Red's Ramblings v.2

The networking in Leopard is particularly good with any available devices automatically being listed in the finder. I didn’t give it a thought until a Vaio I had on the network showed up on the side of the finder under “Shared” devices. What isn’t instantly obvious though is its icon that you can only really [...]

You may have noticed that on Friday I collected a copy of Mac OSX 10.5 Leopard. I arrived at the Trafford Centre with an hour to spare before the 6pm re-opening and by that time there was already a queue of around 60-70 people. Some free water, coffee and the efforts of the Apple Store [...]

Today has been mapped out with meticulous detail to ensure that I am in a specific place and at a specific time, the Apple Store at 6pm. Up to now all is going to plan and I aim to keep it that way so for those of you who may have aspirations of interacting with [...]

As I post there’s that long to go… Tomorrow at 6pm I’ll be about to buy a copy of Leopard but as I watch the clock ticking I’ve started to feel apprehensive. I should be all relaxed about it but the fact that they’ve put a time on it has got my mind running overtime. [...]

Macworld: Editors’ Notes: Has Time Machine’s AirPort Disk use been grounded? This is a bit worrying considering my comments of yesterday. If the feature has been removed I would find it hard to believe that its down to network performance as the use of “another Mac running Leopard with Personal File Sharing.” would also be [...]

Following in the footsteps of many others I decided to clean my keyboard. It was looking decidedly grubby, and while I had dealt with the same problem in the past by pairing up my old dirty keyboard with a Mac Mini and sticking a new and clean keyboard on the PowerMac, I’m currently watching the [...]

There are many occasions when I’ve needed to diagnose a technical problem and I’m always glad of as much detail as possible. The downside of this is that users have a habit of going off at a tangent with unnecessary information or try to diagnose the problem themselves and add incorrect opinion. Anyone who does [...]

Work has not treated me kindly of recent and despite my best efforts there seems to be no upturn. With the situation as it is I’ve decided to look around for alternative employment either permanent or on a contract basis. It’s not been an easy decision as I have existing clients that I still deal [...]