WriteRoom’s great as a full screen editor, but it has a hidden beauty as a windowed text editor too.
Look at it - gorgeous simplicity, green-on-black loveliness, and a live word count in the window’s title bar. I shall say that bit again: a live word count in the title bar. That’s the one feature [...]
I don’t do a lot of presentations. In fact, I don’t like presentations very much. I’ve been subjected to too many boring ones in my time, and have been guilty of delivering boring ones too.
But tomorrow I’m doing a talk in front of 50 or 60 media professionals at a conference in Bath, and [...]
The computer was on my lap, and I was halfway through reading a PDF document, when I noticed an odd beeping and ticking noise. At first I thought there must be a browser window open in the background, playing some irritating Flash content. But it was immediately apparent that the whole machine was locked up [...]
I have a Mac mini. I want to run it “headless”, and manage it over the network using Screen Sharing. It runs Leopard just fine. But there’s one minor problem that brings the whole plan crashing down around my ears, and having spent two whole evenings trying to fix it, I’m flummoxed.
The idea, you see, [...]
Stevenote absorbed, specs examined, and prices boggled at, and I’m thinking that a MacBook Air is not likely to be on my shopping list in the near future.
I don’t deny it looks wonderful, and I applaud Apple for having the courage to ditch the optical drive - something I’ve been hoping they’d do for years. [...]
Like a lot of people, I often stick iTunes on random and let it play anything it likes (unless I have to concentrate on some work, in which case only silence will do). I also like to rate songs, so that on the rare occasions when I’m devising playlists or transferring things to an iPod, [...]
Last week the Telegraph got in touch, saying please could I write something about iPhone hacks to tie in with the imminent iPhone launch in the UK. Sure, I said, be happy to. Can you do 1200 words, they said. No problem.
The article appeared today: Apple v the iHackers, and it has been cut back [...]
