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Aperture Adventures

16 February 2010: On first release Aperture 3 is showing symptoms of a major memory leak which renders it a nightmare for serious deployment until fixed.

Flash Mob

3 February 2010: An overview of the fallout from Apple’s decision not to provide Flash support on the iPhone and their new iPad platform.

29 January 2010: False mount points in OS X. Incorrectly removing a drive in OS X can cause the drive to remount with a different mount point name, adding a number to the name, which affects many software applications.

O2's not so simple Simplicity for iPhone

19 January 2010: So the magic day has arrived … I’m out of contract on my iPhone 3G *deep joy* Time to change to a better value tariff so off I headed to O2 in Bolton. I knew what I wanted was a tariff called Simplicity 20 for iPhone … if only acquiring it had been simple. Sadly, [...]

Tabula rasa (Latin: blank slate)

1 January 2010: So it’s that time of the year when resolutions are made, plans are crafted and successes are plotted. Judging by my lack of progress in blogging last year I think rather than picking one or more of the Top 10 New Years Resolutions I should resolve to dedicate more time to blogging. In my defence [...]

Quick URL Entry on an iPhone Redux

31 July 2009: Within days of getting my iPhone 3G in the summer of 2008 I’d found a real time saving feature on the keyboard for entering URL extensions and blogged about it too at Quick URL Entry on an iPhone. Well after the v.3 update not only is the feature still there but the range of extensions [...]

Ain’t Advertising (Ten) Grand?

22 June 2009: I thought I was beyond being surprised by the depths to which Microsoft will stoop to gain a user. Sadly this week has proved that I am not and I viewed the latest attempts from Redmond to woo users to the newly minted Internet Explorer 8. The strategy this time is to offer the chance [...]

Safari 4 – Almost a Disaster

9 June 2009: So after a fantastic night chatting with MacBiters in the MacBites chat room during WWDC I eagerly downloaded the release version of Safari and installed it. While I’m installing I ponder the slightly surprising decision to revert the top mounted tabs to their original location but I’m sure I’ll get used it again. Trouble is [...]

Like a Headless Chicken

6 June 2009: In the midst of the iMac fiasco I made the decision to buy a Mac Mini. I’d toyed with purchasing one before deciding to wait for the inevitable upgrades – trouble was Apple took far longer than I anticipated to upgrade the Mini. Well the upgrades finally arrived and I bought a base model priced [...]