Let’s say the majority of non-geek consumers go out and buy one. This will mean that the AppStore becomes even more popular as developers vie for attention. No bad thing. Variety and choice of software on the Mac was never before a ’situation’ never mind a ‘problem’ but in the scale of things it’s not a bad problem to have.

But my concern is not the non-geek with their cheap iPads. Nor is it the developers who will earn the money to buy ever more powerful multi-core systems with RAM limits high into the double figures of Gigabytes.

It’s those of us who are geek but not developers. We’re not depending on the fruits of the AppStore for our income and the majority of people out there will be using iPads – systems which are limited but more intuitive than the current crop. Crucially they have less ‘problems’.

Will the venerable non-developer IT geek be eventually put out to pasture?
Will the sorts of systems that we like (Powerful, Robust, Multitasking) become the reserve of the developer and we, in our dwindling revenues, will be unable to afford them?

Yes, it’s the apocalypse.

Here goes:

Write something that people want to read.

I know what you are thinking: “woah, what’s the catch?” or “who does this guy think he is, telling me how to do my job? I spammed 10,000 blogs today, and of those links 500 of them are still up, and I am building this awesome link farm.”

But what do I know? Look at all the REALLY HEAVY page-ranked sites, and the ones that appear at the top of all your Google searches. What do they contain?

CONTENT.

When you do a search for yourself (I am not talking about the ones you do for your SEO crap), you put in terms that you think will narrow down the results to something you want to read, and Google is *really good* – most of the time, it gives you the result you want, right on the front page! What the parasitic SEOtards try to do is break that.

So screw you, SEOtards. You want to appear at the top of Google? You write something that people want to read, and there it will be.

(Edited by 23x – this kind of comment spam is how “bethetopofgoogle” will try to promote your site. Good SEO doesn’t require comment spam, fucktard.)

1) they’ve got nothing to do with motorcycle racing.
2) except for texting your mates to fund out if they’re at turn 9 or turn 12. Or the bar.
3) – 10) whatever…

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You are the one talking twaddle. Your link bait should let the swearing happen in the comments – then we can get on to the Nazi later. You have to at least TRY and sound reasonable. And you failed to number your points too.

You know no linkbait like this will work without a whole pile of meaningless rants in the comments. So far you’ve only got one in an hour! Try harder! I mean comments are where inflamatory posts go balistic. The electronic version of the my C64 is better than your Spectrum arguments from the playground. And whats with Auntie Beeb trying to make out it was the Spectrum versus the BBC micro and that somehow they won too?

Good got the obligatory wander off topic in there.

I’m upset. I’m offended. I’m off to BBC’s vent my spleen to leave some random nasty remarks there too.

If you bought the applications, you’ve still got them; they still work. With Private Frameworks, there’s no guarantee they’ll continue to work with the next OS upgrade though, but the developers are free to rework them using legitimate, guaranteed techniques and resubmit them.

Nice project, by the way.

These apps were inspected for months before finally getting through the nebulous App Store approval process. Some have been available for months or even years. Now, arbitrarily, they are banned. If they use API calls that Apple didn’t want them to, why were they approved? Why weren’t the developers contacted behind the scenes to address any fiddly technical issues Apple might foresee?

As users all we see is a useful app, that was paid for, that now can not be updated. We can’t find the least used frequency channels to set our access points to, can’t take surveys of campus wireless coverage or find rogue wifi on a corporate network. And we can’t help with wireless mapping projects. There’s no app for that.

Of note, Apple has reworked its office productivity suite, iWork, for the iPad. Furthermore, the demo highlighted how having a larger touch- screen interface can create all sort of innovations to make using these core applications easier to use. In con…

This pure doozy o’ a pizza was first* conceived by ”*Flames*”, THE ‘All-IN-One’er chippy/Italian/Indian emporium of fast-food goodness in the South-side of Glasvegas.

Only a baw-hair ‘aff o’ bein’ a sheer triumph of Scottish cuisine: It’s genius only diluted by the lack of crispy-battered-deep-fried-artery-raping-heart-disease-inducing layer of NED-nectar! aka:Deep fried golden batter! Yum. Which, I am genuinely convinced has the ability to conquer the world…possibly in the wake of a natural disaster which wipes out most fresh and sustainable food stuffs, bar frozen pizzas!

At the very least- deserving of the honerable title of; ‘Oor National dish’. (Ahh…an idea for my first indubitably factual, yet somewhat factious ‘Facebook campaign’, intended to annoy you enough to join it! ah ha ha)

However, sadly few of the devout ‘Deep fried (crispy) pizza’ fans will live long enough to recite ye’ olde tales of their preternatural brush with culinary perfection:
THE One, The Only (optionally crispy) deep-fried Glaswegian Pizza**

Another little gem of information that I wish to share with you good folks of this highly intelligible, pure top drawer quality ‘find’, of a comments page!

I can put an end to the ‘health issues’ and ‘concerns’, which are considered to encroach upon the otherwise ineffaceable role that the humble pizza plays in our day to day lives:

*** The Pizza Diet? ***

(Insert taken from an actual website: by a self-acclaimed ‘Reliable lifestyle/nutrition ‘internet – Guru!’ (no less))

“As you can guess, with the pizza diet, the main food that you will eat is pizza. You will eat two “main meals” a day. At each meal, you will only eat one slice of pizza. The way that this diet works is by limiting the amount of calories that you eat each day, as well as by limiting your portions to two slices of pizza a day. Of course, it is important to know what constitutes as “pizza.” ”

Ahh, Pray tell oh great Guru …..what DOES constitute as ‘pizza’?….. I hear you all ask!

“You CAN eat pizza from a pizzeria, frozen pizzas, homemade pizzas, or even an English muffin with pizza sauce and melted cheese. Bagel pizzas are not preferable on this diet, as bagels are high in calories. Also, keep in mind that Pizza Hut, Papa John’s, Dominoes, or any other fast food pizza ‘DOES’ constitute as pizza on this diet!!!

(hallelujah! I hear you cry my friends!)

Let me raise some points for all you ‘diet lovers’ and those of us who just love a wee pearl of wisdom every noo an’ then:

* It quite clearly makes NO unfavorable mention of the ‘deep fried pizza’ in the content of this article.

THEREFORE: I conclude with unprecedented confidence that, unjustly deemed “The ‘infamous’ deep-fried pizza” that is in question here:

CAN in FACT, be enjoyed as part of this avant-garde, radical, unparalleled, unrivaled, unsurpassed discovery that is:

“The Pizza Diet” –

(Clinical trials coming to a Scottish town near you in 2010!)

When eaten religiously twice a day; this ‘deeply-fried in saturated-fat Pizza’, can actually HELP you to LOSE weight!!! As long as you abide by this somewhat stringent routine of eating just pizza:

You will soon be ’struttin yer stuff’ doon at Troon beach, in a naughty wee two-piece, whilst being able to feed the whole family for a fiver at the local chippy! Bonus!!

- May I also raise the point that the article did not clarify the exact quantity of ‘a slice’. As a slice of deep-fried pizza goodness, is often found to be one half of a 12inch pizza. I would advise that you rely on your own moral accountability and allegiance to achieving your ultimate goal….to be skinny!! I personally would say that a slice is- as it comes. It would be highly inconvenient and burny on the fingers to try and tear ‘a slice’ from a pizza bound in extremely hot batter!

I hope I have shed a valuable, and, perhaps an atypical light on the hotly contested argument regarding the health issues concerning the ‘deep-fried pizza’. Famed as the quintessential Scottish meal for all who are under the influence of alcohol and needing to ‘line ma stomach’ with something substantial!

As an ulitmate conclusion, (I promise this is it, this time) Scottish eating habbits are renound, the world over, for being bloody awful and a complete joke. We are actually laughed at by developing countries, for our greedy and over-indulgent tendancies to eat ’shitty fastfood!’ Moan’ the Scots…lets sort it oot a bit lads! It’s no that hard.

I would like to add a wee disclamer:
I completely repudiate, and refuse to accept or support the idea of “A Pizza Diet” being of any kind of nutritional benefit to any living entity on this bonny earth. Regretably, I now feel that I have to commensurably deny the validity or authority of any, and/or, all of the above, inebriated and nonsensicle ramblings which are of trivial importance or significance.

I am adament about stressing the importance of the point, that you should not believe the ‘crap’ that is published on these stupid diet websites. It is completely misinformed, misleading and deceptive beyond belief!
Eg. Fresh fruit juice has more sugar in it than coca-cola!

- There are people who will take this ‘fact’ as a verifiable truth; as reality. Concernably, the media too often fails to inform of the obvious and numerous benefits of drinking fruit juice to drinking coke! (I refer to a very popular diet programme that aired in January, full of nonsense!)

One last note: What in the creation of Christ is an “English muffin, with pizza sauce and grated cheese”??? Now, THAT is wrong!!
That wisnae an idea conceived in Scotland…nae doot aboot it!

Over and out- bed time.

It is the perfect non-geeky computer, and as such all the geeks hate it.

Sure you can’t use it for graphic design, hardcore gaming or software development. It’s a computer for everyone else. And frankly that is a huge market. Massive.

And for those complaining about how it’s “just a big iPhone” : one of the things that annoys me sometimes about my iPhone is how small its screen is.

Bring it on.

I suspect both.

Looks like you could remake a single 10″ Munch box into half a dozen nouveau entres and turn a tidy profit at twenty pounds a crack (not including gratuity for discourteous service).

If they get pissy invoice them full whack for both plus wordage. Plus an incrementally increasing late payment fee. Depends on how much of a relationship you want with them in the future too.

Used to work on grauniad pic desk in print and that feels about right to me.

Good luck!