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October 8, 2009

Charlie’s Diary: Jeff Bezos Eats Kittens

A post on why the Kindle now being sold worldwide isn't to everyone's liking - this is from the sci-fi author Charlie Stross. Basically, Amazon are screwing down the price on eBooks and it's not Amazon that are hurting from...
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September 21, 2009

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 one that has bugged me for years, and when...
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September 1, 2009

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 1GB=1024MB, but now in line with standard SI Units,...
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August 27, 2009

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 development resources away from CS5 to fix any bugs in CS3 that appear...
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August 22, 2009

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 images and data from the orbiter at an unusually fast rate. It is the first high...
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August 19, 2009

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 for everyone, server-based calendars either took ages to update with changes, or...
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August 17, 2009

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 was OS 9, we had Office 2001 and there...
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