Stephen Hutcheon stole the gag that I'd been patiently devising for weeks... For a place that sells only Macs, there are a lot of windows in the new $15 million Sydney Apple Store. Apparently people are already queuing up for the opening tomorrow night. The fact I'll also be in Sydney's CBD tomorrow night is a complete coincidence. Update: some photos of the new Apple store, and ... Read full entry

Think Apple: It Boosts Creativity Looking at the Apple logo for just 30 milliseconds is more conducive to creative thinking than looking at the IBM logo for the same amount of time. You don't need to be a Mac owner to be a cutting-edge hipster. Turns out just thinking about Apple can make you more creative. That's according to researchers at Duke University and the University of Waterloo, who ... Read full entry

Walking On Air The MacBook has no optical drive. What's the use in that then? As Mike Walsh points out however, that's hardly likely to prove a problem for the online/download it generation. Manufacturers forget that time and again consumers will happily trade resolution and quality for convenience and flexibility. Hence cassette tapes over high fidelity vinyl records, MP3 over CDs, and increasingly - web downloads over DVD. Take a closer ... Read full entry

End of Support for Netscape web browsers. Truly the end of an era, or at least the official end of an era. Netscape was known to many as the thought leader in web browsing, and had developed a number of complementary pieces of software that allowed for a rich suite of internet tools. I still vaguely recall using, for a very brief time, Netscape 0.9. This would possibly have been in ... Read full entry