The announcement this week that Apple were releasing the latest update for the Mac operating system has been much reported. Apple stated a while ago that this latest release was more about refinements than new features, but sometimes refinements are better. The upgrade price from Leopard is merely £25, which raises the question as to […]
Category Archives: macolatry
Firefox 3.5 and the brave new world
I downloaded Firefox 3.5 for my Mac this morning – after carefully checking that it would work with my plugins, especially the beloved Zotero. The new features list is a variable set, but one of the more remarkable is its ability to send information about your whereabouts to Google, who then can plot your position […]
Dim the lights baby …
Here’s another computer nostalgia post coming up… Those of us who grew up either using old VDUs or early CP/M or MSDOS computers may sometimes long for the simplicity of a black-on-white white-on-black screen when we’re writing. I must say that I find it: More soothing on the eyes Less distracting than a fully-lit screen […]
OpenOffice and Zotero
Today I discovered Zotero. I gave over my day off to some preparation towards upping my academic activity as the year progresses. I have already decided to move over from Microsoft Word to OpenOffice. This is largely because I have never liked MS Word 2003 for the Mac. It has too much clutter and too […]
OS X Leopard
In case you haven’t noticed (ha!) Apple announced the release of the new version of OS X (“Leopard”) yesterday. I remember I was in Pasadena when Tiger was released, and there was a line of students queuing down Mainstreet outside the Apple Shop before it opened at 10am to buy their copy. Such dedication by […]
Is that an iPod in your pocket …
This has got to be one of the sillier stories to attract my attention recently: a man’s mother is claiming her son’s trousers (‘pants’ in Americanese) were set alight by his iPod nano whilst working at Atlanta International Airport.
Blogging from Greenbelt (again)
I have had to endure lots of grief this year from Foundation members for my Greenbelt blogging escapade last year. This year, they asked me to take my MacBook Pro to help with the videos for the service that Foundation is running tonight (Friday). People are curiously silent about the teases this time around. A […]
Computer-geek heaven (ii) – look, I’m the boss!
Alright, so I know some readers of this blog just hate my geeky posts, so I promise this is going to be the last for a bit, so don’t unsubscribe me, OK? I mentioned in the first of these that I’m now enjoying a sense of being in control (Linux/Mac) rather than being in the […]
Computer-geek heaven (i) – Getting under the surface of the Mac
Well it doesn’t need me to admit on this blog that I took my laptop away with me on holiday a couple of weeks ago. When I wasn’t surfing and drinking down at the Blue Bar, I had set the time aside to really get to know my MacBook Pro. Perhaps it was the experience […]
Mac OS X: Leopard starts to show its spots
There’s been a sneak peek available at the forthcoming version of OS X (the Apple Operating system, for those off the planet) for some while now. At 10am PST (6pm BST) Steve Jobs did his usual annual keynote speech to the WWDC (worldwide developers conference – normally held in California!). These are masterful performances: a […]