Everyone else has had a go, so it’s my turn to give my impressions of the Apple iPad. I believe that the future is about Human–Computer Interaction (HCI) or it’s non-computing equivalent, making continually more complex functionality simple enough for everyone to use, and I think that Apple are of the same mind.
The time had come to upgrade our MacBook Pros to Snow Leopard. Not wishing to break my partner’s laptop, I decided to see if the upgrade route would work using my machine as a testbed. Would I live to regret it…
A hard drive failure is always a heart stopping moment, especially when it contains your partner’s huge photograph library and all those personal records.
I’ve come up with a brilliant idea to reuse my old Mac mini. I’m going to convert it into a server on my local network for development and hosting our personal web projects. OK… not very original, but the key point is that I want to be able to use the wireless networking, stick it [...]
I’m writing on the 30 day trial of MarsEdit, the blog editing tool for the Mac. Given that this is my second post of the day — very rare, I know — you might have gathered that I like it. I’ve always edited my online content remotely, I have a local copy and can work [...]
Virtualization is definitely a big trend in computing and I’m growing to love it. On the Web. My production server environment is virtualized by the Xen hypervisor; providing a more flexible and cost effective solution. I like the freedom of complete root access but, given my relatively low traffic volumes, the cost of a dedicated [...]
I went over to the Apple Centre in Solihull, that’s in the UK, to pick up my newly repaired MacBook Pro this Monday. I thought I’d wait a bit before posting the results to make sure that the fix actually worked. I can’t fault the service I received from the Apple Centre, but the quality [...]
Back in the System 6 era, Apple Macs were niche products; well made, often expensive and largely found in academic circles. I always felt the problem was that Apple had a clearly superior product, but were just plain rubbish at marketing themselves. Wow, times sure change! My first Apple was back in the days of [...]
I’m an Apple user that recently I splashed out on a 15 inch, 2.2 GHz MacBook Pro. So why am I having to write this on my old Mac mini? The day came and I received my MacBook Pro; beautifully presented in carefully designed and executed packaging. I opened it up and was immediately impressed [...]