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With the first preview of the new Mac operating system, Leopard, this week at the WWDC07, I was wondering if any of you Wi... Win... Windoze users have upgraded to Vista. I have used it several times when installing internet for customers. In my honest opinion (snigger) it seems to be catching up with OS X Tiger for the Mac. Which is a step forward, except for the fact that OS X Tiger has been out for ages, (April 29th 2005). And with Leopard set to be launched in October, it pushes the Mac further ahead of its competition. If you are wondering what you are all missing out on you can check out the keynote speech from Apple CEO, Steve Jobs here.

My favourite new features that I'm anticipating are Time Machine and Spaces.

Time Machine backs up your whole computer on an external hard drive with a single click of your mouse. Thats it. One click, whole computer backed up forever. Any time something changes on your computer it automatically gets backed up. Even when you delete something it is still saved, which is awesome if you're like me and delete files or move files around and can't find them again. Just launch Time Machine and actually go back through time until you find the file that you were looking for. Then another single click and that file is restored back on your computer. I am getting a 1TB (1 terabyte = 1000 Gigabytes) external hard drive soon which will be networked through my house, to all my computers through my new Airport Extreme Base Station, so there will be no storage complications.

The other new feature is Spaces. Breaking it down to its basics, it gives you four active desktops. This frees up your desktop from having many windows open at the same time. OS X already features an app that I use a lot called Expose, which shrinks all open windows so that you can see them all and click on the window that you want to use. Then when you click on it, it comes to the front. This is particularly good if the windows you have are either all at fullscreen or smaller than some others. With Spaces you have for desktops with which you can create sub-work stations. One screen for web apps, one for iPhoto and related apps, one for gaming, etc. Fully customizable just drag and drop apps to each space or from one space to another.

As a side note, when I was writing this I needed to spell terabyte correctly and looked it up at wikipedia. A gigabyte is a thousand bytes. A terabyte is a trillion bytes. The next step up from a terabyte is petabyte which is a quadrillion bytes. A quintillion bytes is called a exabyte. A zettabyte is sextillion bytes and the highest measurement of bytes is a yottabyte, a septillion bytes. As of 2006 according to the article on wikipedia the combined capacity of all the computers in the world is 161 exabytes pushing up to 988 exabytes by 2010. In ten years from now the amount of online data is expected to approach a yottabyte and 3/4 of that will still be porn!

Also, during the keynote speech Steve announced enhancements to Macs native web browser, Safari. In an independent benchmark test matching the top three browsers, Internet Explorer, Firefox and Safari, against each other by downloading a preset list of web pages, it was proven that IE7 is the slowest followed by Firefox and the fastest being Safari. Safari was actually twice as fast as IE7 and and 1.6 times faster than Firefox. Well you lucky lucky people. Safari 2.0 is now available for Windows PCs. Just get a Mac and be done with it... you won't regret it.

One last thing to point out to any of you who are thinking of upgrading to Vista. Please watch this first. Vista has six different versions starting from 99.95 for the basic version up to 259.95 for the Ultimate version. Leopard costs 129.95 thats its. One version that does everything. I'll let you all go and cry now!

At last...

Well I have finally received some photos from a visitor to display on here and share with the world... well the half dozen or so people that actually view this web site lol. My cousin Ian went to a special promotion with a PA from two popular snooker players. Jimmy "whirlwind" White and Alex "drunk wife beater" (allegedly) Higgins where great players in their day.


Jimmy White putting on his "I'll smile cos I have to, now get this freak away from me" smile.


Is this stalker still here? Security!!!



Alex "friar tick" Higgins signing an autograph... or a restraining order.