Apple is using the Olympics to market it’s Macs and professional image processing software, Aperture, to the press photographers attending. They’ve set up 50 workstations with 30″ Cinema Displays and all the necessary software (Photoshop, Aperture, and more) for the pros to use in the Kodak Photographer’s Center. The set-up is being managed by . . . → Read More: Apple at the Beijing Olympics
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The answer is far too few. For a population of 60 million, it’s sad to see that only 602 people chose to study German at university in 2008 – down from 2288 ten years ago. It’s not only at the higher levels that an interest in foreign languages has declined in the . . . → Read More: How many chose German university courses in the UK in 2008? Andrew Wheeler posted the following list on his blog Very Good Taste a couple of days ago, with these instructions (I don’t usually do these questionnaires, but this one took my fancy. If you think the list of what I’ve eaten and what I wouldn’t eat looks strange, I stopped eating meat about 15 . . . → Read More: What have you tried from this list? How long is a piece of string? … or are Macs more expensive than Windows PCs?` The answer is: it depends. About the same price for a similar specification About double for a basic machine So it depends what your priorities are. But if you are considering buying a new Mac, remember that the . . . → Read More: How long is a piece of string? OK – the Burj Dubai is not completed yet. That’s scheduled for September 2009, at a cost building of three Millau Viaducts. But it has already set a number of records: Tallest structure: over 636 m Building with most floors: 164 Highest vertical concrete pumping: 601 m It actually looks most impressive photographed from . . . → Read More: The world’s tallest building Inditex, based in A Coruña (N. Spain), has overtaken Gap to become the world’s number one fashion retailer. You probably know at least one of their brand names, although I admit I hadn’t realised that all the following stores are part of the Inditex Group: Zara Bershka Pull and Bear Massimo Dutti Stradivarius Not . . . → Read More: Inditex overtakes Gap to become leading fashion retailer Actually, The Times puts a different slant on this article (Why Microsoft and Intel tried to kill the XO $100 laptop), but it is a very interesting account of the problems that Nicholas Negroponte faced and overcame to produce a laptop which at the moment actually costs $188, but which will be cheaper – . . . → Read More: The history of the $100 laptop GMO, a successful American investment fund management group with a good track-record for long-term forecasts has been looking at the property markets in the USA and UK. Their conclusions are not going to cheer up house-owners in those countries, the Economist reports: …By using the ratio of the median house price to the median . . . → Read More: US / UK housing still massively overvalued A couple of days ago del.icio.us reinvented itself and became delicious.com. At the same time, the user interface was reworked and a bug was introduced which prevents the tag suggestions appearing when you add a new site to your delicious bookmarks. The problem is very annoying (not only for me, many users have . . . → Read More: Delicious tag suggestions broken While Germany’s government is still firmly under the control of the automobile lobby, and refuses to implement a general speed limit at all on the Autobahn, the Spanish government is introducing a speed limit of 80 km/hr on its dual carriageways and open roads (and 40 km/hr in towns). I understand that motorways, which . . . → Read More: Spain to introduce 80 km/hr speed limit |
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