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AirPrint to Any Printer with Printopia 4 Jun 2011 | 12:33 pm
This looks like a damn useful Mac app if you want to print via your iPhone/iPad and don’t have an AirPrint-compatible printer (i.e. most printers):
Dell finally gives in to Apple 26 May 2011 | 11:06 am
Dell: “OK Apple, you were right. You do design the best-looking laptops. So rather than trying to innovate, we’ll just copy yours (badly)!” That has to be the ugliest-looking keyboard I’ve ever seen....
Ars reviews the Motorola Xoom 18 Mar 2011 | 02:23 pm
Ars Technica’s in-depth review of the Motorola Xoom tablet includes this nugget: Getting music onto the device wasn’t as straightforward as I had hoped. Most Android phones have limited internal stor...
How to fix iOS Mail ‘Cannot Verify Server Identity’ error with self-signed certificates 26 Feb 2011 | 04:08 pm
Since upgrading my iPhone to iOS 4.2.1 I continually received this annoying popup every time I sent or received email: I use SSL for both sending and receiving email, and my mail server uses a self-s...
iMovie’s Dirty Little Secret: Colour Banding 27 Jan 2011 | 10:40 pm
(This one has been driving me nuts for weeks…) My new MacBook Pro came with iMovie ’09, so I decided to edit some 3-year-old DV tapes of my son that I still hadn’t dealt with. The output quality was ...
How to Import DV Clips into iMovie ’09, Preserving the Recording Dates 28 Dec 2010 | 09:45 pm
I recently started using iMovie ’09 on my new MacBook Pro. Since I had a few unfinished projects in my old iMovie HD (iMovie ’06) on my old iMac, I decided to import them to iMovie ’09 so I could edit...
MacBook Pro 17″ 2010 Review 30 Nov 2010 | 09:42 pm
I’ve been wanting to write this review for over a month, but various events such as babies, tummy bugs and flickering screens have got in the way. But all that stuff is (mostly) behind me now. So here...
A Tale of Two MacBook Pros, Flickering Screens, and AppleCare 29 Oct 2010 | 06:17 pm
Well, I must first apologize for the recent lack of updates. This is mainly due to our new baby daughter taking up a lot of my time, but it’s also due to a lot of faffing around with my new Mac – a st...
Time for a new Mac! 21 Aug 2010 | 01:54 pm
It’s over 4 years since I bought my first Mac: A lovely white iMac Core Duo 20″ (the first Intel iMac IIRC). It’s served me well over the years, but in the last few months it’s really started to slow ...
Antennagate: Why Didn’t Apple Pick A Better Weak Spot? 19 Jul 2010 | 12:09 pm
Like many people I’ve been following the iPhone 4 Antennagate issue with some interest, since I’m thinking about upgrading from my old iPhone 3G to the new iPhone 4 when it arrives here in Australia. ...