Archive for the 'Technology' 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
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
First things first, I got a new barbecue, as I threatened to do a few days ago. Homebase (UK DIY and home/garden retailer) is having a 15%-off-everything day today and tomorrow, and they already had a cheaper version of the Weber Spirit 210 on offer, so getting an extra 15% off saved me £40 off [...]
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Tags: Delicious, MacHeist, software
On Making Music
Saturday Night – Download link
There are at least three different reasons why I love making music, none of which has anything to do with how talented I think I am.
The second reason has to do with the technology. Even after all these years, I’m still amazed that my humble little iMac can be used as [...]
Filed under: Arrested Development, Character, Entertainment, Music, Songs, Technology, happiness | 5 Comments
Tags: pro tools, recording
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
Full-frame or bust
Instead of buying myself a new digital SLR, as I’d been thinking of doing for a long time, I bought my wife an ultra-compact, a Canon Ixus 80 IS, which is a nice little thing, very well put together. It does 8 megapixels and has a 3x zoom; more importantly, it is pocket-sized. It has [...]
Filed under: Technology, available light, low-light, photography | 6 Comments
Tags: canon, nikon, olympus, slr
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
Something Old Something Flue
room_with_a_flue, originally uploaded by mcmrbt.
The woodburner is in. The installation coincided with the best weather of the year so far.
The job is far from complete, so we won’t be paying for it yet. They’ve got some making good to do where the old gas fire was removed, and they need to fit some lead flashing [...]
Filed under: Climate, Education, Family, Flickr, Technology, climate change, happiness, summer, teaching and learning | 2 Comments
Tags: energy, fire, heating, stove, woodburner
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
