The future of social applications such as Facebook is ensued by smartphones. The latest version of Facebook for iPhone is an example. It’s normal to suggest that in the close future, the convergence between the Web and the Mobile will be a reality. The question is: Will there be dedicated applications, or will we need [...]
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Apple follows a very positive trend, with great past and future successes. Why then release a PC browser which is a drop of water in its product line and which could provoke a tsunami among web-surfers?
Look at this screen capture of Safari running under Vista Business. The CSS aren’t functioning properly on most sites… [...]
Your PC reacts to touch, the end of the mouse?
by pascal.rossini on June 12, 2007
Innovations in peripherals have become rare in the PC world. Apart from OS’s there haven’t been many novelties concerning hardware. This will change today with the proliferation of touch technologies such as multitouch, Microsoft Surface or Sensitive Object which will change the way we use our PCs.
A physical or a virtual screen will suffice [...]
Check out this very funny advertising video showing the ancestral PC/MAC war.
I am adding my version by associating an idea of the lifestyle and philosophy surrounding these sacred monsters of the digital world:
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I switched to Vista Enterprise a few weeks ago, and I’m again confronted with the same problems as MAC OS X: much of the software and tools that I use daily don’t yet work with the public version of Windows Vista.
Apart from savage bugs such as file copying which generates errors, the search doesn’t function, [...]
In a way, success is unexplainable
by pascal.rossini on January 12, 2007
Why didn’t Apple manage to overthrow Microsoft which had imposed a barbaric OS called "DOS" in the 80s? By vulgarising the brilliant windows and drop down menus, Apple should have killed off Microsoft in a few weeks by offering an avant-garde operating system, copied by all current OS builders. But that wasn’t to be the [...]