1 December, 2008 - 11:46 am
Tags: Apple, humour, Mac, Simpsons
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“Flay him with your earbuds!”
This rather sharp parody of Apple hardware, gadget lust, ‘worship’ of Steve Jobs, and Apple fanboy behaviour, is truly brilliant!
According to the system requirements for Apple’s newest incarnation of iLife (iLife ‘08), iMovie ‘08 shouldn’t work on my machine (an ‘original’ 2003 1.8GHz SP G5 with 1GB RAM).
The installer runs a system check before it installs iLife (as it did on my G4 laptop) to see if your system meets the minimum requirements (a [...]
1 September, 2007 - 7:55 pm
Tags: 4G-iPod, Apple, broken, firewire, fix, iPod, iPod-photo, restore, solution
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Recently, my 2 year old 4G iPod broke. I was listening to a podcast whilst walking to work when the audio froze. I took it out of my pocket and found that everything had frozen – the UI as well as playback.
I tried to reset it on the move, but nothing could unfreeze it. I [...]
[Update] The line is back, despite after disappearing temporarily after a reboot. See the photo below.
[Update 2: 2nd May] A second line has appeared 6 pixels to the left of the first one
[Update 3: 10th May]A third line, this time magenta, is now flickering on and off 495px in from the left. I’m going [...]
This is just a quick test post to see if WordPressDash, a widget for OSX’s Dashboard, still works with WordPress 2.1.x
I should also be able to use tags from this widget, thanks to Ultimate Tag Warrior’s ability to find embedded tags within the post itself.
Well, if you’re reading this, and there are tags listed, it [...]
12 January, 2007 - 9:39 am
Tags: Apple, iphone, pocketmac
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I’ve been a Mac user for over 3 years now, and like most Mac users, I was excited when Steve Jobs announced the iPhone at Macworld San Francisco on Tuesday. Apart from the device looking utterly amazing in every way, it was revealed that it actually runs a version of OSX. Wow. Or so I [...]