iPhoney insurance
By Mark Tennent in Reader
Posted in Uncategorized on June 11, 2010 at 5:18 pm
Everyone knows cellphone insurance is a rip-off, or is it? Read more
Earl Grey, computing’s future?
By Mark Tennent in Reader
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
What a waste
By Mark Tennent in Reader
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
Stuffed, Compacted and Doubled
By Mark Tennent in Reader
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
Streaming abdabs
By Mark Tennent in Reader
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
Lost again
By Mark Tennent in Reader
Posted in Uncategorized on March 14, 2010 at 11:55 am
Belt and braces seems the best solution. We will try our brand new version of CoPilot Live but take our Garmin and print the route from Google maps as a last resort. Then shout at each other like in the good old days. Read more
CoPilot Live’s wheels within wheels
By Mark Tennent in Reader
Posted in utilities, Internet, iPhone, Apple, Uncategorized on March 7, 2010 at 4:36 pm
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
Losers and Winners
By Mark Tennent in Reader
Posted in Uncategorized on February 28, 2010 at 7:24 pm
That Apple Computer, what a bunch of losers! Hold on, this is written with the best of intentions so hear me out. Read more
Can bytes help the bitten
By Mark Tennent in Reader
Posted in Internet, Uncategorized on February 21, 2010 at 4:17 pm
My mum was mauled by a Mastiff this week. An elderly lady has been horribly wounded, her life ruined and for all we know, possibly shortened.
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Grandma’s new Siemens
By Mark Tennent in Reader
Posted in Internet, Apple, Uncategorized on February 7, 2010 at 3:32 pm
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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