Saturday, February 13th, 2010
I have been doing some iPhone development lately. Nothing too amazing, just some test apps to get a feel for the system. Now, some people will tell you that Cocoa Touch is an API sent from God and frankly it is pretty good (especially given what passes for UI on ...
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Monday, August 3rd, 2009
I love MacOSX, and one of the best features is the almost ubiquitous built-in dictionary. So it is surprising that I after 3 years I have only just now discovered how to switch the dictionary from the default American English to British spellings. For some reason this is not part ...
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Thursday, July 30th, 2009
Remember Space Ace? The massive machine at the back of the greasy arcade you used to frequent? The one that played a cartoon that you had to react to? The one that cost twice as much as any other game? Of course you do. Well now it is back, and ...
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Saturday, June 13th, 2009
Safari 4 has been out for a couple of days now, and I must say I am enjoying using it. On the Mac, Safari has always had a great overall browser experience but Firefox always managed to stay my weapon of choice for viewing the Internet. This may change, ...
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Friday, March 13th, 2009
Apple has a new iPod out and that means a new version of iTunes. Along with support for the new device, there are a couple of interesting new features.
The first is autofill, a feature that I have been waiting for since I a got my first iPod. Up until now ...
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Monday, January 5th, 2009
My first-generation MacBook laptop had only one problem - its first generation 60 gig hard disk. Actually it used to have two problems, but I installed more memory in it ages ago. 60 gigs doesn't go far in today's world of movies and huge software packages, so I felt it ...
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Thursday, August 14th, 2008
Apple has finally gotten its act together and added movies to the New Zealand iTunes store. Most older films are available to both rent and download outright, and the selection seems pretty good if not totally complete. The prices are not too bad either, you can definitely do better but ...
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Wednesday, March 26th, 2008
The browser wars are starting to hot up again. Apple is making a late play for cross platform browsing by releasing Safari 3.1 onto the world. Safari is MacOS X's bundled browser - on the Mac it has always been pretty good, but the recent Windows versions have been terrible. ...
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Tuesday, February 12th, 2008
I just installed the latest patch for Mac OS X on my MacBook. It fixes a whole host of things, almost none of which I ever found to be a problem.
First the bad news - the update take a very long time. First there is 5 minutes of watching ...
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Tuesday, October 30th, 2007
Talk about bad luck! The week before Apple's latest and greatest operating system is released, my MacBook hard drive decides it can no longer go on living. As I result, I have lost a years worth of email and photos just days before. If the hard disk had waited just ...
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