Antennagate: Why Didn’t Apple Pick A Better Weak Spot?
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....
View ArticleTime for a new Mac!
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...
View ArticleA Tale of Two MacBook Pros, Flickering Screens, and AppleCare
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...
View ArticleMacBook Pro 17″ 2010 Review
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...
View ArticleHow to Import DV Clips into iMovie ’09, Preserving the Recording Dates
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...
View ArticleiMovie’s Dirty Little Secret: Colour Banding
(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...
View ArticleHow to fix iOS Mail ‘Cannot Verify Server Identity’ error with self-signed...
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...
View ArticleArs reviews the Motorola Xoom
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...
View ArticleDell finally gives in to Apple
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....
View ArticleAirPrint to Any Printer with Printopia
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):
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