Make: Online : Mechanical reproduction of digitized speech on a piano
This is very cool - using mechanical actuators to work a piano's keyboard (a proper piano, not an electronic one) they generate recognisable speech. Make: On...
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Technical notes and observations from years of supporting creative businesses on Mac.
User Interface Hall of Shame
Here's the first entry in my very own User Interface HALL OF SHAME. (Yes, it's in all caps, as it's in a deep, booming voice with plenty of reverb.) This is...
Read post →Adobe Creative Suite 3 Known Issues with Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard
Here is a list of known issues from Adobe for Creative Suite 3 on Snow Leopard: Adobe Creative Suite 3 Known Issues with Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard . None of...
Read post →How Mac OS X reports drive capacity
Interesting technote to read from Apple - they are changing the way that Mac OS X 10.6 reports the size of a disk. In the past, they have used 1MB=1024kB and...
Read post →Adobe Snow Leopard FAQ
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 deve...
Read post →Tech Support Cheat Sheet - xkcd
This is pretty well spot-on - print it out and keep it handy to save calling me. xkcd - A Webcomic - Tech Support Cheat Sheet .
Read post →Fast Wireless Data
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 ima...
Read post →Weird iCal Server Issue
I had an issue today where a client's iCal Server logs would show lots of: "Unable to find any record with GUID..." events, constantly. iCal was slowing down...
Read post →Outlook for Mac OS X
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 w...
Read post →Managing UI Complexity
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 complex...
Read post →Final Cut Pro glitches when importing AVCHD footage
I encountered an issue recently where Final Cut Pro will jitter and glitch out every half a second or so when importing AVCHD footage from a Sony HD camcorde...
Read post →Mac OS X Upgrades
Spotted around the interwebs recently is a Windows 7 Upgrade Chart that details which versions of Windows can be upgraded to Windows 7 by upgrading in place,...
Read post →The mysterious case of the missing Ethernet port
I encountered a really strange issue with a Mac mini functioning as a small workgroup file server. The mini had dropped off the network and no-one could acce...
Read post →E-mail Download Issue in Entourage With Exchange 2007 on Windows 2008
I encountered an issue with a client today where there were emails missing from their inbox in Entourage, yet when the user viewed their inbox in either Outl...
Read post →Mac OS X 10.5.8
The 10.5.8 Update is recommended for all users running Mac OS X Leopard and includes general operating system fixes that enhance the stability, compatibility...
Read post →Online typography is looking better with .webfont
It is looking increasing like the proposed .webfont file format for embeddable/downloadable fonts will be the standard, and will be supported in CSS3 . Safar...
Read post →How VMware Fusion Rocks
VMware Fusion is a great piece of software from one of the world leaders in virtualisation technology, VMware . There are other alternatives for virtualisati...
Read post →Car scheme out of cash
Who would have thought that there were that many crap cars in the USA? Car scheme out of cash . The Government program to get old clunkers off the road, by o...
Read post →Impossible Pie
This dessert is so easy to make, you can throw it together in about 5 minutes and then in the oven it goes where it makes itself for you. Ingredients 4 Eggs...
Read post →Windows Anytime Upgrade and Family Pack Pricing - Windows 7 Team Blog - The Windows Blog
Microsoft have announced the Anytime upgrade pricing for Windows 7. Essentially this allows you to upgrade your currently running copy of Windows 7 to a more...
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