Ford is using a total of 14 Mac minis on their assembly lines in their two northern Indiana factories to sequence the delivery of parts, reports Macworld. Interestingly, the company that did the evaluation for Ford that lead to the … Continue reading
A useful replacement for JHymn which unfortunately stopped working when iTunes 6.0 was released. FairGame strips the DRM (digital rights management) copy-protection from songs purchased from the iTunes Music Store. Saves copying the music to CD just to reimport it … Continue reading
It seems some drivers have difficulty using their brain after they have switched their sat-nav on: …drives off the road onto into a building site, up a stairway and into a toilet hut …gets stuck in the river …gets stuck … Continue reading
The scanning of our thousands of slides continues; every day we manage another 150 – 200 slides (more if we are at home at the weekend). Every few days I copy the new ones over the WLAN from the Dell … Continue reading
Five years ago today Apple introduced the iPod. The video above shows Steve Jobs explaining why Apple decided to develop the iPod and what he thought differentiated the iPod from the competition. It’s hard to believe now (Apple shipped 8.7 … Continue reading
During the last week or so, as well as setting up the Mac mini, we have started a mammoth scanning session. We have somewhere between 6000 and 7000 35mm slides in the cellar, which we haven’t looked at for at … Continue reading
One short update to the last post – after swapping the Iomega drive for the LaCie unit shown in the photo, I started to have problems putting the Mac to sleep. Every time I put it to sleep, it waited … Continue reading
Just before the weekend a smallish package arrived here. A Mac mini to replace my old G5 1.8 GHz tower, which is over three years old. I ordered the mini as I don’t need a new screen so an iMac … Continue reading
McAfee, one of the larger anti-virus (AV) software companies, has taken out full page adverts in the Financial Times to criticize Microsoft’s anti-virus strategy in their soon to be released new version of Windows, Vista. Microsoft has effectively locked out … Continue reading
Ballbot is a robot, a little shorter than a human, which balances on a metal ball about the size of a football. It was created at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh by Ralph Hollis, who is hoping to develop a … Continue reading