by taoski on December 10, 2007
Much like receiving rough prison-style anal sex, the thought of getting an iPhone was not very high on my agenda.
Although I am an Apple fan I had not even seeked out the device to play with whilst Mr Spotty Teenager sales assistant at Carphone Whorehouse hovered round me like a priest round his "young flock" - waiting for the weakest to fall, and then pouncing for the kill.
The iPhone is certainly one of those things that is best stayed away from, lest you fall under it's magical spell and succumb to a life of £35 a month contracts and endless "i-monikered" peripheral devices.
But I have seen one. I have touched one. And I want one! My colleague traded his Girlfriend for one and seems much happier as a result. It really does change lives!
It's much better than I even thought. Quicky, zoomy, fadey and most of all, Appley.
As Shakespeare once said… "give me a fucking iPhone for Christmas now… forsooth!"
by taoski on December 6, 2007
It's ugrade week here in the Megatao camp.
Tuesday saw the release of the Xbox 360 "fall dashboard update" which brings DivX and Xvid playback to the console with a host of other new features . Microsoft have even seen sense and allowed the content to be played from USB memory devices and data CDs and DVDs too. If only the 360 wasn't so noisy , it might replace my aging Xbox1 and the perfect Xbox Media Centre app.
Wednesday was "upgrade to Leopard" day!
I have now updated my Macbook to run Leopard , the latest (and greatest) version of the OS X operating system. The upgrade went smoothly without any issues (after I freed up some hard disk space) and I am now taming the beast that is Leopard.
My first impressions are positive. It does seem a little slower to operate - so some more RAM might be on the cards once I have had a good poke around to make sure nothing is stopping it from running properly, but it kept all my settings, preferences and files too!
I had even disabled the OS X Dashboard to give my Macbook a performance boost and it left that disabled after the update too! I have already changed the dock from 3d back to 2d though as it does seem to be a bit of a memory hog.
What will I upgrade next?
I have two more days left in upgrade week…
Well, it's not a giant lizard slaying robot and its not a new religion.
