I have spent way to much of my precious time picking holes in the iPod.
On Saturday (after watching Leamington scrape an FA Vase victory away against Croydon, then getting a meal in London waiting for our discount train tickets to become valid), we passed the Apple Store on Regent St. and popped in to […]
While my hosting people beaver away fixing my database issue (not paying for backups, and not bothering to take my own, I won’t be surprised if all comments get lost), [Update: look, they fixed it with no losses. Hooray.] let’s take our minds off things by watching how Apple lies to you.
Here: […]
all i want for christmas is…… - (Flickr user JJ*).
Damn them. Damn them.
You know how I feel about the iPod — I use it every day, but wish they’d fix some of those niggling user interface issues.
The iPod Nano is a very small object of great desire though. Look how small it is! It […]
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iTunes 4.9 is out, and the big new feature is built-in podcasting support. This means you can subscribe to a programme, and it will automatically download in the background and show up in your library when new content is available. If you have a portable MP3 player, new podcasts will be uploaded to it […]
Debbie’s iPod Mini kicked the bucket after only a month’s light use — it made poorly hard disk noises (yuk, I’ve heard those before), then displayed a picture of a sad iPod. So, we got to try out Apple’s repair service, under warranty.
Here’s how it works: On Thursday 9th June, I signed into the […]
OK, it’s nearly time for the hartnup.net Macintosh 2005 judgement, but before I look at the whole, I can’t resist getting a little bit more specific, and talking about one application: iPhoto, and its primary Windows competition, Picasa 2.
(Moved the rest of this behemoth post to a page outside the blog)
The iTunes Music Store makes it very easy to browse and preview music for purchase. The prices are reasonable.
But, I won’t buy music from iTunes, nor from any of its similar competitors. The problem is the DRM. Apologists (pragmatists, even) point out that Apple gives you “generous” fair use rights, but the fact remains […]
While I was playing with the Mac last night, Debbie was struggling to get to a position where she could play with her posh blue iPod mini.
iTunes installer would run, during which its directory would appear in “C:\Program Files”, then promptly disappear.
So, in case it should help you:
iTunes installer doesn’t work in Windows XP […]
I was just about ready to write a whingeing piece about the Apple online store’s delivery process — and I may yet — but our Mac Mini has finally arrived, and with it Debbie’s iPod Mini, which surely we should have got within days of ordering it.
Never mind.
The Mini is up and running, and […]
My Apple stuff’s been shipped, so I suppose I’ll receive it on Tuesday. Dratted bank holidays!
Ars Technica has just published a gloriously technical overview of Mac OS X Tiger. It makes me feel a lot more comfortable about my forthcoming Mac experience, by being very Unix-y indeed:
% ls -la
…
-rwxrwxrwx 1 john […]