Blog Entries tagged 'hardware'

The importance of future proofing

loweded.wookie@nzmac.com — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 11:00:00 +0100

You may have heard about the new Lotto ticket checkers that are going in around the country that allow customers to check their own tickets. Well I'm involved in the project so if you're in the greater Wellington area and you see a short red head guy with a big sod off drill drilling holes in the counter then that's me. If it's a middle age guy with grey hair then that isn't me.

Anyhow, one thing I've noticed during this project as well as the numerous office mov [...]

I'm going to patent stupid

loweded.wookie@nzmac.com — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 11:00:00 +0100

If you've been reading the news about Apple you'd know that over the last few years Apple has been hit with numerous court cases regarding patent disputes. Apple has in fact settled on some, most notably the Creative case where Creative reckoned it had the patent on the iPod's menu system.

You may remember during the launch of the iPhone Steve Jobs said Apple had patented the hell out of it. It's an interesting situation because up until this Apple hadn't really take [...]

Look mum no media

loweded.wookie@nzmac.com — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 11:00:00 +0100

The MacBook Air is an interesting development. Sure it's been done before but the thing that is interesting more than what the MacBook Air has is what it has left out. The DVD drive.