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Your panel for the first ever episode of Gaming Corner are Oliver McQuitty and Stu Helm.
Gaming Corner, a joint production between the International Mac Podcast Network and Modern Gaming Studios, provides a relaxed, friendly and often comedic approach to delivering gaming news. No two page long essays on one piece of news, no endless sessions of reading articles word for word, just a few gamers chatting over Skype to share their views on the latest gaming news and highlight their favourite tech and games.
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This week’s show notes, including links to the panel’s picks and all the stories we cover can be found after the break.
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I’ve been a Mac user for nearly four years now, and it’s been a good four years, but at some point we should all just accept the fact that Windows is superior in every way and go back. Let’s be honest, we were all just using Macs because everybody else was using Windows and we wanted to be different, but now a whole bunch of people are using Macs, and it’s become clear that this display of difference is futile. I declare our stupid rebellion from the social norm of Windows officially over, let’s all go to Dell and buy some beige power tower.
We’re always going on about the superior UI, and the UI is superior, but it’s spoiling us for the awful UI of reality. You know how kids who grew up in dirty environments get sick less later in life than the kids who grew up in spotlessly germ-free environments? It’s the same for UI; the easier it is to use your computer, the less prepared you will be for some challenging obstacle to pop up in real life. You can’t zoom out of real life to see all of the windows you’ve got open, and if you want to find something in a pile you can’t just ‘spotlight’ for it. Windows purposefully makes it as difficult as humanly possible to do anything at all with your computer, which strengthens your reflexes for real life. It’s like the UI is exercise equipment for your interaction reflexes. (more…)
This is a companion review for the NosillaCast podcast for RemotePad, an iPhone and iPod touch remote control app.
So, you’ve been buying equipment, enduring the harsh and sometimes often untruthful sales pitches from Best Buy associates, and you’re now setting it up. Your home theater system is starting to look really good, but how to control the Mac mini at the center of it all? RemotePad does that, and it does it well.
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The “Get a Mac” ad campaign (sometimes known as the ‘Mac vs. PC ads’) shown in the U.S has, last month, been named AdWeek’s “campaign of the decade”. In light of this, I have now found an excuse to unveil my personal distaste for Apple’s latest Mac campaign and the people who love it.
Now before I begin, I cannot, and will not deny how successful these advertisements have been for Apple. The fundamental reason why I believe this to be the case has been worded perfectly by AdWeek themselves:
“That series of 60-plus ads brought some humanity into the equation by turning the machines into live-action cartoons. In so doing, the comic spots offer transparent understanding of the aspirations of its audience and how people identify—and connect emotionally—with technology.” (more…)
Note: this post was originally published on my personal blog.
I sat down & worked it out the other day, and I’ve been a ‘switcher in waiting’ for 18 years – give or take a few days… that’s a long time, but I suppose I have spent most of it convincing myself that I ‘didn’t need one’ and they were for ‘Arty’ Types, and they didn’t do ‘Business Stuff’ and a whole heap of the kind of thoughts that Apple turned into reality with the ‘Mac & PC’ ads – both in the USA and over here in the UK.
(if you’ve never seen them a) where HAVE you been? and b) go find them on Youtube when you’re finished here, they’ll make you smile and nod understandingly too…)
So I’d be quietly hankering after a change of computer for ages – but what made me finally take the plunge, you ask? (more…)
