Thoughts on computers, the internet, and web design
I not that recently upgraded to iLife ‘08, mainly for iPhoto. I had previously been using version 5 (‘05), and there is a significent improvement. (Ed: this post has been sitting in my drafts for almost 6 months now :/)
The new events based view is a joy to use. Photos are by default grouped into [...]
Posted on Wednesday 30th April 2008 in Blog, Computers, Reviews tagged apple, Flickr, Photos, review, software, with no comments.
My old hard drive had been making alarming clunking noises (more than is usual) and causing the system to hang, therefore I thought it best to replace the drive.
So after making sure the Time Machine backup was up to date, I replaced the HDD, and booted the computer with the OS X DVD. I was [...]
Posted on Saturday 15th March 2008 in Computers tagged apple, backup, Computers, with no comments.
Along with the (not quite so) new Eden Court in Inverness, comes a revamped version of their website. Unfortunately there still does not appear to be an easy way to create a link to the current day’s event listings. So I cobbled one together, with some help from a tutorial.
To use, copy the following link [...]
Posted on Friday 28th December 2007 in Blog, Computers, with no comments.
Everyone 1 seems to be amazed by the new voice included as part of mac OS X Leopard, and called Alex. Yes, it is better than previous computerised voices, but it (he?) still has a long way to go.
A lot is being made of the “natural breathing and intonation”, which is good. But I found, [...]
Posted on Sunday 11th November 2007 in Computers tagged Computers, future, language, mac OS X, with no comments.
Simon has just posted an interesting rantpost on why he is not on Facebook, or indeed on any of the multitude of social networking sites that seem to be springing up at the rate of one a week. He cites that fact that networking for the sake of it seems inherently wrong. Why not actually [...]
Posted on Sunday 23rd September 2007 in Blog, Computers tagged Computers, facebook, internet, networking, pointless, rant, technology, with no comments.
