Red's Ramblings v.2

Its nearly birthday time again, Monday to be exact and I’ve had a couple of presents early. With the new MacBook Pro in place I thought it a shame to put it in my old Crumpler Crippy Duck, besides the PowerBook was still in there. So I went on the look out for something new [...]

Dear Steve, You may be aware that I’m going on holiday (sorry ‘vacation’) on July 11th, the very same day that you probably will be releasing the iPhone firmware and the iPhone App Store. I leave very early and it is unlikely that I will have chance to update before leaving or will have Internet [...]

Thanks EA.. you never cease to amaze me on how annoying you can be

The .me domain and the Mobile Me rumour had been knocking round for a few weeks before the WWDC and during that time it had been bugging me at how kak it sounded rather than dot Mac. It wasn’t until I saw the keynote that I remembered that it hadn’t been conceived this side of [...]

or iPhone/iPod Touch friendliness at least… I’ve just added a WordPress pluging for extra Appley gooness. iWPhone WordPress Plugin and Theme | iWPhone WordPress Plugin and Theme

Macworld | Mac OS X Hints | Add more power to 10.5′s screen sharing I was looking for a some XP remote desktop style privacy when screen sharing and found this excellent tip. Just open terminal (close screen sharing if you have a session open) and type: defaults write com.apple.ScreenSharing \ ‘NSToolbar Configuration ControlToolbar’ -dict-add [...]

I just spotted an email sat in my junk mail folder from Sky touting their new Sky Anytime player. The small print at the bottom amused me. “PC with Microsoft Windows XP or Vista or Mac with compatible virtualisation software required.” So that would be XP and Vista them and you just wanted to get [...]

Pete Callaway gave me a heads up this morning with a Twitter that arrived on my phone via SMS. Indeed I had been waiting for an update to the Airport Extreme’s disk functionality to allow it to work with Time Machine, something that has had numerous mentions in this very blog. I downloaded the update [...]

Along with many other of my Mac ‘nerd’ brethren I sat at my screen yesterday using whatever resources were at hand to monitor proceedings in Steve’s MacWorld keynote. I settled on an IRC channel and a dodgy live video feed that got rumbled by security half way through. I’d seen all the rumours and had [...]

I just came across a desktop screen shot that had stack items in a drawer. With a little digging I found this blog translation based on an original Japanese post on downloading and using the overlay icons. I’ve just put them over my stacks and they not only look cool but also a lot tidier [...]