Archive for August, 2009:
Adobe Snow Leopard FAQ
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The sky isn’t falling – Adobe clarify their position on the Creative Suite apps and Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard. Essentially Adobe aren’t going to divert development resources away from CS5 to fix any bugs in CS3 that appear with Snow Leopard, however from initial reports, it all generally works anyway. John Nack on [...]
Tech Support Cheat Sheet – xkcd
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This is pretty well spot-on – print it out and keep it handy to save calling me. xkcd – A Webcomic – Tech Support Cheat Sheet.
Fast Wireless Data
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This is simply incredible A 13-inch-long tube, called a Traveling Wave Tube Amplifier, is making it possible for scientists to receive massive amounts of images and data from the orbiter at an unusually fast rate. It is the first high data rate K-band transmitter to fly on a NASA spacecraft. With this new amplifier, LRO [...]
Weird iCal Server Issue
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Problem in iCal Server: Server logs show lots of: “Unable to find any record with GUID…” errors after deleting users from the Mac OS X Server directory.
Outlook for Mac OS X
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Over on the Office for Mac Team Blog is a rather exiting announcement that Outlook is to make it’s long awaited return to Mac OS X. Back in the day, there was OS 9, we had Office 2001 and there was a freely downloadable version of Outlook for Mac, called Outlook 2001. Outlook 2001 was [...]
Managing UI Complexity
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A really good article for anyone interested in User Interface design on managing complexity. There are some great points raised that it’s not overall complexity that needs to be addressed as such, but rather perceived complexity. Perceived complexity can be managed by either reducing the actual complexity (removing unnecessary choices etc) or by utilising clean, [...]
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