I've just spent the day at Futuresonic, the Urban Festival of Art, Music & Ideas in Manchester. The talks I saw ranged from the unintelligible to the inspiring, but on the whole it was an enjoyable day. I was particularly impressed by Aaron Koblain's talk on data visualisation...

In my last post, I discussed one of the interface changes in Windows 7, with reference (probably too much reference) to a blog post by Paul Thurrott, and I explained how that article wound me up a bit. Today I got incredibly annoyed with an article by the same author...

Microsoft recently released a public beta of Windows 7, which means you or I can go and download the next version of Windows right now and give it a try. This seems like a great opportunity to see what they're up to, so I've had a quick play and I've read some reviews...

The best thing about the iPhone these days is its software model. I've talked in detail before (1, 2, 3, 4) about the device itself, and mentioned the AppStore, but Apple Insider presents (as part of their extensive and pretty good series of posts on the iPhone 3G) a...

These days I use a frightening array of Apple products. Every weekday I use an iPhone, an iMac, a Mac Mini and usually a MacBook. Occasionally at work I have the misfortune to use a Windows PC, and once in a while I have to use a computer which doesn't know who I am...

Very few things irritate me more than people who have no idea what they're talking about mouthing off on the web. And few things entertain me more than their arguments being ripped to pieces by people who have slightly more idea what they're talking about. Don't get me...