Archive for the 'Apple' Category
For one such as myself, mildly obsessive about type, the fact that since the Snow Leopard upgrade my system’s font usage has been completely fucked up is deeply upsetting.
It started shortly after the upgrade when the font menu started going squiffy in certain applications. Font A was substituted for Font B. Font C stopped working [...]
Filed under: Apple, Technology, Time-Wasters, omens and portents | 4 Comments
Tags: font conflicts, font problems, fonts, osx, Snow Leopard, type, typography
This story in the Telegraph made me chuckle. The Apple Store is supposedly the most profitable shop in London. More profitable than Harrods, Fortnum’s, the Pound Shop, even the Beatles Store on Baker St. They’re taking in £60 million a year, though how the turnover figure translates into profit is not explained. But as I [...]
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Fucking Hell! £200?
I see that the perfect christmas gift this year for a Guardian reader is The Beatles’ remastered box set in mono, a snip at just £200 (less 2p). That’s only £15.38 per disc, fact fans, a mere 200% of the standard price for an album on iTunes. For the privilege of hearing the mono versions [...]
Filed under: 1960s, Apple, Baby Boomers, Beatles, Entertainment, Music, Technology, marketing, sixties, weasels | 2 Comments
Tags: EMI
Cracked it
My MacBook is two years old this summer, and since it was less than a year old, it has had cracks in the case. I assumed I’d been closing the lid too aggressively, blamed myself, and (not being an MP), decided to live with what I’d done.
My solution to mitigate the damage, prevent dust incursion [...]
Filed under: Apple, Technology, secret girlfriends | 3 Comments
Tags: Apple store, customer service, moonies
Little Big Mac
I bought A Place to Land by Little BIg Town a while ago, but I’ve never really listened to it as an album. It’s been on the iPod, and I’m not even sure I’ve heard all of it yet. I’m only up to the Fs on my run through the 1000-song alphabet, but by coincidence [...]
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Tags: garageband, ilife, ilife '09
New faces
Just installed the new iLife ‘09, and iWork ‘09, as well as upgrading my laptop to 10.5.6. All went pretty smoothly, apart from the new version of Mail, which seems to have crapped out, and doesn’t display any mail at all, old or new. I’ve resorted to Thunderbird.
iPhoto ‘09 is the pick of the bunch. [...]
Filed under: Apple, Technology, photography | 1 Comment
Tags: ilife '09, imovie, iphoto, iwork '09, leopard, software
Dear Apple,
I just received an email from you with the subject, Make Your Customers Even Happier. Give iPod.
Now, I’ve not got any customers, sorry, unless you count my students, and I’m certainly not planning on giving those kind of corporate gifts to my students anytime soon. I’m giving them the gift of education. I’m inspiring young [...]
Filed under: Apple, Education, Family, Technology, autobiography, being chippy, marketing, teaching and learning | 2 Comments
Time-Warp Techno-Thrillers
I’m reading a book called Gridiron at the moment, by Philip Kerr. It was published in the mid-90s, and is a thriller set in a “smart building”, stuffed with supercomputers which run an artificial intelligence.
I love reading stuff like this that tries desperately to be super-up-to-date and spot-on-authentic, but ends up quickly dating itself. Another [...]
Filed under: Apple, Entertainment, SF, Technology, sci-fi, science fiction | 2 Comments
A short-lived enterprise
Although I applied to be an exam marker this summer, it turns out that I am unlikely to be able to do this, not because I’m not qualified, but because in the very near future all marking will take place on-line.
Yes, you think, the network is the computer and all that. There are plenty of [...]
Filed under: Apple, Conspiracy Theories, Education, Technology, ambitions in life, anxiety, omens and portents, paranoia, weasels | 1 Comment
Finally, a use for an iPod
Further to my remarks the other day about the detrimental social effects of personal music players, this little gadget, announced at the CES in Las Vegas, is a kind of new-age portastudio.
There have been solid-state multi-track recorders before (Tascam did one, the Pocketstudio 5), but they were aimed at musicians/songwriters on the move, whereas this [...]
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