Category Archives: Tech

The “I’m feeling lucky” presentation technique

My presentation in dev mode, as post-its on my office wall
So, like I said yesterday, I don’t do a lot of presentations. And, like I said yesterday, after finding a pretty fundamental flaw in Apple’s presentation app Keynote, I didn’t want to use it to display slides in front of a roomful of people. So [...]

Keynote is killing me

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 [...]

Red Five standing by

Am I the only one excited by the current goings-on in orbit, where experiments are underway to make sure that the freighter Jules Verne can dock itself safely to the International Space Station?
You have to look at this footage of the practice manoeuvres. It’s so exciting! Jules Verne (or Automated Transfer Vehicle, to give it [...]

Ten web memes that failed

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My Favorite Frameset
Lolhats
The Hampstead Dance
Shot or not?
100 things about me you already knew
Ze Frank’s Daily Accounting
45things
Macs in dresses!
International Talk Like a Banker Day

I’d rather have an Eee

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. [...]

Whistle while you rate

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, [...]

Recursive Screen Sharing in Leopard

This is just *nuts*.

Black Lego desktop

As found at Made in England by Gentlemen.

Leopard: mostly good

It’s not like me to rush into installing new operating systems, but I really was keen to see what Leopard could offer. And anyway, I had a couple of spare Macs lying around with nothing to do. So when the shiny box dropped through my front door last Friday morning, I settled down for a [...]

Instant Spotlight shortcuts with Spotlight comments

So you’re impressed by the faster Spotlight searching in Leopard, and want to try using it more often to find stuff. You find that there’s a folder you want quick access to, but its name is too generic, and gets swamped by too many other Spotlight results. You want your chosen folder or file to [...]