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Monday, 16 January 2012
Futurology 220: Pink planes & spider-silk
Silkworms create super spider webs — Pink WWII spy planes — Impossible crystals from outer space — Chair rocks to create its own light — A new test tells doctors what you're eating — Waves create a glittering glass beach... read more
Saturday, 14 January 2012
Greener cables
Apple going greener with change in cable production — Photo app arrives for the Mac — Adobe offers CS6 upgrade pricing for CS3, CS4 users — Syncing iCloud with Windows Outlook... read more
Friday, 13 January 2012
Apple Event in the Big Apple
Apple Event announced — Six ways to give your Mac a cleaning — Mac sales growing, while US PC market still stagnates — Adobe plugs six critical holes in Reader — Logitech's Cube mouse 'tiny and capable' — FileMaker community... read more
Thursday, 12 January 2012
CEO Cook's salary
Jobs' salary $1, whereas Cook — Foxconn workers stage protest — Games on the Mac in 2012 — New seed of OS X — SSDs improve, increase and cost less and the rise of Thunderbolt peripherals — Snapseed coming to Mac App store... read more
Friday, 06 January 2012
Apple action over Jobs action figure
Apple action over Jobs action figure — Organise and protect your new Apple gear — Apple sales for Asia — iAds hire is an Adobe guy — Logitech gets the jump on CES — Will iWeb live?... read more
Thursday, 05 January 2012
iMac still ascendent
Apple's next earnings call — ePublishing iWork program — iMacs almost one third of all-in-ones... read more
Wednesday, 04 January 2012
Year of the Dragon
Apple Media Event in January? Mac Pro — Macworld's favourite 'Mac gems' of 2011 — Apple shopping event for Asia — Podcast using Mac tools you already have... read more
Monday, 02 January 2012
Futurology 219: Goodbye 2011
New drug could cure everything from colds to HIV — Dutchmen's super flu — Airless wheel returns energy — Alzheimer's response to diet — 4000 pages of Isaac Newton’s personal notebooks — Neanderthal percentage test — Scientists learn the secret of a famous anti-superconductor — Sony's paper battery — Twitter-writing laser gun turns tweets into art — scientific breakthroughs of 2011... read more
Friday, 30 December 2011
End of 2011
End of 2011 site stats and info — Facial recognition... read more
Thursday, 29 December 2011
Apple's 2011
The biggest Apple stories of 2011 — Apple workers' free hoodies — Macworld's guide to cleaning your Mac — Baffled by routers, switches and hubs — Writing pure and simple — Free monthly Mac/iOS magazine in PDF form... read more