There can be no denying that the Get A Mac ads were hugely successful and influential despite what side of the camp you sit on ( Mac or PC ). Of course the series has now been retired but the ads will live on through sites such as YouTube for years to come.

Adweek has compiled the entire series in a single page for your viewing pleasure. Enjoy.

The market for copy-cat iPad like devices is clearly huge and there must be dozens of Taiwanese Electronics companies desperately hacking together their rendition of Apples device, but surely none of them can possibly be a more blatant rip off than this one from EKEN Electronics.

Surely Apples lawyers cannot ignore this one ?

Apple have today released minor updates for iPhone iOS 4 ( 4.0.1 ) and iPad ( 3.2.1 ). The iPhone update introduces slightly amended signal strength algorithm and display though not any apparent fix for the ongoing antenna issue on iPhone 4′s.

The iPad update fixes a number of issues including improved WiFi connectivity and improved reliability of the video out connector in the iPad dock to VGA adapter.

Neither update is likely to set the world on fire especially when iPhone 4 owners are awaiting confirmation of a fix for the antenna issue ( if in fact there is one ) and iPad owners are chomping at the bit for iOS 4.

I’m not entirely sure of the origin of this spoof Apple advert so apologies for not crediting the author but I thought this was too funny to miss.

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Scrumpymacs.co.uk is an online site dedicated to selling secondhand and refurbished Apple hardware in the UK. The offer a range of Macs, displays and accessories at pretty reasonable prices. As an example at the time of writing they have a G5 PowerMac with 1Gb RAM and 80Gb HD for £165. If you are looking for an older Mac and would prefer not to risk eBay then it might be worth checking out their store to see if they have what you want.

Over the coming months before Xmas 2010 NHS staff will be told of changes to the policy on mobile device usage with NHSMail, the NHS private email service based on Microsoft Exchange. The changes are designed to improve the security of the service and to reduce the risk of data loss as a result of mobile devices being lost or stolen.

Key amongst these changes is a reduction in the range of mobile devices that will continue to work with the service. When the policy is fully deployed only devices that fully support Exchange encryption will be able to connect to the service. The supported hardware after December will be Apple iPhone ( 3GS and 4 ), Apple iPad, Windows Mobile 6 and higher, Blackberry with Notifysync and certain Nokia E series mobiles. Noticeable by their absence are any Google Android based devices as the platform does not support the encryption required by the service.

Gruml is a free RSS reader application for Mac OS X that allows you to read news feeds from your Google Reader account. It supports most if not all of the Google Reader functionality such as starred/liked items, shared items, organisation of feeds in folders, followers, search and posting items to social networking sites such as Twitter/Digg/Stumbleupon etc.

The application is laid out in a traditional three pane window arrangement with left hand pane showing folders, the top right pane showing the list of news items from the currently selected news feed/folder and the bottom right pane showing the content of the currently highlighted news item.

Articles of interest can be opened in a new tab by double clicking on the article title, this loads the original web page rather than the condensed RSS form that appears in the preview pane. Alternatively a right click context menu in the preview pane gives the option to Open the article in Safari.

The app is still in beta and the developers are keen for feedback on issues and ideas from their users, either visit the web site http://www.grumlapp.com or send an email to info@grumlapp.com

A large number of UK iPad pre-orders have just been updated with a revised delivery date of tomorrow ( 27th May ), a day earlier than originally expected. TNT have posted status as “Please Call” against orders but phone lines are engaged and according to reports on Twitter callers are waiting 30 minutes to get through. Apparently the update given when callers do get through is that Apple have given the couriers an extra day to get deliveries out due to unprecedented demand which is all good news to those of us waiting for our new toys to be delivered, especially with a Bank Holiday weekend coming up !

Like many others who pre-ordered an iPad on 10th May my order status has just been updated to confirm that my device has now shipped. As much as we all may be hoping for an early delivery I think it is probably being a little too optimistic to imagine that it will arrive before this coming Friday but, hey we can hope can’t we !

Its going to be a long week….

Apologies in advance for the Flash video but I saw this last night and thought it was worth sharing. This video shows a Comcast Remote App for the iPad that is just beautiful and shows one way in which the iPad will become a firm family favourite in the living room.