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.
Thanks to the new ‘Front Row Enabled’ version 2.3 of Elgato Systems’ eyeTV Software, and Andrew Escobar’s excellent Front Row Hack, I can now enjoy the benefits of Apple’s Front Row software from across the room. Even though I don’t have an Apple remote. I do however have a perfectly good IR remote and receiver [...]
Posted on Saturday 29th July 2006 in Blog tagged Computers, eyeTV, mac OS X, software, with no comments.
For those of you with widescreen macs, who use Apple’s Mail.app for your email, may like the following hack to convert it to a 3 column view for viewing messages.
It is not quite as neatly done as you would expect from a proper Apple release, there is a slight quirk with resizing the two main [...]
Posted on Friday 2nd June 2006 in Blog tagged Computers, email, hack, mac OS X, technology, with no comments.
Daniel Eran has posted an interesting insight into the real reasons behind the plague of viruses and other malware for the Microsoft Windows OS, Five Architectural Flaws in Windows Solved In Mac OS X. These flaws are also “solved” in other linux/unix operating systems, although these tend to be used by more security conscious users [...]
Posted on Sunday 14th May 2006 in Blog, Computers tagged Computers, internet, mac OS X, MS Windows, Windows, with no comments.
This post is as much for my own reference as anything else, but if it is useful to you, than that is an added bonus.
I downloaded the most up-to-date version of MySQL 4.0 as a dmg from the MySQL website, and ran the installer.
But it doesn’t work quite yet. Since OS X 10.4.4 there is [...]
Posted on Saturday 29th April 2006 in Blog tagged Computers, geekery, internet, mac OS X, with no comments.
