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Surface sold 1 million in 6 months … It will only get better.

I hope so, Apple sold Nearly 20 million in a post holiday quarter

about 19 hours ago on Microsoft recruits Siri to bad-mouth the iPad in new Windows 8 tablet ad 1 reply 4 recommends

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It is common sense

The Surface RT’s been out for like 7 months and still no joy, what’s going to change?

about 19 hours ago on Microsoft recruits Siri to bad-mouth the iPad in new Windows 8 tablet ad 2 replies 3 recommends

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people will opt-out for all in one device aka Win 8 tablet

Thanks, while you’re here can you tell me if Dortmund will beat Bayern at the weekend?

about 19 hours ago on Microsoft recruits Siri to bad-mouth the iPad in new Windows 8 tablet ad 2 replies 3 recommends

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Yup, after a second viewing I realised Microsoft’s pitch is “notifications and Powerpoint”, i.e. stuff a lot of iPad users don’t care about.

about 19 hours ago on Microsoft recruits Siri to bad-mouth the iPad in new Windows 8 tablet ad 1 reply 9 recommends

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Sick Burn != Slander

about 20 hours ago on Microsoft recruits Siri to bad-mouth the iPad in new Windows 8 tablet ad 1 reply 23 recommends

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That was pretty good, still not enough to get me to shell out for an RT tablet though.

about 20 hours ago on Microsoft recruits Siri to bad-mouth the iPad in new Windows 8 tablet ad 4 replies 3 recommends

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2 days ago on Things called One 2 replies 8 recommends

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my problem is the syntax

Have you done any other languages?

7 days ago on Objective-c and iOS 1 reply

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Google’s really milking 4.x version numbers

This isn’t really true phones were on 2.X for like 2 years

2.0 / 2.1 Eclaire
2.2 Froyo
2.3 / 2.3.Adnausium Honeycombe

8 days ago on Android 4.3 confirmed by Google developer website 3 replies 7 recommends

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I tried DoubleTwist during my “dalliances” with Android, it was pretty poor.

13 days ago on iTunes Sync

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no feeling of guilt

The OP pretty much admitted that he pirated Photoshop and my response is pretty much “get Pixelmator or stay with what you have”. I don’t believe in piracy but if he want’s to pirate software he’s an adult and it’s unlikely I can stop him pirating it no matter how “holier-than-though” my response. He asked for advice, I gave it to him.

14 days ago on Anyone considering moving on from Photoshop to Pixelmator?

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I’ve been using Pixelmator for about 6 months now and I can tell you that for the price you get an amazing deal. In the past I’ve used Paintshop Pro, Gimp as well as Photoshop and I’m really happy with it for 90% of cases (I use it primarily for mobile UI design). It’s head and shoulders above GImp which I just found unusable and it’s lightweight like Paintshop Pro (the bloat in Photoshop can be annoying at times) however the are some glaring omissions in terms of features. For instance forget using automatic layer features like drop shadows, if you want anything like that you’ll have to go old-skool and duplicate the layer > black it out > apply gausian blur (oh yeah, it’s got filters for days).

So in summary if you’re an uncompromising power user with no feeling of guilt, a pirated copy of a recent version of Photoshop is a better option, for everyone else Pixelmator wins.

14 days ago on Anyone considering moving on from Photoshop to Pixelmator? 1 reply

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Embrace, extend and extinguish

15 days ago on Microsoft reportedly trying to buy Nook ebook ecosystem for $1 billion 7 replies 7 recommends

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The lag on this thing kills it

True. In my defence, wrote my comment when there was just one paragraph of the story. The real killer for me is no palm rejection, it looks promising but I just can’t fux with this stylus in it’s current state.

17 days ago on Adobe announces first hardware, the Project Mighty smart stylus and Napoleon ruler 1 reply 2 recommends

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Ok Adobe, I’m listening…

17 days ago on Adobe announces first hardware, the Project Mighty smart stylus and Napoleon ruler 2 replies 28 recommends