Archive for the ‘ Techie Stuff ’ Category
One day in to using OS X Lion full time on my main machine, and I have to say that I am generally happy. Not blown away, but happy. Here are a few observations. There’s nothing I dislike about Lion (so far). It is basically Snow Leopard plus so far as my experiences so far. [ READ MORE ]
I finally took the plunge last night and upgraded my main work machine to OS X Lion (having previously upgraded a laptop and a Mac Mini without incident some months ago). I waited until now for two reasons; I wanted to wait for at least one update (OS releases are seldom trouble free, especially significant [ READ MORE ]
There has been a significant amount of handwringing around the blogosphere about Apple’s latest announcements, to wit, the introduction of an App Store in the next Mac OS X”Lion” and the dropping of Flash and Java on Mac OS X. Java on Mac OS X is being deprecated. This means that Apple will not continue [ READ MORE ]
Well, a complete day without my trusty laptop. So how did it go. Armed only with an iPad I ventured onto a client’s site feeling slightly naked without my constant companion (my laptop). My laptop was at home, wired into it’s life support system (my home network). The home router had been told to make [ READ MORE ]
Today I am, for the first time in many years, sans laptop. I am on a client site without my trust laptop! Just my phone and an iPad. This is something of an experiment. I do not actually need the laptop for today’s work (that is, I will not be doing any heavy lifting that [ READ MORE ]
With more and more tablet computers making an appearance, the thing that strikes me is the size of their screens. There seems to be a trend to the small, positioning themselves between the iPad’s 9.5 inch display and the typical smartphone 3.5-4 inches. So what is the market? Why choose a particular screen size? Having [ READ MORE ]
Okay, I know it’s not spring yet, but you get the idea. I was fed up with running with only 10GB or so free disk space and I don’t want to void my support contract by replacing the existing 250GB hard-drive with a larger one (I have a pre-2009 Macbook Pro and replacing the hard-drive [ READ MORE ]
There are currently few exploits for OS X in the wild (oh yes, there are a few, so let’s not be complacent). There are several reasons for this; primarily, the market share of OS X in the operating system market is small enough that it is less likely to be attacked (why go for 5% [ READ MORE ]
The British government’s Public Account committee (bless ‘em) are blaming old IT systems for their failure to collect all taxes due (£11.2bn apparently). But while the Department is working to improve its debt recovery, its efforts are constrained by outdated systems and it has deferred plans to invest in them due to lack of funding. [ READ MORE ]
If you’re a Mac user and you use both PathFinder and Dropbox then you may be experiencing problems with PathFinder hanging occasionally. This is an incompatibility with Dropbox, but fortunately easily fixed by updating to the latest version of Dropbox[ READ MORE ]
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