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It seems that Apple, a company previously renowned for making crappy mice (ironic since it popularised the mouse) has finally started to make a good dent in the mouse market. According to AppleInsider:

Apple’s new Magic Mouse helped Apple see a twofold increase in its share of domestic mice sales last month, AppleInsider has learned, garnering the Mac maker a double-digit slice of the market for the first time ever.

This is pretty impressive and shows that consumers appreciate the new mouse. I know I certainly do. It’s now the number 3 mouse manufacturer in the US after Logitech and Microsoft.
[Read AppleInsider | Magic Mouse helps Apple double share of market in 8 weeks]

Check out this amazing footage of a remote controlled USS Enterprise model “flying” around a swimming pool. Simply Amazing.

(via SciFi Wire)

I had my 5D with me when I was home on Christmas Day and took this video of my Sister’s fish tank. It was fairly dark and so I had to shoot at ISO 3200. It came out really well though. Here’s the video and some more details.

Wishing you and yours a Happy Christmas this festive season! Check out this cool sticker I got for my laptop as a present!

Check out this amazing video from You Tube:

Or to put it another way, my 5 things I hope Apple will do in the new year (but probably won’t). I know many of these aren’t very likely but, hey it’s Christmas, I can dream!

1. Release Movies and TV Shows on iTunes here in Ireland (and some other countries too – to be fair !!! )

2. Release a new version of the Apple TV with descent hardware.

3. Blu-Ray for the Mac

4. Open an Apple Store in Ireland (because most existing retailers here are brutal – and that goes for all computers not just Macs)

5. Release a new version of Aperture that makes it worth the wait.

Too much to ask? Probably, but you never know! What are your Christmas wishes for Cupertino ?

One of the things that annoys the life out of me is that frequently technology pundits who have a strong leaning towards Windows will, every time Apple does anything remotely questionable, claim that Apple is getting a free pass and use is the stupid argument that “If Microsoft did anything like this there’d be outrage”. Well, here’s one: it turns out that Microsoft’s new twitter client for Zune HD (as well as having poor performance) is censoring swear words. Apple got a lot of stick from plenty of people on the web for rejecting Apps over censorship, so now that Microsoft is doing something similarly distasteful where’s the outrage we were promised? All we had was “this is stupid but whatever” type reports instead of the usual “this is a travesty” one comes to expect when Apple does anything App related.

If Apple apparently gets a free pass for everything (yet everything it does is lately is attacked for not being open or fair enough and blown considerably out all proportion) and poor Microsoft is (according to some) constantly the butt of unfair attacks, then where’s the massive uproar over this? Seriously, if you believe that premise that Microsoft is so unfairly attacked for perceived injustices to consumers then there should be an equally “unfair” but massive overpowering of rage against the company.