Search results for: “mac”
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Using terminal.app in macOS
Terminal.app is a way of getting to the Unix underpinnings of Apple’s Mac OS X operating system. It is generally kept out of the way because an uneducated user could do a lot of damage. I have put together eight of my favourite life hacks using Terminal here. Your mileage will vary. Over time Apple has…
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Learning machines discussion
Why learning machines? Simply because I don’t want to get into an argument of what an AI actually is, so hence the title change – but interesting watching. The Churchill Club manage to get top drawer panelists for this session on learning machines Yoshua Bengio, Professor, Department of Computer Science and Operations Research, Universite de…
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Mac vs PC + more news
Microsoft and partners revive Mac vs PC ads — without mentioning Mac – CNET – This is all a bit odd. If you’re going to do a competitive comparison you have to mention the competition. That and the humour was why the Mac vs PC ads worked. Not mentioning them looks like Voldemort like fear in…
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Outlook for Mac + more
Use Outlook for Mac? Don’t upgrade to El Capitan | The Inquirer – yet. It looks like the Microsoft dev team for Outlook for Mac have more work and testing ahead of themselves. Read our lips, no more EU roaming charges* | The Register – surely this would be pre-dictated on their network footprint? Would this mean…
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Macau gaming revenue + more
Macau gaming revenue Macau Gambling Revenue Continues to Drop – WSJ – A little over a year ago, in February 2014, Macau gaming revenue rose 40%. Now it is regularly falling by around that much (paywall) – Macau gaming is alleged to be a vehicle for money laundering. Even if that wasn’t the truth about Macau…
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How to on Mac + more things
How to A couple of Apple related how to articles that deal with some problems that I have been having How To Get Your MacBook To Run A Non-Apple 2560-By-1440 Monitor – I had this problem when speaking a couple of times so good to know How to Enable the “root” Account on Mac OS…
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The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence by Ray Kurzweil
The Age of Spiritual Machines was written by Ray Kurzweil. Kurzweil is a technological rock star, responsible for great music synthesisers and much of the developments around optical character recognition and speech recognition. This is what makes him a good futurist. The fact that he has had his hands dirty. The Age of Spiritual Machines:…
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The Dream Machine by M Mitchel Waldrop
Why did I read The Dream Machine? History is important. It inspires us and it informs us about the present and we can learn about it to shape the future. I was inspired to work in PR for the technology sector by Robert X Cringely’s book Accidential Empires: How the Boys of Silicon Valley Make…
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.mac upgrade
After the devastation that occurred in Florida by hurricanes Charley, Frances, Ivan and Jeanne signs of a long running typhoon struck in Cupertino, California. The effects of the typhoon centred on the marketing department of Apple Computer and its data centre. Following on from the launch of GMail earlier this year, Apple has upped the…