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Out of the Box Experience – Mac vs PC

I had to set up a couple of new Sony VAIO laptops for a client recently, and I was amazed at the difference in the Out of Box Experience between a premium PC manufacturer and Apple. No, there's nothing technical...
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Using a 27-inch iMac as an external display

If you want a glorious desktop with two large monitors, it may make sense for you to use two 27" iMacs, with one configured in Target Display Mode. With Target Display mode, you can use your 27-inch iMac with Mac...
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Google Wave Invites…

Email me if you want a Google Wave invite. No, I've still got no idea what on earth Wave is all about (or //ave as Google spell it) but maybe if I invite you, you can tell me...
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Dr. Grordbort’s Rayguns from Weta

Dr. Grordbort has made some beautiful rayguns in the past - hand made at Weta in Kiwiland, very desirable and quite expensive. They're now making some rayguns for the rest of us. They still have the same rad retro styling,...
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Rupert Murdoch vs Google.

I've been following the story that's appeared recently where Murdoch is saying that he will effectively use robots.txt to stop Google from crawling any of his paid content. Like many others, when I first read about it I thought that...
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Adobe Labs – Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3

I've been using Aperture for a number of years now - it was relatively easy to get into it as it's vaguely similar to iPhoto in a lot of ways. I've been hearing lots of good things about Lightroom though...
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