CGarvey.ie - The personal website of Cathal Garvey

Although, primarily a PC user, I do admire Macs, and have done right through their history.. price is the only thing putting me off right now (it used to be peripheral device support, but that’s more or less sorted).

If you have broadband, it’s well worth a look at the original release of the Mac, back in 1984. There are some links to download it on this blogging site.

It was a huge step in personal computing history, even the most avid (IBM based) PC fans will have to admit that .. and it reminds me so much, of present-day MacWorlds. The audience erupts when the Mac generates a scrolling “M A C I N T O S H” across the screen, it’s amazing to watch.. so stop reading this and go download it!!

So you may, or may not, have noticed that using the RSS feeds that WordPress dynamically generates don’t work in the latest (at time of post) release of Avalaunch. This appears to be because of two things.

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Hot on the tails of the Apple Mac Mini pricing debate, comes HP with Region Coding for printer cartridges… I hope this turns out to be a hoax!!

Slashdot | HP to Region-code Cartridges

So I pressied myself with an iPod Photo a couple of weeks ago. Yes, I am impressed. The click wheel can scroll through hundreds of photos in a second or two, which is the most impressive navigation I’ve seen on small devices. There are lots of cool things about it, but you’ll have read that elsewhere no doubt.

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