Tag Archives: Mac

For Apple users, a bit of fun from The Simpsons

by Tom on 01. Dec, 2008 in Apple, humour

“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!

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Nokia E71 Review: Part Three – Software

by Tom on 01. Oct, 2008 in Gadgets, nokia e71, smartphones

There is plenty of software available for Symbian S60 3rd edition phones such as the Nokia N95, and of course, the E71. Since acquiring my E71, I have tried out a lot of software, and after a flurry of installs and uninstalls, I have settled down to a core of programs that I regularly use [...]

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Video on the BBC website / Installing Real Player on OSX

by Tom on 02. Jan, 2008 in Mac, Software

Warning – this one is a bit of a rant. With pictures. I’ve just tried to watch a video on the BBC website on a new(ish) MacBook running the latest version of the Mac operating system (Leopard). But of course, I’d forgotten, you need Real Player or Windows Media Player to watch their video: Grrr. [...]

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WordPress Dashboard Widgets

by Tom on 09. Nov, 2007 in Mac, WordPress

Does anyone know of a decent OSX dashboard widget for posting to a WordPress blog? I’ve been using WordPressDash on and off for over two years now, and in Leopard some strange things have happened to its appearance. One that supports WP2.3′s tags would be nice. Ideas, anyone?

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iMovie ’08 on a 1.8GHz single processor G5

by Tom on 03. Sep, 2007 in Apple, Software

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 [...]

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On NewsFire an other feed readers

by Tom on 13. Feb, 2007 in Mac, Software

My feedreader of choice is, and has been for some 2 years, the excellent NetNewsWire Lite on a Mac. It handles my 244 feeds very well, and they’re all nicely categorised into groups. But I’ve had a bit of trouble recently in that NetNewsWire Lite has begun to randomly jumble up individual posts. Rather than [...]

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