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Stuffed, Compacted and Doubled

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Posted in QuarkXPress, utilities, Video capture, Apple, Uncategorized on May 19, 2010 at 9:11 am

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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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Apple refuses to program for Adobe

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Posted in utilities, QuarkXPress, Gripes moans and whinges, Images, iPhone, Apple on April 25, 2010 at 2:57 pm

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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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‘Something’ in the way we work

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Posted in Gripes moans and whinges, Security, Apple on April 18, 2010 at 12:36 pm

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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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Subnet full of zeros

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Posted in utilities, Apple on April 11, 2010 at 1:37 pm

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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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Rouen Bound

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Posted in utilities, Internet, iPhone, Apple on March 28, 2010 at 11:37 am

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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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CoPilot Live’s wheels within wheels

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Posted in utilities, Internet, iPhone, Apple, Uncategorized on March 7, 2010 at 4:36 pm

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Dawn and I are the only Mac users in the office. We struggle with Windows, trying not to fight it but instead attempt to engage with a different operating system. After all, its interface was ripped-off from Apple many years ago so it can’t be that different? Can it? Read more

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He, the usurper, must choose

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Posted in Gripes moans and whinges, utilities, Broadband, Internet, iPhone, Microsoft, Apple on February 14, 2010 at 2:00 pm

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Later this week two of us are driving a few hundred miles to HQ to be shown the new database which will be implemented on April Fools’ Day. A date which is inevitably going to be a joke when it’s something to do with new computers and software, all going live at the same time. Read more

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Grandma’s new Siemens

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Posted in Internet, Apple, Uncategorized on February 7, 2010 at 3:32 pm

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My mother in law got a new washing machine yesterday. Not normally the topic of a magazine devoted to IT professionals but stay with the thought. Read more

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iPad Mini

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Posted in iPod, iPhone, Apple on January 31, 2010 at 3:45 pm

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Size isn’t everything, as many men have been reassured. Or so I have been informed. They might get a sneaking feeling that perhaps they have let down in some area and maybe dimensions and pleasure have something to do with it. Read more

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Canned Heat

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Posted in Gripes moans and whinges, utilities, Security, Microsoft, Apple, Uncategorized on January 17, 2010 at 4:37 pm

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Is there anything worse than the hypocrites who insist on organic, forgetting the food miles their Scottish salmon cost compared with the line-caught mackerel from the end of the road? Then drive the X5 a half mile to little Matthew and Jessica’s Steiner school and never take a bag with them to John Lewis. Read more

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