Saturday, 20th December, 2008 – 10:39
The Office of Public Works will be streaming the Winter Solstice live from Newgrange. The broadcast will require Windows Media Player, so those of you on a Mac can use the User Agent Plugin for Firefox and Flip4Mac to watch.
The broadcast is available from 08:30 on Sunday 21st.
Edit: Just as I posted this, an article [...]
Thursday, 12th June, 2008 – 01:49
The Function Keys F3 - F9 in Mac OS X gives you access to the various Exposé “views”. For example, pressing F3 on my MacBook shows all open application windows. (Depending on your Mac, the function keys may be mapped differently. Check System Preferences - Exposé & Spaces for a full list.)
While trying to figure [...]
Sunday, 16th March, 2008 – 02:21
It’s been a tiring couple of weeks. First there was moving house, then there was my MacBook problems, and then RAG week came along. It’s just been one stressful event after another.
I’m still not fully unpacked, but for various reasons out of my control, it looks like I’ll have to move again in the next [...]
Thursday, 6th March, 2008 – 09:24
After a bit of work, I’ve managed to get my MacBook up and running. It’s not what you’d call “portable” any more, but it does work. The problem seems to be that keyboard is damaged, and it’s shorting out the powerboard. Because of this, the adaptor won’t power the mainboard or charge the battery.
With the [...]
Wednesday, 16th January, 2008 – 03:44
Steve Jobs has made his keynote speech at MacWorld and the blogosphere is alive with the news of the MacBook Air, updated iTunes and iPhone software, but personally I think the most interesting announcement was that of the new Time Capsule.
Time Capsule is an Airport wireless router with an inbuilt 500GB or 1TB hard-drive. It’s [...]
Thursday, 3rd January, 2008 – 22:46
According to a couple of different mac rumour sites, Apple released the latest update to Leopard - 10.5.2 - to developers last month. This update weighs in at a hefty 350MB and includes over 70 fixes. With SMB and Finder and being mentioned as getting updates, lets hope that my network drive problems are at [...]