It was 56 years ago in 1955 when a boy was born to a single mother (his biological parents did not get married till later). He was raised by his adopted parents and lived in a place which is now known as the Silicon Valley. His name was Steve Jobs. He died yesterday, on the [...]
Have You Got The ‘i’ Factor – iPhone, iPad, iTune, iPod?
by Hanifa on September 23, 2010 in English, Internet, Language, Learning Skills
Is it now perfectly all right for the words iPhone, iPad, iTune, iPod to be spelt with small letters ‘i’ at the beginnning even though they are proper nouns? Notice that in the title “Have You Got The ‘i’ Factor – iPhone, iPad, iTune, iPod?” above, all but a few words begin with the capital [...]
Can Twitter Verified Apple User Please Tweet Up?…The Answer Came
by Hanifa K. Cook on April 25, 2010 in Networking
I am currently using the Twitteriffic application on the iPhone. On Twitter’s site, you will usually notice that some users have ticks on the side of their avatars which says, “Verified Account”. Today, I spotted an account that has an Apple logo. On Jill’s profile, it reads she has 1,947 followers, not a lot compared [...]
中文终于来到你家了! ICANN Approval Of Internationalised Domain Names
by Hanifa K. Cook on November 2, 2009 in Internet, Language, News
What is the buzz this month? ICANN (the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers board) recently approved a new Internationalized Domain Name Fast Track Process. This means people will soon have localised domain endings on website addresses in Hebrew, Mandarin, Arabic or Russian languages. What does that mean in simple plain English please? It [...]
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