By John | December 5, 2009
The Apple Store yesterday in Frankfurt’s Fressgass’
If you have ever bought an Apple product, you know their packaging is usually exquisite. Well, the same applies to their stores before they open. The Frankfurt store pictured above opens at the beginning of January, and work is still going on inside. However, the logo is already installed, [...]
By John | August 18, 2009
Apple is building a new 1 billion dollar data center, five times larger than it’s existing one in California. Supposedly, to start offering “cloud computing” services (i.e. allowing users to store their data on the web, or use web-based applications).
Everyone’s major concern about cloud computing, is “What happens to my data if the service [...]
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Apple’s OS X has one “feature” which periodically causes me a lot of grief. Not often, because once I have fallen over it, it takes several years until I forget and make the mistake again. I use Windows PCs at work, and there, if I copy a directory’s contents into another directory, it effectively merges [...]
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Sometimes I ask myself what the developers of the Apple Mac spelling checker are smoking…
Fortunately, most people don’t accept that particular suggestion – not everyone was paying attention however…
Here’s a good article on Gizmodo, which lists a bunch of useful additions to iTunes, some for the Mac, some for Windows and even a couple to allow you use Linux to play from iTunes libraries. Take a look.
I have been moving our music library to a new external disc drive this weekend, and after running the consolidate command from iTunes (File > Library > Consolidate Library) I noticed that although I only have each track listed once in iTunes, I have two files for each track in the iTunes music directory (MyMusic). [...]
By John | October 18, 2008
I found this excellent tip on lifehacker.com. If you have ripped audio books from CD into iTunes, normally iTunes will think that you have added music. Since iTunes 8.0 it is possible to reclassify the tracks, so that iTunes recognizes them as audiobooks, which means that they will appear in the audiobooks section in iTunes, [...]
By John | September 13, 2008
I bought an i-Blue 747 GPS track logger recently. You can pick one up, new, on eBay for around 40 – 50 Euro. The idea is to use it to tag photos with their position – our cameras don’t have GPS receivers built in, and often when we get back from holiday, its difficult [...]
By John | August 23, 2008
Apple is using the Olympics to market it’s Macs and professional image processing software, Aperture, to the press photographers attending. They’ve set up 50 workstations with 30″ Cinema Displays and all the necessary software (Photoshop, Aperture, and more) for the pros to use in the Kodak Photographer’s Center. The set-up is being managed by Joe [...]
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By John | August 18, 2008
How long is a piece of string? … or are Macs more expensive than Windows PCs?`
The answer is: it depends.
About the same price for a similar specification
About double for a basic machine
So it depends what your priorities are. But if you are considering buying a new Mac, remember that the rumour mill says that new [...]
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