NOTE: iPhones Firmware update 2.1, seems to have gotten rid of the problem. If now only Apple would fix the damn calendar bug

Have you recently sent an email from your beloved iPhone and have it delivered – empty? Then when you look at the sent on your phone you get the lovely: “This message has no content”. Read more »

Going green? Or going neat? Get rid of that paper!

Think of all the bills, invoices, warranty cards, tax refunds and bank statements that you file away, day after day. The problem here is that paper is bulky, and takes up a lot of physical space, especially if you’re an owner of a filing cabinet.

My hope for this task was to achieve a state where I can be light on my feet, Read more »

To add to the ever increasing arsenal of gadgets to never leave at home, comes the BT-1000P GPS Logger.

Having recently purchased the unit, especially for the purpose tagging all the photos for an upcoming trip, I flew away extremely happy, Read more »

It seems that Apple left one thing out of the equation for Safari 3.1 – colour adherence. With my new Dell 2408WFP, I was getting quite stroppy – as no matter how many times I would calibrate it – it would continually not show the correct colours as compared to my MacBook Pro screen [matte] – or so it seemed. I initially posted two photos on DPreview hoping to ascertain some unknown out of the crown. Here is the MacBook Pro screen with the ‘correct’ colour. Read more »

Apple and their quality control leaves to be desired, especially on their last revision of the MacBook Pro’s.

Late last week I purchased the MBP from Apple’s Online store. Thinking about the resale value, I decided to spec up the bottom model. I added: Read more »

This morning, Apple announced the much speculated and predicted MacBook Air. An ultra portable laptop that in the price range sits between the MacBook and the MacBook Pro [that's if you're considering the old decrepit PATA drive, instead of the SSD], otherwise it is the most expensive laptop in the MacBook range. Read more »

It is no secret that Google wants to be ‘the’ company of the millennium and beyond, especially with it [Google] courting medicine. Without a doubt that you will within 10 years see Google as the dominant force in ALL advertising, be it your fridge, washing machine, television and the soon to be supposedly unveiled GPhone.

Although what does this mean for the likes of Apple? Who just recently unveiled the much sought after iPhone. Will the company that lives and breathes innovation and the ‘betterment’ of your personal computer experience come under fire from those at Googleplex?

Google’s strategy is great, and I applaud its flawless execution. They design and develop a great search engine, and with the profits buy their way into each and every foreseeable industry – thus not limiting themselves to the cash-cow that is AdWords. With each acquisition they will ‘Googlify’/tweak it to the users. Where to from here?

The Romsturdamus Predictions:

• Products
  • GPhone
  • GNav [incar navigation]
  • GOOS [Google Online OS - online/web]

• At first it will be the iPhone, and the trampling of the market-share of Apple
• It is always about the actual hardware design as it is about software; at the moment, the TomTom ‘package’ – is simply the best, software and units.
  • Either Google will partner up with TomTom (especially now that most of the maps provided to Google in Europe are owned by TomTom’s recent acquisition of TeleAtlas), or buy them out. Simply doesn’t make sense to have TomTom produce units with Google’s GNav software on it.
• Last but not least, GOS – Google Online Operating System. Sooner or later this too will happen, and what will happen to the incumbents such as Apple and Microsoft?

Google Logo – Google Inc.

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