Posts by Mick F

NASA promises 'greatly improved' Moon landing footage

New Footage?

I guess they just went back into the studio and filmed it on new cameras.

Opera Software reinvents complete irrelevance

Tried it - binned it

Really not worth the space on my hard drive. Will stick with FireFox.

Opera to take web back to the old days

another sad attempt

to get noticed

iPhone owners are superior beings, says survey

@SkippyBing

You are right sir.

Apple fans targeted by smut-punting malware

@AC 15:11

"There are enough Mac users in the world to induce the writers of viruses and trojan's to target them" - no, there really is not. Less than 10% OS usage is not a lot by any stretch of the imagination. There are more iPhone users than Mac users.

A fully patched Mac was pawned in less than 2 seconds this year, they are not a s safe as many believe and Apple's very slow response to patch means they put their users at an increasingly high risk.

I always use a resident anti-virus and LittleSnitch as minimum on my macs because I don't trust Apple to get security right on their own.

Apple takes Snow Leopard for walk

Don't Ditch The G5

This is a featureless OS Apple is having to almost give away. Wait for the next release and save your money.

iPod poised for multitouch scroll wheel

A new interface as well?

To make all your old iPod accessories redundant in one go. Must be time, it's been nearly a week since they last changed it.

Hackintosher to open US storefront

@Stephen Sherry

Get a life!

Rumor rubberizes iPhone 3.0

@Ty

"Those of you with iPhone envy" - sorry, what planet are you from?

ESA chooses British army officer as astronaut

we're doomed..

..aye doomed!

Still - better than RAF totally screwing it up.

Six months on, Macs still plagued by critical Java vuln

re: People still use Java?

Are people still using Macs?!!!

Microsoft promises summer lovin' for test heads

What loses?

According to Net Applications Apple's OS share is on decrease again and still way off 10% of the market. Unless Apple reduce prices or produce a Netbook I don't see them getting much of a gain.

Sony takes on iPod Touch with Walkman X

Better than iTinCan

But way to expensive.

Fanbois squeal over Mac OS X upgrade

Breaks as it updates - it's Apple!

"Problems after installing the combo update are uncommon." - It crashed two of my machines, I had to use it because the built in updater stalled at about 2%. My Buffalo USB drive has now stopped working.

Apple updates - average @ best!!

Apple releases OS X 10.5.7 update

Installation Problems

I'm afraid the Mac suffers installation problems as well. My 10.5.7 update would not work from the built in updater. I downloaded the standalone update which sent the machine into a spiral of reboots, eventually finishing at the login screen. I will not update my other machines until this one is fully tested.

As stated the updates have a tendency to break something, fingers crossed it is nothing important.

Apple snips Nine Inch Nails app

iPhones 4 iDiots

Only the very stupid would be suckered in by Apple's shit.

Fujitsu LifeBook P8020

FUGLY

I have seen thinner, less bulky desktop machines. They make such butt-ugly kit.

Should really need to consider changing the design team or coming out of the bunker and looking at what the opposition is selling.

Evil Jobs - he's a twat.

O2 starts giving away iPhones

Not a bad idea

if it was a decent phone

Google tosses free texting

Tough

Google have their own phones, why give the iBling users a free ride.

Apple 17in MacBook Pro

Nah

I won't be upgrading. Sealed battery and too expensive.

Slash your way inside Apple's Mac Mini

No need for a Putty Knife

Just use a chain saw.

Fanbois will abandon iPhone for Palm, says Wikisugardaddy

Apps

most people don't "buy" apps. They download rubbish and then never use it.

I am sure as contracts come up a lot of people will switch to pay-as-you-go for the next few years or move on to the next fad.

Apple Mac-sprucing bores fanbois

Lost Cause

Apple's desktop sales were down 38% last year - that gap is about to get a whole lot bigger. Instead or churning out the same crap Apple should actually try asking what people want.

Devil Jobs - there is no icon for Jobs W@nker.

iPhoney nano found, tested in Asia

So much better

than the shit jobs has pushed out

Apple laptop ignites marketing department

Cheap Crap

It probably committed suicide.

Apple's Mac OS X update breaks Perl

What, no Apple bashing yet?

Why pick on minorities?

iPhone and iPod Touch dominate handheld web traffic race

The only sad twats..

..pretending their crap phone is something special. Spent all that money so have to justify it by using it all the time.

EU threatens 'formal action' against UK.gov on Phorm

GO EU

Kill Phorm off forever.

Apple iPhoto gets in your face

more lock-in

Parts of these programs only work on Intel chipsets, they starting the push to force older Mac users to spend on newer machines. Spent a few hours playing with faces and i'm already bored with that. Nothing worth the upgrade money.

Third-gen Apple iPhone in development?

New iPhone

Can't be any worse - can it?

No military mobile bill-waiver from O2 and Virgin

A lot of lost custom

Why are these companies so dumb!!!

Researcher warns of data-snooping bug in Apple's Safari

It just works....

..well, maybe, if it's fully patched and you remember to turn off all the functionality.

First Windows 7 beta puts fresh face on Vista

@b166er

"Now, if only all games developers would code for linux" - there would be no games on a crap OS!

Send old Shuttles to Mars, says Scotty ashes prang man

How about...

..he is the first (probably only) volunteer.

What a loon!

Apple unveils 17in MacBook, iLife tweaks, Tony Bennett

No wonder Steve was not there

I would hide away as well. RIP Expo.

Apple media server rumored for Macworld Expo

You forgot something!!

Built in DRM - knee deep and locking you in to iTunes for the next 1000 years.

Apple wants to swipe your iPhone

What - no fanboys?

...to support Apple in their march to patent the world.

They soon hide away when Apple churn out this sort of crap!

Mac OS 10.5.6 problems? Apple suggests shampoo

@No Problems

"You guys must be doing something wrong." what the hell can you do wrong by selecting "Software Update"!!!!???

It is buggy and Apple have admitted it.

It screwed up big time!

Problems here on MBP, MB & mini. NOT IMPRESSED. All Intel.

Apple update purges 21 security vulns from OS X

@Tim Miller

Read the article - it says that this patches "many of the flaws could possibly be exploited" meaning that the flaws were there in 10.5.5. Which means it was not safe. So not safe out of the box until 10.5.6. But as Apple tell you squat how would you know.

crApple

"Many of the flaws could possibly be exploited to run unauthorized software on a victim's PC" - what happened to the safe out of the box quote these idiots keep going on about?

Appletops may get juice pump

HotBooks

My Mackbook Pro very hot, a lot hotter than the HP I use doing the same job. They need to sort out the heat problem somehow but liquid cooling is not sensible one. The fanboy's will buy it regardless and claim Apple invented the idea.

Supersonic fighters could snuff out hurricanes

Will he pilot it?

I know I wouldn't!!!

Sons of Macintosh - shaking the Apple family tree

iBling for iDiots

@jubtastic1

At the price you pay for the brick sized phone you should not need free apps to make the iPhone work like other phones have been for years. The "locking in" makes it a real crap phone and you can't even change the battery without paying for it to be done officially.

Style over functionality, and not that stylish.

@ Anonymous Coward

"bit silly overlooking mobileme" - is it working this week!!!??? The way things are going I will never have to pay another subscription.

iPhone beats RIM for reliability, sales, consumer favour

A Still Phone

Another article on a crap phone. Still no voice bluetooth, still no cut & paste, still no video, still a crap camera, still no security to talk about - still a toy and nothing more.

Is that another scratch on your iToy?

Apple scotches pre-Xmas Mac desktop revamp rumour

LOL

Apple must be feeling it. Another Tard site has the wonderful first liner "Apple is likely to cut production of its hot-selling iPhone 3G handset by up to 40 percent" - how silly does that sentence read!!??

Vodafone prices up first touchscreen BlackBerry

iPhones for iDiots

@Monkey. Blackberry's are aimed at people you are not attracted to every shiny thing Jobbie throws out the door. The iPhone has the security and appeal of an Icelandic bank.

I'll wait for 5800.

Rocketing iPhone sales drive Apple into phone vendor top ten

Creaming MacTards

"It forecast some 345m phones will ship during Q4" - The G1 sold 1.5m in presales. Nothing special about the toy phone

Windows 7 borrows from OS X, avoids Vista

MacTards

OS X - for people who cannot install a driver without a support call.

Run Mac OS X on a PC

MacTards

"The first, is that being a Mac user, I don't have to think about spyware, adware, malware or viruses."

I love these head in sand comments. I don't think Mac owners know how close they are to the first real OS X virus, when it hits it will hurt - big time. The more people moving to Mac's with this "no-one can hurt me" attitude, the more virus writers will target the OS.