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One reason given was our currency is more volatile. It is one of the most traded currencies in the world, probably because it is so pretty. But now that the US$ is in the pits that excuse has to be on the other foot. Because we earn more than you? Well we don't screw our workers as much as you...

Interesting… waffle. I personally knew the distributers for Quark XPress. They were driven spare by the gouging Quark engaged in. They had to pay wholesale, ex despatch, higher than retail in the USA! They also had to pay for all freight, promotional material, training, advertising...

Australia does not have VAT, sales tax nor duties on software, due to the laughingly called Australia-USA Free Trade Agreement. The one where the USA gets to gouge us in exchange for a 10 year delay on removing US tariffs, quotas and bans on Australian products. Australia is closer to the...

Apple is charging way over any applicable taxes and ignores the fact that purchases over the Internet have been tax free anyway. I'm in Australia and our dollar is now worth more than the US dollar, but Apple is charging us over 35-50% more for software, iTunes, Movies and apps. Even if GST...

My 2 really big objections to the Mac App Store and now Apple's Subscriptions is the hefty markup on non-USA customers. Even for material sourced from the user's own country/currency zone. It is just bits & bytes from servers located anywhere. So is purely discriminatory. If Apple makes...

1. Worst house in best street 2. The law is always interpreted according to how much money you have. Apple can always buy its own country and have its own laws. 3. Excuse me just have to attend my Fortune 500 Mac mini server… (off mike: What did I tell you, don't stop fanning it with the...

http://geekadviser.com/2011/02/ibm-blue-gene-q-supercomputer/ Steve Jobs admits mistake and says OK to go back to PPC.

Where's Egypt?

Since I posted this Apple is now Largest Company in the World by market value. Makes Microsoft an even easier buy out. Given that Apple has no presence in the server market, little in the business market and substantially lost what it had in Education, there could be territory to grab. I do...

Given that Apple was allowed by the Anti-trust busters, should it buy out Microsoft and what should it do with it? Financially it is feasible, and could be managed with Apple's and Microsoft's cash reserves. Given Microsoft's poor management and flat earnings, there would be plenty of room...

I gave up on VersionTracker long ago. It was good when it was the only DL site with reviews but then it broke too often and was excessively clumsy to DL material. MacUpdate is close to ideal for me and I also use their MacUpdate Desktop to maintain my software. I spoke to MacUpdate about...

Odd isn't it that Indesign succeeded initially because it was relatively more reasonably priced than Quark XPress. Now the Adobe CS is like a tax on designers. One they are increasingly less able to afford, largely through the efforts of Adobe at eliminating the skills that made them...

The Apple of the 90's did not have a clue what it was doing so it turned every prototype into a final model, in the vain hope the customers would show them what to do. The problem was that by the time any trend shows it is too late. You are always running behind the game. The other problem...

Left or right the dock gets in the way for most graphic design software palettes. The Dock was an awful idea and we are simply stuck with it. I still have an Indigo iMac running OS 8.6 and it is blisteringly fast and productive. OSX has been an unending series of compromises for designers...

Happy to encourage them to add competition to the market. There is very little in this space. The Sony all in one is the best but very expensive.

Does everyone feel that the convenience of the upcoming Mac App Store outweighs the concerns of Apple having almost total control over what you have on your Mac? http://www.macworld.com/article/155120/2010/10/mac_app_store_devil_in_the_details.html

Well given the huge response, I figured I'd just go ahead and warn all the vendors that they could have their stuff back promptly if it didn't work as advertised. I bought a dead cheap 2-for at OfficeWorks. 2 Philips 160EI TFT 40cm monitors, only A$186 for both. I also got an Apple mini-DVI to...

I have an iMac 24" 28Ghz (1Mac,8.1) and want to connect a second palette monitor to the mini DVI port, using a mini DVI to VGA connector. Search Apple's forums shows issues with cursor jumping and wrong resolutions. I really want to run my Adobe CS4 suite with the tabbed palettes on the...

This topic has coincidentally reared its ugly head at Macworld today:

I guess getting down to the practicalities: 1. Suitable computer Are any of the most popular computers capable of being color calibrated. I think most of the backlit iMac screens can be ruled out. That leaves the latest LED models, Mac Mini and Mac Pros or MacBooks with external monitors. 2...