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I guess it was inevitable that I would write a post relating to Apple’s new iPhone and MobileMe service. I’d held off a little so that I could see some of the fall out and what the deals are like over here in the UK.
The price is clearly the biggest thing about the iPhone [...]
This is one of my big pet hates.
I don’t know if it’s a fault in Safari or the blog, personally I blame both. I don’t need a choice of feeds, I don’t even know what the difference is between Atom, RSS 1 and RSS2. Just give me one and let me subscribe when [...]
When I got an invite to Things, back in December of last year, I was instantly impressed. I’d been trying out OmniFocus as a form of task management but it never really worked for me, too many options made it feel complicated and I wasted more time inputting and sorting tasks than I did [...]
Ever since the Macworld keynote I’ve been wrestling with a strong wish to buy an iPod touch. The new software available on the touch seems to have been one of the most controversial aspects of the keynote. But to me the prospect of having those key apps, without hacking, coupled with the recent discovery [...]
When Apple announced the iPhone back in January one of the features they touted was a free Push IMAP Yahoo email account to all iPhone customers. Since iPhone launched this little feature has seen very little press coverage, if any, but it is important in understanding why Address Book in Leopard syncs with the [...]
On my birthday and the few days after, you may have seen me talking about the death of my iPod, otherwise known as PhilPod. I think the HDD in it has failed, when I plug it into my Mac it whirrs, pops and clicks and doesn’t register at all in iTunes. On the [...]
On my blog at least. For a while now I’ve been keeping an eye on my blog and the platform it’s readers are using. I posted a screen grab on Flickr a few weeks ago showing 98% of my readers were on a Mac. Today it finally tipped. My blog hit [...]
As many of you will know I have had two Mac’s for just over a year now. In that year there has been one thing that I have struggled with, keeping the two of them in sync. Throughout the year I’ve developed a few little methods of keeping them at a manageable state [...]
Steve Jobs has just published a letter to all early iPhone adopters. He comments on the state of the technology industry and it’s effects, but then says:
We want to do the right thing for our valued iPhone customers. We apologize for disappointing some of you, and we are doing our best to live up [...]
USA Today has a Q&A with Apple CEO Steve Jobs covering the iPhone price drop and the iPod Touch.
If anybody is going to cannibalize us, I want it to be us. I don’t want it to be a competitor.
His response to the notion that the iPod Touch will cannibalise iPhone sales. That’s why Apple [...]
Well it finally landed. The iPod everyone has been anticipating for the last 2 years has finally landed, along with three younger (older?) brothers. It was a pretty action packed hour, and to be honest it was quite exciting. I’ve never really tried to get things minute by minute for an Apple [...]
A couple of weeks back Shawn posted this article for multiple Mac users. I’ve found it quite interesting and have since looked at NNW, although not acted on it. It’s also made me think a lot about .Mac. Anyway I just wanted to highlight it all for you.
I don’t know if this is purely OS X specific or if it’s purely Safari specific, but I just found a nice little shortcut. Pressing option (alt) and tab takes you to the top of the page, a useful little tip!
I recently came across a new Quicksilver interface thats in development. I first came across the Fumo interface through these screenshots or mockups a while ago, but as far as I could tell they were only that, mockups. On returning to the Quicksilver forums the other day I found that not only was [...]
Shawn posted his own screenshot and asked for some people to link to theres. So I though why not! ha! Here you go!
It’s fairly plain so that I find it less distracting when working on the dreaded dissertation.
In some moments of escapism from my Dissertation I have managed to setup my Twitter account to become that one status to rule them all. Finally fulfilling the role it has always threatened to do.
A while ago I told you I had a Twitter account and that I had got it showing up in [...]
I’ve recently had the chance to see and try out the new iPod Shuffle, one of my friends got one for Christmas, and it’s brilliant. It’s so small. I’m really tempted to get one, but I’m managing to hold off at the moment, but it would be so useful, I get fed-up of [...]
I was going to apologise for this post being a bit off topic, but then I decided it wasn’t! Mainly because my blog is for me and is meant to reflect me, so this post is reflecting the geeky/tech side of me, hehe! Anyway, I had a couple of friends who recently switched [...]
Ok, recently my iTunes library got to the point where my Music collection is bigger than my iPod can hold. Ever since then I have struggled with how to sort what music is placed on my iPod. I initially had it update itself and create a playlist to update from each time. [...]
Well The Apple Blog posted those who won on their main page. I was amoung those who won, I believe I was 8th on the list. I got my request in for the Shuffle and my back up prizes, here’s to waiting. But I really wanted to thank them for such a [...]
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