Howard Oakley

iPad: British to the core

by Howard Oakley on 18 May 2010 in Help

With its key hardware components designed by UK companies Arm and Imagination, the iPad’s internals are as British as The Archers. Archers addicts, like my wife, will find multimode radios such as Pure’s Evoke Flow a source of eternal joy. Not only do they have a choice of traditional FM and novel DAB broadcasts, but [...]

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The iPad makes the ideal muse

by Howard Oakley on 13 May 2010 in Help

Poised between the iPod and notebooks, the iPad can bring a touch of magic to the eBook market by allowing access to a wide range of content. One of the trickiest calls in painting is deciding how much detail to render. Paint outdoors and this determines whether you take an hour or a few weeks. [...]

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The end of the world is IT

by Howard Oakley on 13 May 2010 in Help

There’s no escaping technology’s impact on our planet, so it’s about time the computer industry stopped its excessive resource consumption. As visual artists started to record their travels through scenery made dramatic by nature or man, so they rendered some into visions of the Apocalypse. Gone were the disturbingly grisly scenes of torment detailed by [...]

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No business like snow business

by Howard Oakley on 13 May 2010 in Help

Recent heavy snow almost ground the UK to a halt, so while the memory is still fresh, we must implement better contingency plans for the future. Much of the time, living in the country is a joy: turning off the lights at night reveals the black shadows of the downs cut out from the glittering [...]

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Nehalem neurosis

by Howard Oakley on 13 May 2010 in Help

Moore’s Law may argue that processors will get ever-more powerful, but until human error is taken out of the equation, this development may stall. Each year, according to their manufacturers, we expect our processors to perform faster. Although I can recall few Mac users explicitly wanting faster CPUs, we keep getting them, thanks to an [...]

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Will lasers light the way?

by Howard Oakley on 13 May 2010 in Help

Online delivery is making optical discs an endangered species, but laser technology will still have a key role to play in home entertainment. Your Mac may be composed of chips, but it takes light to make it work. That light shines not only from the screen in front of your eyes, but from lasers onto [...]

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