Thought I’d share a mini-triumph to a niggling problem with iCal and recurring events I’d accepted into my calendar.
I work with a number of clients, most of whom are on MS Exchange of one flavour or another. I get meeting invites from them and accept them joyously into iCal on my Mac. For the most [...]
24 years ago, eh? Most people know that I’m a bit of a mac fan (or victim – take your pick). Given that I spend so much of my working life at a keyboard it’s a real testament to the OS+hardware combo that I still enjoy the very processes of _using_ the computer. Apart from [...]
So, this was the advice I gave myself about upgrading to Mac OSX 10.5 “Leopard”:
* don’t rush – wait for the war stories
* don’t rush – do some major backups
* don’t rush – do some serious housekeeping
* don’t rush – check you’ve got the serial numbers and details of all applications ESPECIALLY those little plugins [...]
DPReview has a link to the new guidelines for the “Specification Guideline for Digital Cameras”. Currently in draft the document carries the collaborative weight of Nikon, Canon, Pentax, Panasonic, Sony and others.
Currently the only topic on digicams is the infernal megapixel level – an annoying and largely irrelevant metric when the camera has high noise, [...]
A wonderful short film on the art of guilloche – mechanical engraving. In an age of mass production or computer-controlled manufacture it’s too easy to forget the ‘original’ hand-crafting – it’s too easy to assume that it was ‘just done by a machine’.
Guilloche does something to me and I can meditate upon a fine watch [...]
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TechCrunch UK » Blog Archive » Mike Butcher joins Techcrunch UK!
Congrats to Mike Butcher, hitherto of mbites fame, upon his election to the Editorship at TechCrunch. Mike will bring not only journalistic rigour but also media/tech insights born of his years of commentary and analysis of the sector.
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The BBC’s latest ‘customer focused’ restructure promises a great deal, but despite the changes the BBC’s jewel remains its content not its technology. The success of the changes should be judged by reducing waste and missed opportunities and increased working with the commercial sector to increase the effectiveness and use of the content.