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.
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.
As reported at The Web Standards Project, Safari 2.02 is the first fully released browser to pass the Acid 2 test, to show that it renders CSS correctly.
What I want to know is, when are the acid 3 and 4 tests coming out to push browsers further into advanced CSS support, which should make for [...]
Posted on Tuesday 1st November 2005 in Blog tagged Computers, internet, mac OS X, software, with no comments.
Is this the future of computing? The TactaPad apparently lets you control the cursor on screen by just using your hands on the special pad. It even shows a shadow of your fingers on screen, so that you can see where they are pointing.
Either this is an elaborate hoax, or it is a real product, [...]
Posted on Tuesday 30th August 2005 in Blog, Computers tagged Computers, future, Science, software, with no comments.
Since getting my mac, I have been mainly using Safari as my web browser.
The first main point that annoyed me, was it’s lack of advert blocking. Not popup-blocking—that works perfectly. I mean intrusive banner images. Under windows I had been using the excellent adblock for Firefox, and while this is available for the mac (and [...]
Posted on Thursday 7th July 2005 in Blog tagged Computers, internet, mac OS X, software, with no comments.
