C2D MacBook Pro (but not MacBooks)
Well, as widely predicted the MacBook Pro was updated today, with FW800 and dual layer DVD writing, as well as the Core2Duo processor. But any hope I had that they’d […]
Macintosh
News about Macs, the Mac OS and other Apple products.
Life Without Begins…
It would appear that I was over optimistic in suggesting that smashing my iBook on the floor had not impaired vital functions. The hard drive has started making a sound […]
The Strange Behaviour of iTunes 7 Artwork
Under the new artwork views, iTunes groups tracks together as an album and shows one piece of artwork for the whole lot. Which makes sense, but gets more complicated in […]
The Shuffle
The new iPod Shuffle is 7g lighter (down from 22g to 15g) and half as long (down from 84mm to 21mm). But it’s wider and deeper by 2mm (up from […]
iTunes 7
This has made me quite happy. Damn, it is nice. Cover view is cool. Cover flow view is waaay cool. Art from iTMS is neat. What is this “anaylsing for […]
Thoughts on Showtime
Hello iTunes 7 Mmm, this is great. Worthy of the build up alone, really. Deserves its own post. Bigger capacity iPods Just as well I can’t afford one. Or I […]
Showtime?
So we’ve got a week until the super new thing(s) Apple have for us are announced, and judging by the invite I’d have to say it’ll be the iTunes movie […]
Late Arrival at the Apple Battery Recall Party
Regular readers will know I have an aging, decrepit G3 (now into its fifth year, well into its second logic board and now suffering an intermittent screen fault). I’m saving […]
Fedora Core 5 on iBook G3
This was not as easy as it should have been. The media check failed, (erroneously I believe, as the sha1sum checked out), and then the graphical install wouldn’t work. I […]
Picasa Web
To friends who are trying to use Windows as their primary operating system, owning a digital camera can be a pretty unrewarding experience if you rely on the software that […]
The Strange Behaviour of iTunes (and its ID3 tags)
I’ve got some fairly large files in iTunes – audiobooks and radio shows. Add to this the fact that they’re stored on a network drive, and that I usually connect […]