Archive for the ‘Mac’ Category

Two sides to every “truth”

Wednesday, March 12th, 2008

It was nice to see a Belfast Blogger on Macsurfer this morning though it went a little sour when I read the comments. The biggest thing I like about blogging is the potential for conversation and by extension, for resolution. It's also an opportunity to present both sides of a "truth" ...

Steve Jobs on Market Share

Thursday, March 6th, 2008

It was difficult for a while because for various reasons the Mac had not been accepted by a lot of people, who went with Windows. And we were just working really hard, and our market share wasn't going up. It makes you wonder sometimes whether you're wrong. Maybe our stuff ...

NiMUG meeting Monday 24th March

Thursday, March 6th, 2008

Yes, it's Easter Monday but don't let that stop you. Here's the details.

You ratted me out, you dirty rat…

Thursday, January 24th, 2008

Damien posted this link to a story on the Machinist blog about how smartphones (and not just iPhones) can get you into trouble. One exception to this is a search incident to arrest -- if the police are arresting you, they can search you and your possessions without first obtaining ...

Map of Free WiFi in Ireland (and the Black North)

Thursday, January 24th, 2008

James, the EirePreneur, is maintaining a map of Free (or cheap) WiFi hotspots in Ireland. Log into GMail and then you can add extras. I've added a few in the North, mostly centred around McDonalds (which explains why I look like I've been Supersized). Add some more in? What about your ...

Will Shipley on the MacBook Air

Wednesday, January 16th, 2008

He likes it The criticism all basically goes like this: "It's not like a MacBook Pro!" Quite.

MWSF2008: The Good, the Bad and the Fugly

Wednesday, January 16th, 2008

Every year we wait for the new and sparkly stuff from Apple and we often get it. The move to Intel. The iPhone. the 17" and 12" Powerbooks wayback when. This year is no different. We have a new subnotebook, software updates and a glimpse into Apple's plans for ...

Linux is perfect.

Friday, January 4th, 2008

Mark Pilgrim moved his parents to Linux because their Mac experience was souring.: I had originally chosen Kontact/Kmail for their email needs, but I ran into some strange bug where Kmail refused to send messages. Basic functionality, right? You’d think someone would, you know, notice. I realize email standards are wide ...

Content Theft, alive and well. (One for the Cocoa fans)

Saturday, December 22nd, 2007

Cool, I didn't know you could just grab entire articles from the IntarWeb and publish them wholesale without even giving an attribution link! That's what Rixstep has done? Scott Anguish, one of the nicest guys on the Intarweb is more than a little upset because Rixstep has repeatedly refused to remove his ...

Actually, this is quite annoying

Tuesday, December 18th, 2007

Intuit recently issued an update for QuickBooks which, due to some fuckedupness deletes the entire desktop folder. That's pretty serious shit right there. RixStep, the whiner of the week, was caught by this bug but blames Apple. I'm not sure how "unsafe" code written by Intuit really qualifies as being ...