An Australian perspective is brought to Apple Matters by Chris Howard, who was an IT Manager in a Windows world until mid-2005 when he was given a surprise reprieve. He believes his unemployment has something to do with suggesting Macs once too often. He now provides freelance IT services and consulting (a euphemism for unemployed). He dreamed for 19 years of owning a Mac, from its launch in 1984 until finally achieving that goal in 2003. His plethora of children wish he’d display that much patience with them! Sometimes he feels like he’s got more kids than a rabbit on fertility drugs, but it’s just that his four happen to be the most energetic kids ever born.
Since becoming a Mac owner, his creativity has blossomed, with successes in writing, music and programming to add to earlier successes as a cartoonist. Being an opinionated git, it was only a matter of time before it was foisted upon a world not ready. Thanks Apple Matters! He can also be read on his own blog, qwertyrash, discussing topics such as blogging, writing, humor and of course, technology.”
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Apple’s Leopard is several months and a few upgrades old now, but some things still aren’t meeting expectations. Although my
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Yesterday I sat down to watch the iPhone Software Roadmap video to see what other gems were hidden within it.
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Recently I had a dream I met Steve Jobs, and he asked me what I thought of my Macs. It
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Having never re-installed MS Office after I upgraded to Leopard, I occasionally find myself needing a Word alternative. The answer,
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As my Mac is in a room not attached to our house, I had setup iChat as an audio-only intercom
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It’s Valentine’s day this week and Apple reminds us it loves us with significant software upgrades to OS X, Aperture,
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Long before I started studying design, I knew Apple knew good design. Or is that Jobs? Most of Apple’s best
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After some four years or so shelling out to Apple for a .Mac account, I’m finally making the commitment to
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For freak’s sake!! Why on earth are people continuing to compare the MacBook Air to the ASUS Eee? It seems
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Excuse me while I just tuck into some humble pie. Yet again, the only thing I seemed to have gotten
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Ah, the curse of the technology sector. Something better is always just around the corner. And for me that is
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A funny thing happened at Tuesday’s MWSF keynote: we didn’t get our annual Apple tax.
An even funnier thing happened
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Much conjecture has sprung up in the Macosphere about what clues might the large banner in the foyer at WWDC
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iLuv have released a DVD player, the iLuv i1055, with a special feature - you can dock your 5G iPod
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With Apple’s move to consistent naming of its computers, we’ve seen the emergence of the MacBook Pro and MacBook.
Rumors
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I surprised myself today. I saw a room full of Macs and my eyes were bugging out of my head
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There has been much conjecture recently that Apple will be phasing out FireWire. It was even said the new iBooks
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I mentioned in my article on Wednesday that it appeared - with the Intel CEO looking very squirmish and somewhat
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Ok. Heaps people don’t like the MacBook name but NO ONE has been able to suggest anything better. So lets
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Sniffing around the spec sheet of the new Intel Macs, I noticed one of my favorite applications, Comic Life, is
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