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A technical post today. I seem to remember that one of the very early uses for blogging was as a sort of technical diary, and that's wh...

My day-to-day laptop is a MacBook Air, which I've had since 2010. For crunchier Mac processing I use an iMac and all my main files etc....

The iMac is back to full functionality using a modernised and streamlined selection of software. I could have simply run a restore from Ti...

As part of the 'fixing the iMac' project, I decided to clean up the iTunes library by de-duplicating some of the excess tunes. I t...

The march of technology continues in the workplace. We had the Nokia cellphone, then the Blackberry and more recently the iPhone. Now we...

I see that Apple has announced a bunch of new things at their conference. Some were fairly predictable, but I think it's interesting i...

I've been reading some of the commentary about the Apple iPad over the last few days. First speculation about it, then quasi leaked pict...

A slew of new Apple updates hit my computer this week. The Bonjour update is the intriguing one, if it includes something to support a new A...

We received some secret samples of the still in development handheld graphically enabled PDA with built in memory, text and reader support. ...

Another time capsule arrived today from Apple and seems to be working. That's one dead and gone, one dead to return to the Apple Store a...

Stop apple time capsule overheating. Lay old disk drive on top rear of case as heat sink. Inelegant but practical.

I seem rather unlucky with these Time Capsule dedicated backup devices. The new one that arrived yesterday has also failed. It was maybe hal...

The new version of the Apple web browser Safari has quietly installed itself on this machine. It has some fun features like the ability to s...

It's slightly annoying to discover that the time capsule I use to back up one of my computers has converted itself into a white brick. I...

I keep a reusable bag in the car boot for when I'm buying a few groceries or similar. I should estimate I've bought around ten of th...

T'internet ground to a halt for a while today whilst various services streamed updates from San Francisco about the new guitar and piano...

The icicles by the door this morning were an early sign of how frozen my fingers would be by the time I reached work. Of course, typing on a...

The entry, which was originally for a Thinkpad but works for other laptop keyboards is here

Yup, the plan worked. My three year old Powerbook now has a new drive. It was 80GB, its now 160Gb, with more than half free. I copied everyt...

I was reading Maximum Bob's adventures after he added a snake picture to his site which created a stir of extra hits a couple of days a...