decade now. [...]
March 17th, 2011
I’m not a big gamer, I have a Wii and a PlayStation 2 gathering dust somewhere. But even I can sense a shift in the gaming environment. Being (just) the youthful side of 40, I’ve grown up seeing games develop from the stick and square ball of Pong on my Grandstand TV Game 2000 in [...]