* Posts by Jean-Paul

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Mac OS X Lion debuts in July as $29.99 upgrade

Jean-Paul

@Jedidiah - Ofcourse you can

I think you are just demonstrating your lack of understanding on how OSX works. This method of updating is exactly what I use in the country side on our crappy broadband link. My mini doesnloads all the updates, and my Pro, MBP, MBA, iMac all grab their updates from the mini.

Nokia: When pigeons fly home to roast

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It isn't Windows Mobile

It is Windows Phone, there is a huge huge difference.

I think Elop's mistake is that it is taking them so long to get a Nokia based Windows Phone device out. I think the combination would be really really good. But why is it taking so long....

Chinese teen flogs kidney to buy iPad

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WTF?

So what...

he did it (reportedly) out of free will. What is the big deal.

Wave of Trojans breaks over Android

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just wait...

until google flicks their kill switches yet once again and remotely removes the installed software. The fandroids will no doubt say that it is a good thing they have no control over their open. Or wait wasn't that the only advantage of Android?

Apple admits scareware problem, at last

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Malware yes

@AC, I agree social engineering malware that cons people into it it is the same. Never has been any different nor pretended to be difference.

Virus or Trojan quite a different story.

<devil>Just buy your software from the AppStore only and you'll be ok</devil>

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WTF?

Only the stupid ones did

Andrew, only the stupid ones did. Most likely formed by years of Windows use and with little faith.

I've seen it pop up several times and had a good look and laugh for fun. It looks so fake it is beyond believe, not even close to Finder. My wife on her macbook who normally asks about things even saw that thought it was just one of those stupid windows targetting ads and instantly clicked it away. My daughter on her iMac, well that machine is locked down with parental control, but is also clever enough at 8 years old to ask someone else when not certain what they are doing.

But you can't protect against gullable people, I've kicked off several friends from links on social networking sites as they seem to say yes to anything.

It would be nice when the fanboys see this for what it is, it is a con, it is not a system vulnerability. And this is not the first time, anyone want a pirated vesion of iWork?

BT cheerfully admits snooping on customer LANs

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First thing I do...

with any broadband provider is install my own router. Tried it twice in the past but the performance compared to my Fritz!Box is absolutely shocking, and now I've learned it has an additional benefit :-)

IP firm claims ownership of DVD video-menus

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Why go after the publishers?

Also why go after the publishers? They are only making use what is part of the DVD standard and haven't introduced anything new.

Google infringes copyright by displaying and linking to news site content

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Rare jongens die Belgen

Need I say more?

MobileMe drove Steve Jobs to foul-mouthed fury

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At least...

At least mobileme syncs contacts properly unlike Google Contacts, google contacts really doesn't like names that have a pre-fix, are double barrelled, have spaces in the surname and have a postfix. It is trying to be too clever with its single name field to then determine what is what. Really screws over my contacts list and not least my own name.

And then there is the contact photo compressing issues that after years still hasn't been resolved.

And what about the calendaring where is barely supports caldav and then when you have multiple calendars only in a delegated mode. Oh how about setting reminders.

No Google's offering might be free but to me it is not that good, I happily pay for a service that does this stuff well in the cloud and is compliant with standards.

Apple iPad 3 to sport 3D screen a 'dead cert'

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Don't think it is true...

But if it was I like it. I really do like the 3DS and when you adjust it with the slider for your eyes and comfort level it is brilliant.

Glasses free 3D, auto switch to 2D when in portrait mode for reviewing those work documents and contract will be fantastic. Also stereo cameras on the back please, the 3DS has finally got AR to a level where it is fun and useful.

Then finish it off with a pico projector as well please.

The Sandy Bridge Hackintosh

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Thumb Up

Excellent

I did the same early April, but based upon an Asus Sabertooth P67 and Intel i7-2600K with OCZ Vertex 3 SSD as my boot/OS drive.

EVERYTHING (including audio just using multibeast) is working just fine including my 30" Screen and 22" secondary screen running of a XFX HD5870.

A very fast and very stable desktop machine indeed and a fun project to create.

Apple's 'App Store trademark': A farce of Jobsian proportions

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Why don't

Microsoft call theirs an Exe store, I mean after all they don't do (.)app bundles like os x and iOS do. Hmm can't think of any other os where you use .app for their runtime distributed software.

Apple Mac OS X: A decade of Ten

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If Windows 7 was out 10 years ago

I'd probably wouldn't have migrated to a Mac ;-)

Light but interesting piece. Scarily I have that exact same box sitting in my media library and still running on the original Yosemite Mac.

I like OS X though now on Snow Leopard, it has moved on a lot. And Spotlight has made the finder as good as obsolete for me for 'browsing' files. Meta data and search and the integrated browsers from within the applications make it a joy to use. Quick apple+spacebar for me to launch or find any document I require

iPlayer Global iPad app price announced

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So let me get this straight

One of the biggest arguments against the iOS by fandroids is that you can't see the whole web as it doesn't do flash. And now the fandroids complain because their device can't see the flash stream as either you've got a too old device, wrong version of flash, or in my experience flash doesn't actually work that well really if you are all honest. So please make you mind up.

Midnight theft left Vodafone users bereft

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Suresignal

Suresignal comes out of the network 'up north' somewhere. That is why I had great reception this morning at home and got my own network wakeup call at 4:28 when some of our services went down. But unfortunately once in the car and into London it was gone.

It is slowly getting back now but still very patchy despite my phone showing good reception.

Vodafone's network knackered by thieves

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Westminster also affected

I'm in Westminster and also affected. I've got full data capabilities on my phone but no voice/text at all.

The ever so helpful callcentre explained they are doing some essential maintenance, yeah right.

PS. To the person pointing out a single point of failure...That is why some organisations pay for dual bearer services ;-) If you need that, then you pay for it

Antennagate Redux: Consumer Reports condemns Verizon iPhone 4

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@randy

Of course the antenna was redesigned duh. It is a CDMA phone, it requires a different antenna design. So don't be daft in your assumptions.

Big issues in the test lab, yet millions of happy customers, and a few childish anti apple kiddies. Sometimes the consumer is right ;-)

RIM BlackBerry Bold 9780 smartphone

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IMAP Sync

And yet again no mention that the ultimate device is actually rubbish at synching using IMAP protocols. So home computer and mobile device aren't really in sync as it doesn't do 2-way sync. Big huge fail imo for individuals, not a problem for a corporate if they run their mail on Exchange and are willing to buy a BES but a horrid experience for email elsewhere.

Memo to iPad mimics: No one wants a $799 knockoff

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Personal media player

It seem that many are still looking at it from a personal media player perspective with a bit of email and online browsing perspective.

My iPad is the from which I hook up a projector, edit the PowerPoint, do the presentation, create a visio workflow or process prototype. Review and annotate key documents. Update expenses spreadsheet. Share an always on me project plan which I can view anywich way I like.

And also watch a movie on my way home that I bought legally instead of some divx knock off. And sort my emails etc.

My point is, it is about the apps. The android Market, yes I do have a desire hd phone, is severely lacking in serious applications that allows someone to do their job. Please do point me in the direction on how to create/edit visio files, or ms project, or even something as simple as reviewing a PDF and embed the annotations, highlight sections etc. If you can and do by all means vote me down others just think why you do.

I think the rim playbook will work in the corporate world but purely because of the ease of integration with existing bes services and handheld bb devices. Still needs some business grade apps though.

iPhone crashes car stereos, Toyota warns

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In the UK also

I'm in a big dispute with Toyota UK and has been escalated to Toyota Tech EU as I have no end of problems with a number of iOS devices. I also get crashes with an iPod Nano 5G. And not just that the Fujitsu system has other problems as well in which part of the output of the 8 speaker system is hardcoded to be 10dB less than other speakers. And then there is the lack of firewire equipment in the dealer network to do the upgrades on the service ports. It is a mess that Fujitsu system.

Apple clips publishers' wings

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Hmm

I don't really care as an end user, or actually like with Zinio me personally prefers to be able to deal with my magazine subscriptions on the iPad. For now this is between Apple and the Publishers.

However the moment it starts affecting my existing subscriptions and Apps that I paid for already don't work anymore or if I can't load my own content onto it anymore we are in a different ball game.

One to watch but I think there is a bit of detail missing in this story as to why they truly rejected the Sony app since there are many many more that have been selling content within. If they really did this they would alienate an existing user base filled with content they paid for and that I just can't believe is happening.

MSI Windows webpad goes on sale

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Oh dear

some manufacturers really really don't get it do they.

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

Hopes this gets saved as I am happily eating humble pie when this piece of junk ever sells 7.3 million units per quarter.

Malawi poised to outlaw farting

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Better not go there on holiday

I've got wind on the best of days, but if I am not allowed and had a nice goat curry better be careful.

Tablets be DRAMmed – 9 times as much

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Hilarious comments

@AB you are a very funny bastard. I wish I had a lack of demand for my product to such an extend that in the last three months I only sold 7.3 million of them like Apple does with the iPad. I wished I had such a bad lines of products that nobody wanted them that I only make £3.76 billion in profit in the last quarter. I wish that my early adapters 9 months later still go out in millions to buy the products.

And that is just Apple, I couldn't be bothered to look up the stats for Samsung and other companies But gosh if you are right and this is all an epic fail that just imagine what success would have looked like.

HP WebOS tablets won't ship until September?

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Such a shame

Despite being an iPad owner, I've been looking forward to this most. WebOS2 has got fantastic potential but HP seems to be killing it. They need to get it out there. You can't buy the phones in the UK, the tablets now delayed for another 8 months. They may as well not bother.

RIM and Apple will have the professional markets cornered very soon. Sure lots of Android devices but no professional software for them at all, they are just toys with (some) nice over specced hardware. But they will grab the 'cheap' me too consumers no doubt.

Standard smartphone charger to dominate in two years

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So what

I've got USB chargers plugged in around the house, some from apple, some from htc, some unknown brand. I've been charging like that for years with various devices.

I'd rather kept the full size USB plug as it is robust and easy to just shove in, but hey ho. Oh and to the idiots crying about apples prrietary plug. The spec is open, fully accessible by anyone, only requires licensing costs when you want to carry the logo, is fully USB and FireWire and audio/video and remote control compatible, just hook up a different lead to get what you need. Just imagine how bog devices had to be if all of those were separate port?

Mind your own: Scotland unveils privacy principles

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So what is new

What is actually new in those points? They should have been doing those points for years. I am shocked that they haven't been doing pia for example. Amazing how some of the comments here think the scots invented the wheel or something. They are just catching up.

Problem as always is the implementation and assessments that is where these things go wrong.

Brussels quizzes UK on school kiddyprinting

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Typical

Story where there isn't one. Funny though how this appears every so often. Well over a year ago this was being discussed on LBC with a lot of high rate parents phoning in.

The facts are;

1. The "print" is not up to police or border agency standards

2. The "print" is not even stored

3. Yes it gets checked against a hash

4. It was really cheap to implent, must be when you think about and Chinese laptops have them in.

5. Children don't forget their fingers unlike smart cards, cash, etc.

It is a good system and very handy. Brings the queues down as well. Come to think about it I think it should be mandatory for all women of all ages. What is it with them that you can be in a queue for a til for ages, then it is their turn, and only them they start opening their handbag to find a monster of a wallet that has more picture than money and then they fold their notes to store as well then unfold and count the pennies. Fingerprint them all.

EU telecoms to Apple, Google: 'Pay up!"

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1st April?

Is this for real? Is 1st April early?

I've never heard such nonsense before. I guess the liked it better when we paid for the connection but didn't have proper devices to consume it.

Apple Mac Mini with Snow Leopard Server

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@E2

You have no clue what you are on about at all have you.

No health monitoring nor reporting - yup right there built into the server tools including alerting

No remote monitoring - wrong again build into the offering

Warning about pending hardware failure or redundant - sure you have got a point there but if you require that of each server than you are talking about several factors price category difference. No point comparing against such a small price item.

Management interface - sure others do get close but until you've actually used it you just have no idea how well everything works together and besides those openspurce components there are also a number of other services not available elsewhere. If you are happy tinkering, sure build it all yourself. Some people want to get on with their business

Daisy chain FireWire - I agree that seems daft, mine just uses iscsi volumes on my San. Nice flexible storage solution. I just have two cables out the back one for power and one for Ethernet. Granted. Second Ethernet cable would be nice but as a workgroup server that just doesn't matter.

Now the best bit for me is that it is silent and only uses 9.44w at idle and I've never recorded more than 18w under load. That combined with the San running on fan less d510 motherboards with 8 disks it is a very low power silent high solution.

Apple says no to Android-oriented iPad mag

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Calm down calm down

The majority of you lots are hilarious and like a bunch of of woman with a gossip magazine. I think I've only seen a handful reasonable comments.

This so called publisher is playing the oldest trick by crying wolf as he/she gets lots of free publicity for a minor magazine.

There are lots of unix and windows and music and all sorts of magazines. This has nothing to do with android but all to do with what the developer has submitted. But of course that wouldn't be news worthy and just boring would it. So much nicer to cause a stir.

Brits say 'no, no, no' to 3D TV

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I'd buy one if it wasn't

that my 6 year old Pioneer plasma is absolutely fine. I really cannot justify getting rid of it. I've seen a few demos of 3D tv, didn't like the cheap £1000 models but some of the more expensive ones in plasma are stunning.

Two issues I've got with it is that they only come with 2 glasses, how about 4 for a normal average family ;-)

And then the fact you need glasses at all, non-glasses technology is right around the corner available on game consoles and phones already. That combined with my current plasma being just fine I can't see a compelling argument to upgrade at this moment in time.

Windows malware dominates Mac malware detection chart

Jean-Paul

Have you actually used it?

Did you actually use the Sophos software one a Mac? I can't measure a performance impact at all. Yes I am not concerned about my Mac, but I am concerned about what I carry and pass on to me friends and more importantly clients. Which was the point of this article. I found 7 nasties that won't hurt me, but could affect me and my reputation when I pass them on to my Windows friends.

No scaring just common sense.

Samsung's Android tablet: split and eviscerated

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Can't even read a page of A4

You can't even read a full page of A4 comfortably on it, let alone edit and annotate PDF's. So it won't replace paper soon for me.

I've tried this tablet and even web pages require constant zooming in and out which is fine on a phone but what is the point on a tablet. And those that fit it within their pockets, blimey you do have large pockets. For me it would still be in a bag so it is not as portable as one though. However portability is great but if you still can't read what's on the screen without zooming whats the point.

Yes I agree as a video player it is great, the movie I tried looked fantastic. But as just a video player I would rather get an archos then which is at least half the price and does the multi-media thing very well.

Also when using it I noticed lag in quite a few place, very similar to the Samsung Galaxy S phone that I had. I guess if you never had anything better before you don't notice it, but it is definitely there. Did my head in when trying it out.

Samsung plans to smash Android rivals..what about the iPad?

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They are not joking

When they say the tab is a larger version of the galaxy s. I'm experiencing the same kind of lag issues. Great hardware totally crippled by their software implementation. And after six months still not fixed unless you are into the hacking community with custom roms or like to put your apps data space in a tiny 130mb partition.

The tab is just too small to be taken as serious competition, you can even read a full page of a4 on it without zooming constantly. Same for webpages. And if you like novels, well the kindle is perfect for that.

Mac OS X haunted by ghost of Jailbreakme bug

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So you can get hacked when you want to hack your device

Now there is something novel ;-) A bit like that nasty doing the rounds in the iWork version on the Warez sites ;-) Or Rick Ashley appearing when you hacked your iPhone. Ah well play with fire and you can get burned.

Android bugs let attackers install malware without warning

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Hmmm

Googles response is pathetic, 'we advicse users to only install applications they trust' and how are we supposed to do that? Is google saying not to trust their own Market place?

Not so happy with my Desire HD anymore.

iPhones make calls without permission, researcher warns

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Ahem

What is the problem here actually? If anything it should be the Skype app handling the dialogue before just doing what another application tells it to do.

What's next week from this 'security analyst' that you can connect to a an ftp site? Or perhaps use nfs or afp or what ever URL link.

Sometimes a little bit of knowledge can make you look like a fool.

Jobs' Lion to marry Mac OS X and iOS

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No wobbly boobs

Well it is obvious you don't have a MacBook as they all have an accelerometer in it and they already exist.

Me I am mature, I prefer to have lightsaber fights with my MacBook :-)

Android rebellion: How to tame your stupid smartphone

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Couldn't agree more

I had a galaxy s. So much potential but a serious rubbish software implementation. The fastest phone around, but it lags, great super screen, but auto brightness doesn't go high enough in direct sunlight so you have to do it manually. Likewise in darkness, like in bed, it is too bright and have to manually lower it. The gps just never works properly. And even when it was released it was a software version behind.

Sure you can 'fix' some when you enter the hacking community with rooting and custom roms. But I rather not fix a device I just bought, it should work.

Only android phones I recommend are htc legend and desire. The rest just doesn't provide the same experience without a lit of tinkering.

Oh and you pathetic fandroids, if you want to give it out then also be man enough to take.

Sony Ericsson delays X10 Android 2.1 update

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Do they realise

Froyo has been available for months and months now ;-) At this rate it seems only HTC is taking some of the Android phones serious.

Back-to-college 15in Notebooks

Jean-Paul
Jobs Halo

And for the....

Popular children, they get an Macbook Pro ;-)

Retailers price up Samsung 7in Android tablet

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It's better

Hmm yeah right, another keyboard warrior fandroid who compares spec lists. How does one know a device is better when it hasn't even been released yet? I'm not saying it can't be better my point is purely how can you make such a statement without having used the device.

Apple eyes kill switch for jailbroken iPhones

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Unbelievabld

This tech site is getting more and more like a z list celebrity tabloid. All you going so against this and going to android blah blah must be so so dumb and only have selective news memory. Every post in here that aims to balance the debate and actually states fact gets downvoted. How pathetic you lot are you can't handle the truth.

Sure have a rant about apple trying to patent something that has been done beforeany a time. But the rant about the evil control. Yeah right, just look a few month back who actually exercised such a kill switch ;-)

Apple yanks music streamer from App Store

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For once...

I seem to agree with a Register report...come on Grooveshark stop acting like a footballer going down, get your house in order first and pay the moneys that are due....

Google finally pulls Gmail contacts tool into line

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Wow structured name fields

It is unbelievable in the second half of 2010 they have finally introduced structured names fields...Unbelievable, finally those with titles, double barralled names, last names with spaces in, post fixes can write their name and have it synced across multiple devices how it is stated on the birth certificate...

Well done google only about 30 years later than the rest of the industry ;-)

iPhone users get more sex than Android fans

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This is hilarious

Even now the hurds of tinkering nerds are looking at ways to put down the iPhone...Maybe if they focus on their own pathetic lives and stop tinkering they realise there is a world out there ;-)

First SMS Trojan for Android is in the wild

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Just shows

Android is a system for nerdy tinkerers...The majority doesn't want all these questions, can't be bothered doing all that and take responsibility themselves...

I sound like a broken record, but Android's greatest strength the openness and flexibility is also its biggest downfall...

Vodafone upsets customers with upgrade downgrade

Jean-Paul

Love the last paragraph

Describes an android tinker user perfectly. But of course the real tinkerers are already running a custom rom anyway, it does make me wonder who then buys and runs a stock desire from Vodafone. Those who can't afford the one and only proper smart iPhone?

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