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Who’d be an Apple developer…
Friday, February 12th, 2010Interesting post about the iBooks software that comes with the forthcoming iPad. If you get successful in software development on Apple devices beware! Share this Post[?]
Awesome incredible and fantastic!
Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010Fascinating adjectival view of the recent iPad presentation by Steve and the crew. A good example of how suitable language can elicit the adoration of a worshiping throng….. Share this Post[?]
Cracks in the tablet?
Saturday, January 30th, 2010Having been in active conversation with my Mac loving friend Andy whilst the announcement was being made from heaven on Wednesday about the iPad I’ve already, for myself, had some fairly considerable reservations about the device. Hearing that latter day Moses announce about the web browsing experience on the iPad being "the best Web experience [...]
Windows 7 on a Mac officially works (at last…..)
Sunday, January 24th, 2010So finally Apple succumbed and issued Bootcamp 3.1 to enable Windows 7 users to officially run Windows 7 on their Macs. My only problem when installing was having to uninstall Live Mesh as the Remote Desktop element blocked Boot camp’s installer and caused it to crash. Now I seem to have a sensibly behaving track [...]
MacBook Pro upgrade to Momentus disk
Tuesday, January 19th, 2010Time for some geekiness I’m afraid. Because I have subdivided my laptop disk in two to house both OS/X and Windows 7 what was a reasonable 250gb reduces to 125gb each, and both OSs have swallowed that space up, so time had come for an upgrade. I opted for one of the new Seagate Momentus [...]
Running scared?
Friday, January 1st, 2010This post will only have a relevance for a small minority of people, those who have purchased recent Macbooks (all models) but sought to run Windows on them (7 primarily, but the issues also affect users with Vista and XP). With Snow Leopard came the new version 3 of Bootcamp – seemingly a godsend to [...]
Very funny review of Snow Leopard
Saturday, September 5th, 2009This is a very very funny Walt Mossberg take off reviewing the new Snow Leopard upgrade. In case you might think the issues raised are few and far between the first Mac user I met last Friday who’d upgraded found his Final Cut install completely broken (and he was urgently needing it to work!). Sadly, [...]
Life with Apple
Tuesday, July 21st, 2009I’ve been using my Macbook Pro for some four months so far with mixed results. The touchpad driver issue affecting using any version of Windows on it remains with no sign of a fix – I’ve ended up using an external mouse with it when using Windows. Apart from this issue it runs Windows 7 [...]
Nice to know one is not alone
Saturday, March 14th, 2009Having had huge issues with the driver update on the Macbook Pro for using Multi Touch under Vista I find I am not alone. No news on an update being released though…. Technorati Tags: Macbook Pro,touch pad Share this Post[?]
Beware
Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009Apple have a very interesting way of using words. Please note the illustration to the left, and in particular the line ‘Ships within 24hrs’ taken from their web site this morning. Now you might immediately think (as I did) that this would refer to the dispatch of an item within a 24 hour time span [...]
Farewell to the Cookbook Pro
Thursday, February 26th, 2009I had an option as a part of my leaving the college to take my Macbook Pro in lieu of part of the redundancy payment. I did seriously consider it, especially given its wonderful non-reflective screen against the new MB Pro. But the reports of the greater coolness of the newer model have swayed my [...]
When 24 hours delivery isn’t
Wednesday, February 25th, 2009As a part of leaving and starting afresh I’ve initiated purchasing a new laptop. A new Macbook Pro, as I’ve been a Pro user for nearly two years now, and today as back then, when I went searching for good spec light weight laptops I found the Macbook Pro came out ahead of Dell and [...]
And the revolution continues….
Thursday, January 8th, 2009Great video clip picked up from Steve Clayton’s blog. Share this Post[?]
Leopard
Tuesday, December 18th, 2007Having just upgraded two Macs to Leopard (thankfully painlessly given some of the horror stories floating around) I ended up underwhelmed by what I found. Don’t get me wrong, Apple always make features look fabulous. But the virtual desktop tool is nothing out of the ordinary XP has had the DeskMan powertoy for several years [...]
Fusion
Tuesday, October 9th, 2007I’ve been playing around with the 1.1 beta of VMware Fusion. It seems a little sluggish in comparison with Parallels, but wow do I lile the feature that allows you to use your Boot Camp partition as a virtual machine. This is seriously excellent, as now I have access to my standard Vista machine (complete [...]
Possibly the turning point
Friday, September 21st, 2007Sorry for yet another IT focused entry – if its not Vista and corporate computing issues then its my growing appreciation of my Macbook Pro I’d only fiddled around with booting into OS/X up until recently, but the success of getting Entourage to work with multiple Exchange servers has now combined with managing to find [...]
A pleasant surprise from Microsoft….
Wednesday, September 19th, 2007I know at times I seem to bash Microsoft, but give credit where its due, today I made a wonderful discovery. The background to this is that I currently use Exchange on my home network, have Exchange at the college, and potentially could have Exchange at my other job. The hindrance has always been that [...]