Posts by AlexN

There are three cable channels that I would watch. - UKTV, History and Discovery. As we had to subscribe to at least two packages (maybe three) to get them, we decidedthat it wasn't worth it. And not long after that, we had digital...

Maybe people misread the headline as "Apple's iMessage and FaceTime offer another significant outrage" .

Quote:Originally Posted by Tallest Skil Quote:Originally Posted by AlexN It was OK for Twitter to crash because that was in 20XX. It's now 2012 and I demand PERFECTION… That's still twenty ex-de-ex, though. Think you mean 200X....

Quote:Originally Posted by Tallest Skil  Remember when Twitter being down was a nearly weekly thing? Talk about growing pains. Apple's suffering them too, just smaller ones. Aaaaaarrrgh! A scandal! A scandal! Woe is me! It was OK...

Looking at the iPad Mini issue, it is sufficiently close to 8 " to make it not a 7 " device. As JeffDM remarked above, it rather fits into a "Goldilocks zone" - which could be said to be defining new category within tablets. Also, there...

I've used a case ever since I dropped my then-almost-new iPhone 3G and shattered its screen, clumsy fool that I am. I've chosen rubberised cases since they absorb shock - and also stop the phone from skating about in front of the...

I got upgrade burnout with Lion, although I must say that 10.7.5 actually seems a lot better than its 10.7 predecessors. I have seen and read nothing to persuade me to install 10.8 as yet. There was a supposed memory leak fix (for Lion...

As a matter of fact, I have to confess that I have been elsewhere in my foci - and that my comment was a bit naïve and half-baked, for which, my apologies. From what I've read so far on AI at least (avoiding some of the sites where lurk...

@anfboymn: "back ordered orders"? That implies - if what you wrote is what you meant - that demand caught Apple by surprise. Better than to be caught with surplus stock (as long as the demand stays there and doesn't bleed off elsewhere,...

Quote:Originally Posted by wizard69 I wouldn't go back to using Linux as a primary desktop machine anytime soon but it is fantastic for servers and things that don't run on the Mac at all (LinuxCNC). I am currently constructing a...