flop ya mac out » Windows http://flopyamacout.com 'cause computers weren't meant to be hard Tue, 24 Apr 2012 14:23:17 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= 2007-2012 flopyamacout@gmail.com (Daniel and Jason) flopyamacout@gmail.com (Daniel and Jason) Technology 1440 http://flopyamacout.com/images/fymo_artwork(144px)_new.jpg flop ya mac out http://flopyamacout.com 144 144 A proudly Australian show by two Mac fan-boys who discuss all things Apple, with a perspective from Down Under. 'cause computers weren't meant to be hard mac, comedy, iphone, apple, funny, news, computers, macbook Daniel and Jason Daniel and Jason flopyamacout@gmail.com no yes Laptop Hunters: Homeless Frank http://flopyamacout.com/2009/04/laptop-hunters-homeless-frank/ http://flopyamacout.com/2009/04/laptop-hunters-homeless-frank/#comments Wed, 15 Apr 2009 09:48:05 +0000 http://flopyamacout.com/2009/04/15/laptop-hunters-homeless-frank/

Hot off the heels of Dan’s own search for a laptop for under $1000, it appears that Homeless Frank of Landline TV is also on the case.

]]> http://flopyamacout.com/2009/04/laptop-hunters-homeless-frank/feed/ 0 Channel Nine bones the iPhone http://flopyamacout.com/2008/05/channel-nine-bones-the-iphone-on-optus/ http://flopyamacout.com/2008/05/channel-nine-bones-the-iphone-on-optus/#comments Fri, 02 May 2008 09:27:20 +0000 http://flopyamacout.com/2008/05/02/channel-nine-bones-the-iphone-on-optus/ Nine on the ‘Windows iPhone’

Channel Nine this evening ran a story on its 6:00 bulletin claiming that a “leading IT website” has announced that it is “Optus who won the battle to bring Apple’s iPhone to Australia.”

To add insult to injury, the image used by the Microsoft-affiliated Network Nine to compliment the story, depicted an iPhone running Windows XP. This was complete with Bliss background, windows taskbar, and Internet Explorer displaying the Ninemsn.com.au website. Apple’s Mail icon interestingly was been replaced by Parallels, a program used on the Mac to run Windows via a process called virtualisation. Nice.

Investigation shows that Cnet.com.au is the “leading IT website” that Nine is alluding to. Yet the article in question is no more conclusive than any of the other plentiful rumour websites. Cnet claims that “Optus is confirmed to be one of several Australian mobile service providers to be selling Apple’s iPhone.” This certainly isn’t what one might describe as ‘winning the battle’ for the iPhone.

Microsoft owned, Network Nine puts Windows XP on the iPhone.

The Sydney Morning Herald and later, SBS World News also jumped at the Optus story, providing little more details than Cnet, and just like Network Nine, failed to directly link to their source at Cnet.

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I’m just scrubbing the stains out of my pants now.

For such an advanced and supposedly intuitive system, I was genuinely surprised at all that clutter!

Yes, I’m talking about poo stains.

It was certainly very pretty. Very pretty. However the way that it asked me if I ‘really wanted to visit the web address’ that I had just typed in really blew my mind.

And Norton Internet Security is just made for Vista. Its 30px high, screen-wide, glossy yellow “EVERYTHING IS FUCKING OK SO DON’T PANIC” notification bar above all my pages is certainly a real comfort.

No wonder the box shows an anal retentive PC user hugging his computer like there’s no tomorrow.

But hey, at least its staying true to the literal meaning of toolbar.

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