Apple closes Darwin
Sad bad news for Mac users who believe in open source. Apple have closed down OS X, or at least the Intel version, “for fear of pirates”. This is not […]
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Journalists bemused by piano on Ben Nevis
A piano has been “discovered” on top of Ben Nevis. The Guardian is reporting it’s a mystery how it got there over 20 years ago. They link to the John […]
Oh, oh, I want one! I want one!
The new MacBook, completing Apple’s line up of Intel laptops, is everything I hoped (except lighter and cheaper). But in addition: audio in and out BOTH optical AND digital!!! glossy […]
BBC Interview Cabbie By Mistake
When BBC News 24 interviewed a London Cabbie instead of his intended fare, he found himself in front of the cameras being questioned about the Apple vs. Apple verdict, and […]
Windows on the Mac (again): The Killer Solution
This may be a bit far out – a suggestion that Apple will be able to let users run Windows XP apps under OS X without Windows and with, unlike […]
Bluetooth for iChat over WiFi on my G3 iBook
It turns out, after much trialing and errors, that the buzzing my interlocutors can hear whilst I’m iChatting with them from my G3 iBook is caused by the Airport card […]
Parallels Workstation: Windows, Linux on OS X
Another day, another way to run Windows on your Mac. Parallels Workstation 2.1 (free) beta for OS X will let you run any OS “virtualised” so you can run it […]
Boot Camp: What Next for OS X?
Apple the switcher: from “We won’t do anything to preclude” running Windows on a Mac to “Apple has no desire or plan to sell or support Windows” but here-are-all-the-drivers-you-need and […]
Yet more jolly pranks…
I see from Wikipedia that I missed several more opportunities to be fooled yesterday. I must have been in the shower when Today announced that the UK Theme had been […]
I Love Microsoft
Okay, maybe that’s a bit extreme. But I’m pretty chuffed they’ve posted this update to Office 2004 just a day after my trial of e2sync ran out (and before I […]
iChat on your iPod
Take a look at Andrew Sheehy’s last comment in this Macworld article, about the WiPod to WiPod calls. What might Apple call this “Skype-like” application? How about….iChat? So I’m not […]
Sync Sync Sync
I’ve been trying for a while to get Mail.app to talk to my work Exchange server. After talking with the IT guys, it seems it’s not possible. I reckon the […]