Crumbs, I could understand an app taking fifteen minutes to download if I were installing it on my old Vodafone Android phone using a crappy gprs mobile Internet signal. But this is the latest desktop operating system running on a powerful dual core laptop with a 14mbps broadband connection. Is Microsoft intent on slowing down […]
Windows 8 no longer multi-tasks properly
With Windows 7 I could open up Microsoft Update and get it to discover what updates needed installing whilst I got on with something else. I’ve just tried to check for updates on my Windows 8 laptop and couldn’t ALT-TAB away to another application. What use is a new operating system that actually makes the […]
And the winner is…Android!
Well, after much deliberation, the decision has been made. My mobile phone contract is up for renewal in July which means that I am eligible for an upgrade near the end of April. so for the last few weeks I have been trying to decide what to go for. Would I stick with Nokia, give […]
Windows, Linux, or Mac?
Every year, all I hear is that next year will be the ‘Year of Linux’. This free operating system has a lot to commend it, not least that Apple has chosen to base it’s award winning operating system on it. So, is 2010 the Year of Linux, the year that Linux should start to be […]
The return of the Apricot
I thought I was reading things – my past came flooding back to me. Back in the eighites there were a number of computing icons; Apple, IBM, Atari, Commodore and a name few will remember (unless they’re old hands like me) , the Apricot. Apricot produced stylish computers that worked, most of the time. Take […]