Archive for the 'An Apple a day...' Category

Posting from my iPhone

Saturday, October 11th, 2008

I’m typing this on my brand new iPhone. I think I need smaller fingers.

I can even add a photo. This inane drivel is brought to you by the WordPress app for iPhone.


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Issues with MySQL, PHP and Mac OS X 10.4.5

Saturday, February 18th, 2006

I was having som weird issues with performance on my PowerBook under Mac OS X 10.4.3, so I decided to upgrade to 10.4.5.
After my machine rebooted I could no longer connect to my MySQL databases through PHP. A quick web search turned up this MacRumors forum post. I just had to change a line in


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On the dangers of blogging

Tuesday, January 31st, 2006

(Or rather, on the dangers of listening to blogging)
Now, everyone has the right to be heard (with obvious exceptions). But with everyone clamouring to be heard, it makes it rather hard to know who you should be listening to.
Robert Scoble is a “Microsoft geek blogger”, and technical evangelist. His blog is consistently among the top


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Apple from an ex-employee’s perspective

Monday, January 16th, 2006

Mike Evangelist (I think that’s really his name!) is writing a book about his experiences at everyone’s favourite computer company. He’s writing about his writing over at his blog, Writers Block Live. I found out about Mike’s site after reading a Guardian article penned by him about behind-the-scences preparation of a Steve Jobs keynote.


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An anthropomorphized brushed metal interface’s take on some Apple announcements

Saturday, January 14th, 2006

Following Steve Jobs’ MacWorld keynote this week, Apple’s brushed metal interface is feeling decidedly sorry for himself.
Warning: the following posts contain explicit language and are not suitable for persons under the age of 21.25.
iLife ’06 From the Perspective of an Anthropomorphized Brushed Metal Interface
This is just the latest in a downward spiral for BMI.
The


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Google Earth for Mac!

Wednesday, January 11th, 2006

Google Earth is now available for Mac OS 10.4 and up.:
Update:
This is the Target store near Springwood. In this day and age of terrorism, I think that’s just asking for trouble.

Target’s target

My place from space!Image © 2005 DigitalGlobe


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Macworld 2006 keynote thoughts

Wednesday, January 11th, 2006

Once again Apple CEO Steve Jobs has taken the stage at Macworld and delivered some impressive (albeit somewhat forseen) announcements to the Mac community. The new iMac has an Intel dual core processor in it, with each core running faster than the PowerPC processor in the previous model. That makes for some serious performance.
I completely


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iDVD

Wednesday, June 15th, 2005

Stewart plays with iDVD 5 and likes what he finds


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