In the short time since my previous post about my cracked Macbook i’ve been doing a bit of research and have found identical issues. Here is a pic with the same problem in the same place, via this thread on Macrumours: Uploaded with plasq‘s Skitch! There’s even a Flickr group for this problem and an [...]
Post MWSF Keynote shopping list
Definitely want to pick up the 1TB Time Capsule, much easier than remembering to connect up my external drive every night! Also, i’m considering picking up an Apple TV to replace the old Mac Mini I have under my TV at the moment (Which i’m going to relocate to the music room to use as [...]
OS X: Finder won't quit (WindowServer process?)
My last post mentioned that I was having some intermittant issues with my Macbook after resuming from sleep, in that after entering my password I just got a blank screen. Key presses result in an error tone and I have to close the lid and reopen it to gain access to OS X. It just [...]
OS X: Finder won't quit – Logout Timeout
I’ve noticed a few problems with OS X on my Macbook over the last couple of weeks. I’ve got added ‘Keychain Access’ to my menubar (or toolbar – the one up the top anyway) so that I can just hit ‘Lock Screen’ when I step away from my machine at work. In general it’s been [...]
Renaming folders/tags in Google Reader
I can’t believe that there isn’t a built in way to rename tags within the Google Reader UI! Shocking. Quickest way I’ve found is to export your feeds (Settings | Import / Export), edit the XML by hand (fortunately my 100 or so feeds are organised within ~12 folders), delete all of your subs from [...]
Project Euler
I came across Project Euler this evening via this post. Project Euler is a series of challenging mathematical/computer programming problems that will require more than just mathematical insights to solve. Although mathematics will help you arrive at elegant and efficient methods, the use of a computer and programming skills will be required to solve most [...]
More iPhone chatter…
I caught this post on the BBC News site, which pretty much echoes (almost exactly ) my comments a few weeks back. Some of the comments make interesting reading, people are so quick to jump on the ‘hate it ‘cos it’s a brand’ bandwagon. I really wonder how long it will take before people are [...]
Free Trac and SVN hosting
I’ve been getting really pissed off trying to install Trac to my Dreamhost shared server, to the extent that i’m contemplating moving hosts. In the interim, DevJaVu have just started to offer free Personal accounts that include integrate Trac and SVN. All you need to do is sign up using the referal code johnny5. I [...]
VMWare Fusion and network bridging
** UPDATED MARCH 12 2010: I just posted my solution to this problem here ** I’ve had VMWare Fusion running an image of my work laptop, on my Macbook, for nearly three weeks now. I’ve had no problems at all, running over both NAT and via network bridge. Until this week. Now, when I try [...]
Quick iPhone wish list
With rumours of a pre-Christmas firmware update to 1.1.3, here’s my wish list. I’d probably forgo the Jailbreak for these – currently I only really use the MobileScrobbler app from the iPhone dev scene but i’m finding that it keeps logging me out and doesn’t cache track plays. Everything else seems to pretty much be [...]