Tag Archives: Apple
Wk25: Pay Your Money Down – the fear of the Scam App Store.
I am scared to buy Apps. For one really simple reason. In-App purchases. Perhaps I’m being overly paranoid. But so many Apps on the App-Store tell horror stories of fraud and swindle, it’s hard to not be scared. Take the Smurfs. A quite high profile case. It is nothing but a swindle. Bright colours for […]
Wk24: Ten Questions about iCloud from a music fan.
Apple announced, to much fanfare, the iCloud last week. A dynamic way of controlling files across all your devices, all stored on a central server. I’m worried. Apple has really let their music business fall away in recent years. iTunes LP. Ping. They’ve been living on the success of 2005, and have done very little […]
Wk21: iPod Classic – the whiz kid, now the black sheep
Apple was a fancy niche computer brand until they struck gold, somewhat accidentally, with the iPod. Released in 2001, it really broke through when Apple released a Windows-capable version of iTunes in 2003. The iPod hit mainstream. The white headphones. Those TV ads. Then other models came along – nanos and shuffles. Finally, the iPhone […]
Wk19: Wrapped Up in eBooks – the Australian side.
This column is all about trying to write about new ideas. So much writing about digital online, and trying to say something that no one else has said is tough. But this week is an easy one. One big gaping hole that I have seen under-reported, and for Australia, unreported. Why is the Apple iBookstore […]
Wk18: Bandcamp – taking MySpace further
MySpace is in trouble. In the last month or so I have taken my opinion back from “dead” to “slowly dying”. But even right now, it has become a forgotten destination. MySpace leaves a big gap in the market. There were many things good about it. Most of all is the easy way for people […]
Wk16: Up In the Air – the battle for Cloud Computing
Amazon opened up a Pandora’s box a few weeks ago in the US. They offered a “cloud service” to their customers for music. A 5GB (or 20GB with conditions) “locker” where you can upload your music and stream it back to your devices. It opened up a larger debate about the legal issues – what […]
Wk15: Rip It Up – Time to become paperless
Most people I know are generally caring for the environment. They don’t litter, they make some effort to recycle, they care about the planet (Liberal voters aside). But we are nibbling away at the edges when we should have swallowed the problem whole in some areas. The biggest one is paper – and what is […]
Wk 12: I’m So Tired – Digital fatigue and retirement
When I was young, I would program the VCR for my family home. I don’t think this was a rare occurrence. Most kids I know were better than their parents at it. They were old and didn’t understand how these new machines work. Years later, I realised that I didn’t know how to tune a […]
Wk11: Close To You – the open and closed debate, and do we care?
Open source, open platforms, closed ecosystems – seems these terms have been bandied about A LOT of late. They are very technical terms, and very important causes, with plenty of pros and cons on both sides. But what about outside of the technical world? For the music fan, the movie fan, the culturalist – where […]
Wk10: Let’s All Turn On – Loading time woes.
Some people say computers are a waste of time. And they really, really are. – In 2009, I had a job where my computer was very slow. But also, we were trying to be green (ta, Trish), so we did the right thing and we turned off our computers every night (including monitors). So one […]
