Archive for "Apple"

Nice Little Things

Just another small feature in OS X that I noticed today – it might not be entirely new to Leopard, but the icon for a .ics event shows the event date, name and time.

Posted at 23:48 on November 16th 2007, tagged as , with no comments yet

MacUpdate

Sorry to steal the name of a fantastic Mac software site, but that’s what this post has to be. There’s been so much Apple stuff happening over the last few days that I haven’t written about.
Leopard was released last Friday, the 26th. People really seem to love it, with the exception of a few install [...]

Posted at 17:35 on October 28th 2007, tagged as , with one comment

Rhetorical Question?

Which button do I press for “not really…”?

Posted at 19:46 on October 8th 2007, tagged as , with no comments yet

Into London

Just got back from Regent Street – had a play with the new iPod Classic and Nano, and the interface on both of them (as well as slight size reductions) makes them absolutely lovely…
Saw the following poster on the tube – as far as I can gather, it’s a Barclaycard with integrated Oyster Card – [...]

Posted at 15:18 on September 9th 2007, tagged as , with no comments yet

Cranky

It’s half one in the morning, so the obvious thing to do was to post about how much I want to sleep…
Firstly: PowerPoint for the Mac is a pile of steaming horribleness - I can’t find a way (right now at least) to make it do a presentation on my widescreen laptop… so I’m using [...]

Posted at 1:31 on September 3rd 2007, tagged as , with no comments yet

‘Beta’ and ‘Invite-Only’

I’ve had the chance to play with Plasq’s new beta-invite-only software Skitch for about a month now, and it’s really great.
At the same time however, it highlights (for me at least) a problem with beta software in general. I’ve been sitting, making silly little pictures, happily using this software. The thing I’ve failed to take [...]

Posted at 9:22 on July 21st 2007, tagged as , with one comment