Tom Goskar

Freelance consultant for digital heritage

Category: Apple

  • What’s new with XR for the Apple ecosystem after WWDC 2022?

    What’s new with XR for the Apple ecosystem after WWDC 2022?

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    Apple’s 2022 WWDC conference is currently underway. In the keynote on 6th June we heard the headline announcements about iOS 16, iPadOS 16, watchOS 9, and macOS 13 (Ventura), along with the news about the new baseline M2 processor inside a redesigned MacBook Air and 13″ MacBook Pro. The Apple XR headset didn’t directly make…

  • Photos from the iPhone 4S camera

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    Yesterday, I bought my first iPhone. I’ve wanted one since they were first launched in 2007, so I feel very lucky to finally have one. Here are some photos taken with the iPhone 4S camera on a walk along Regent’s Canal on a sunny afternoon in London. Many were taken underneath bridges to test the…

  • Another new way to connect a Mac to a monitor, another adapter for the collection

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    According to Apple news website Mac Rumors, Apple’s forthcoming range of hardware include monitors that connect via the recently-introduced Thunderbolt connector. When I gave a lecture earlier this year in Oxford, the venue technician asked if I had a Mac and produced a box of adapters. “Mac? One of these should fit it”. There were…

  • Nine months with an Apple Magic Trackpad

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    As of this week, Apple will be offering customers of new desktop Macs the choice of either a Magic Trackpad or a Magic Mouse for no extra cost. Multitouch is here to stay. Since I first saw a multitouch device, the original iPhone, I have always wanted to see more multitouch technology find its way…

  • Why the Apple Tablet will be the ‘Computer for the rest of us’

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    Amongst all of the speculation about the rumoured forthcoming ‘Apple Tablet’ computer, I came across an excellent article entitled Why The Tablet Will Finally Be Steve Jobs’ “Computer For the Rest of Us” on Cult of Mac. It sums up what was important about the iPhone – hiding the complexity of the workings of the…

  • iMovie ’08 on a 1.8GHz single processor G5

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    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…

  • iPod woes

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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.…

  • Testing Ecto 3 alpha

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    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…

  • Cleaning up Word HTML

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    Today, whilst building a new data downloads section for the Archaeology at Heathrow T5 website, I had to convert a load of Word documents full of tables and subheadings into beautiful xHTML Strict for pages in a WordPress environment. Normally, I’d open the files in Word 2004 (on a Mac), save them as HTML, then…

  • Fed up with iPhone news and hype?

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    The question has to be asked of the iPhone – will it blend? Combine an iPhone and an extremely efficient blender…