Red's Ramblings v.2

Its often good practice to slow down, stop and take a look around. That’s just what I’m doing now. Its a quiet Sunday morning post Christmas and Boxing Day. Having sat in front of the screen for a while catching up on the news and my dismal Fantasy Premier league score this week I realised [...]

I have VMWare on my MacBook Pro but its only for occasional admin work. I get the impression on performance that I’d be better with a Boot Camp install but i don’t want to reboot or have another full OS install. I spotted an article on iGadget Life the other day that suggested using CrossOver [...]

To commemorate Talk Like A Pirate Day 2009 I give all you iPhone/iPod Touch users my current wallpaper (for the day anyway).

I thought it best to do a summary of recent events so as not to have such a backlog of things I wanted to mention that it prevented me posting anything at all.
The holiday went well. We’d opted to go to our friends apartment again. Its in a brilliant location in Arenal D’en Castell on [...]

Frustratingly and not for the first time this week I was half a mile into a run and realised that I hadn’t activated the sensor. Or I should say that I did activate it but it went to sleep again before I started running. It may have been that the auto-lock on the phone kicked [...]

I’ve often said that the additions to the iPhone in 3.0 and 3GS are so subtle you often struggle to list the new features when someone asks. It is usually the case that you end up using a new feature and then realise that it wasn’t there before. I think that’s kind of the point. [...]

I’ve always had an on off relationship with video. I have a few holiday sequences much of which is from some time back and the edited footage is on VCD with the source long since deleted (I still have all the original footage on tape). One project that I have always been meaning to tackle [...]

When people ask me about the new iPhone 3GS the feature that gets shown least is the voice control. Not that it’s not notable but because I just forget its there. Having said that when I have used it (when I remember) it is very good. I’m amazed at how accurate it is even with [...]

With 32GB being rolled out on the iPhone I thought I’d write up a little gotcha that has a very simple solution.
For some time now I’ve been without my 60GB iPod. Since it was stolen I never replaced it and I’d got by with a selection of playlists on my 16GB 3G iPhone. Now with [...]

I thought it only fitting that the post new phone entry came from the phone itself. I was going to use the Wordpress app that I have but after realising that I would have to manually enter my categories I switched to iBlogger. The main drawback is that I can only use the portrait keyboard. [...]