What people aren’t saying about the iPhone

So, it’s not far off now, one of the biggest launches on consumer electronics history.   Yes, I am, of course, talking about the new George Foreman Grill.   Now, you can grill half a donkey in 46 seconds while still retaining 82% of the nutrition and banishing 68% of the fat.   Mmmmm, donkey. […]

Introducing, Interfaces Redone.

I’m proud to announce a new sister site, OakInnovations.net. This site will be the home to interface experiments, musings and madness. If you head on over to the site, you will notice there is already one article up, and there are many more in the works. Forms That Leap Out is the first item to […]

Again with the BBC (Baffling Broadcasting Corporation)

I’ve written about the BBC and their odd website and IT practices before, but this one is just plain strange. I was thinking about heading down to Cornwall over weekend for a few days R & R, so, as you do in the UK’s changeable climate, I wanted to check the weather forecast. So I […]

Has Apple Lost the Plot?

So the WWDC keynote has been and gone, and we’ve seen most of what Leopard has to offer. No great surprises (except for what’s missing perhaps) and a few tidbits about the iPhone and Safari on Windows. I wrote briefly about the Leopard details earlier, but now I’d like to look at the other, non […]

5 Things you may not have noticed about Leopard

I’m sure most of you who are reading this right now have already scoured the keynote coverage from earlier today, trying to seek out every last morsel of information. Well, so have I! Strangely, the real source of information wasn’t on stage, but rather on the apple site. Out of the 300+ new Leopard features […]

New Site Design

We’ve just this very minute launched a new design for the site. I’m hesitant to use the word, but at the moment the design feels very “beta”. I’d still like to do some tweaking but in the spirit of Web 2.0, I thought I’d throw it out to you to play around with. It’s been […]

5 Things you need to know about the FireFox 3 Alpha Build 5

First, a disclaimer. I’m running FireFox version 3.0 Alpha version 5 on an Intel Mac OSX. Your mileage may vary. Right, on to the interesting stuff. I’ve been playing with FireFox version 3.0 Alpha build 5, for a while and just wanted to let you all in on the Alpha experience. The fifth Alpha build […]

5 Ways to get the most out of Spotlight

I remember when Spotlight was a major selling point of OSX. This ability search your entire computer and have the results before you’ve finished typing was very impressive. This ease of use belies the power that lies within Spotlight, it really is a Google for your desktop (as opposed to Google Desktop, which is a […]

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