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
Rated: 100% (3 votes)
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By Mark Tennent in Reader
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
Rated: 100% (3 votes)
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By Mark Tennent in Reader
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
Rated: 100% (2 votes)
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By Mark Tennent in Reader
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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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
Rated: 73.33% (3 votes)
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By Mark Tennent in Reader
Posted in Gripes moans and whinges, utilities, Broadband, Internet, iPhone, Microsoft, Apple on February 14, 2010 at 2:00 pm
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
Rated: 100% (3 votes)
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By Mark Tennent in Reader
Posted in Gripes moans and whinges, utilities, Security, Microsoft, Apple, Uncategorized on January 17, 2010 at 4:37 pm
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
Rated: 96.67% (6 votes)
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By Mark Tennent in Reader
Posted in utilities, Internet, Apple on January 4, 2010 at 2:21 pm
We used to live near a dentist who ran his entire operation in an Hypercard stack he devised himself. All patient information, treatments, appointments and bills were handled by his stack, running on one of those original, all-in-one Macs which us old hands think of as definitive. No colour, no sound, tiny screen, clunky operating system, no multi-tasking and a mouse the size of a house brick. But a graphical operating system from the days when windows were holes in buildings. Read more
Rated: 100% (3 votes)
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By Mark Tennent in Reader
Posted in utilities, iPhone, Uncategorized on November 27, 2009 at 7:21 pm
“Ha! You won’t need to take your Garmin with you”, said Claudia, the CoPilot expert. Hmmm. Since when can a £27 smartphone app. take the place of a £100+ dedicated GPS navigation device? Read more
Rated: 80% (4 votes)
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By Mark Tennent in Reader
Posted in utilities, Internet, iPhone, Apple on October 25, 2009 at 1:57 pm
We have a hand-held vacuum cleaner in our kitchen. It replaced various rechargeable ones, all of which promised to suck so hard you’d stick to the ceiling but delivered a mouse fart for the five seconds the battery lasted. Our new one is 750 watts of 1970s technology, with a power cable long enough to clean the kitchen from one socket and a vacuum which can pluck a fly in mid-buzz at 50 paces. Read more
Rated: 86.67% (3 votes)
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