I use Skype on one platform or another every day. I use it mainly on my Mac, and occasionally on my Nokia E71 via Skype for 3 (if out and about) or Skype’s own Symbian client (if wifi is near). On rare occasions I’ll use Fring, because it has the most fluid chat functions. It [...]
MacJournal
by Tom on 08. Mar, 2010 in Mac, Software
I have just bought the latest MacHeist nanoBundle2 (after I found that there’s a $2 discount to existing MacHeist members) and MacJournal came as part of the bundle. I do use DevonThink for most of my information organisation, but MacJournal’s, well, journal feel could be quite interesting. And it, hopefully, can publish to my blog, [...]
Life with the Nokia E71
by Tom on 20. Oct, 2008 in Gadgets, Software, smartphones
I’ve had my E71 for about 6 weeks now, and I thought that I’d write a few words here to let people know how I’m getting along. Would I recommend the E71 to anyone who is looking for a smartphone? Absolutely. Would I recommend it over the iPhone? That depends. If battery life is important [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
Testing Ecto 3 alpha
by Tom on 14. Aug, 2007 in Apple, Software, blogging
Way back in the dim and distant past, before my other blog, Past Thinking, began to focus solely upon heritage matters, I reviewed Ecto 2. Now, 2 years later, I’m writing this with the alpha version of Ecto 3. This isn’t a full review – this is really just a test drive of the alpha [...]
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 [...]
MacHeist
by Tom on 17. Dec, 2006 in Mac, Software
Having just moved house, and having just packed all my books and CDs, I decided that I really ought to catalogue them. I’ve been tempted by Delicious Library for a while now and thought it an excellent time to buy it. Luckily, I heard about MacHeist, who, at the time of writing, are offering Delicious [...]
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Callum: I live in the DT1 area, and as you can see from th...
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Jeremy: Great review Tom, sounds like a tasty phone. Tha...
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Tom: Glad you liked the review. I think it's called iro...
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Tom: After a few days use, the battery life has improve...
