By Mark Tennent in Reader
Posted in Security, Internet on July 1, 2010 at 4:33 pm
We are just back from staying in an idyllic 13th century manor house in Le Mesnil Jourdain, Normandy. So much gite for so little money, Ikea meets antiques. And it even included “wee-fee if we could log onto the Negeer”, said the nice French lady. Read more
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Posted in Uncategorized on June 11, 2010 at 5:18 pm
Everyone knows cellphone insurance is a rip-off, or is it? Read more
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Posted in Uncategorized on June 2, 2010 at 8:38 pm
May Bank Holiday was spent mostly supporting an elderly relative whose mind slips between one reality and the next. Meanwhile their partner and main carer was admitted to hospital. The nights were passed in a banana shape, making my 6-foot frame fit a 4-foot sofa. When we got home, abstinence slipped from our minds as one or two glasses of wine were followed by a third. Do we really want to live until we can’t remember where we live? Read more
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Posted in Uncategorized on May 23, 2010 at 4:23 pm
In the last seven years we have been through: six new desktop Macs, three laptops, two scanners, four printers, eight operating system upgrades, twenty hard disks and seven cellphones. All of which, when shared between two of us, is at least fifteen grand each. Read more
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Posted in QuarkXPress, utilities, Video capture, Apple, Uncategorized on May 19, 2010 at 9:11 am
Who’d have thought it? Most of the time it just sits there doing very little. Type ‘top’ into Terminal to see it, feet up and half asleep, waiting for us to titillate its silicone synapses. Even doing heavy Photoshopping or similar graphics stuff, the CPU’s use less than 1%. Read more
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Posted in Video capture, Uncategorized on May 9, 2010 at 10:56 am
People are funny where Apple is concerned. For example: Martin our ISP, is so vehemently anti anything Apple he refuses to let iPhones send mail from their owner’s accounts on his servers. iPhones can receive mail but not reply to it unless they have an account elsewhere whose smtp server let’s iPhone mail through – which is probably nearly all of them. Martin has no problem with other smartphones, just Apple’s. It seems the most rabid stances taken in any discussion about Apple comes from those against rather than the so-called fanboys. Read more
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Posted in utilities, QuarkXPress, Gripes moans and whinges, Images, iPhone, Apple on April 25, 2010 at 2:57 pm
It says in big friendly letters ‘Open Immediately’. I did. Slit into the envelope, had a quick look at the contents and put them back inside. After all, the prospective candidates hadn’t bothered to send me any pre-election crud so how do I know who to vote for? Read more
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Posted in Gripes moans and whinges, Security, Apple on April 18, 2010 at 12:36 pm
Week thirty-three of hell for a Mac user working in XP purgatory. The last seven days have been mainly trojan time, along with forgetting the Windows password on a seldom-used but important PC. Read more
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Posted in utilities, Apple on April 11, 2010 at 1:37 pm
In France recently, we wished prices would go back in time. The best Muscadet we’ve ever had was from a cafe in Honfleur, one of the many tourist traps but serving a better meal than we can get at home. Their house wine was delicious at a reasonable 10 Euros a half-litre. But then, the wine invariably is good everywhere you go in France. Even in the smallest back-street café frequented by students, to the grottiest tabac where the owner still has a Gauloise glued to his bottom lip, albeit unlit but still with an inch of ash that seems to defy gravity. Read more
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Posted in utilities, Internet, iPhone, Apple on March 28, 2010 at 11:37 am
We had been sitting in a ferry station, with a ticket for a French location. All around us we could see, French truckers talking loudly. Our holiday was neatly planned with CoPliot Live and Garmin to hand. Read more
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