Neat iTunes + AppleTV tip

> So now iCloud music is on your appleTV... But how to create a playlist to listen to your music on appleTV?
> > Turn on iTunes match for your appleTv and on your iPhone / iTouch
> > Create a Christmas playlist on your iOS device or iTunes which has iTunes match enabled. > > Hey presto it's automagically there on your appleTV too.

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Untitled

Who was the first person to use Control-C as a shortcut?
Moses.

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HP Labs

HP Labs

I spent the day as a guest of HP labs, and nothing symbolises the heartbreaking lost opportunity that is HP more than the number of MacBook Pros I saw there.

The history of HP is the history of the silicon revolution. Does anyone have more firsts: 1966 HP 2116A the worlds first go-anywhere, do-anything computer (although at the size of a large double refrigerator- hardly a portable)
1968 HP 9100A the first 'personal computer'
1972 HP35 the worlds first portable scientific calculator - fits in your shirt pocket
1974 HP 65 the worlds first programmable pocket calculator 1974 the first microcomputer to use DRAM (not magnetic cores)
1977 HP-01 'wrist instrument' a combination watch, calendar and calculator
1980 HP sells its first 'PC' the HP 85
1981 HP12C Financial calculator - the world standard and still sold today
1983 HP150 Touchscreen PC
1991 HP95LX palmtop PC - size of a pocket calculator, power of a desktop PC
1993 HP Omnibook 300- ultra portable PC with extended battery life

Theres nothing on this list, bar the cell phone, that isn't a core feature of the Apple product line - so why are Apple ruling the world and HP appears not to know what or who it is. HP's early success and the engine of its growth was its measurement and medical components business which it sold off in 2000 (hello Agilent). In 2002 it acquires Compaq (who in turn had consumed Digital (DEC) makers of the most powerful mainstream processor chip (the DEC Alpha) and Tandem - makes of the most reliable computers in the world). Where did the Alpha go? Tandem still lives on as HPs NonStop Enterprise Division but have you ever heard of them, ever seen an ad, ever met a salesman?

HP, the story of missed opportunity and a legacy squandered.

M

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Blighty Byte Review: How to Enable Multi-Tasking Guestures in IOS 4.3

Blighty Byte Review: How to Enable Multi-Tasking Guestures in IOS 4.3: "It's easy to enable your iPad with iOS 4.3 to control multi-tasking. You will then be able to: - Pinch for the home Screen - Swipe up to r..."

Still here?

April 19th 2011 is when Skynet was due to go online and become self aware... Look's like we're still here- but did Skynet change its name to Google?

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Drive me to the moon - in your Audi A6

I was just picked up from Malaga  airport by the usual taxi driver, is his Audi A6 estate- I've been travelling with him for years and asked how his car was holding up - I remember him getting it new a few years ago.  It still is spotlessly clean, and drives silently on the motorway.  I was amazed to learn the car has driven over 567,000 kilimeters - thats more than the distance from the earth to the moon! It's never had a problem and only ever needed its regular services and expected consumables.  

Even more amazing, his previous A6 was traded in with more than a million kilometers on the clock!

Vorsprung durch technic indeed!

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