The Amazing Kalyway Disk

What to do with my ‘old’ Windows PC? Asus M2N32-SLI Deluxe motherboard, AMD Athlon 64 X2 5600+, 2Gb
of RAM and a very respectable if a little dated 256Mb nVIDIA 7300GT graphics card. All in all not a bad piece of kit. However as an XP machine it had it’s quirks like every so often it [...]

Fenêtres Volantes

For the seven months or so I have owned a Mac, I have completely ignored the screensaver and now it’s time to put that right. So, here’s a shameless plug for Fenetres Volantes (flying windows to you and me). It is cool in its simplicity, and when you see it you’ll understand why. Your windows, [...]

Logitech QuickCam Vision Pro

Some time back, I bought a Logitech QuickCam Pro 9000 for my Windows PC and ultimately moved it on to my Mac when that became my ‘main’ machine. It worked pretty well a few notable exceptions – the ‘intelligent face tracking’, RightSound and digital zoom features didn’t work (as these required the Windows software to [...]

My (all things Apple) wish list

While I ponder whether or not the Logitech QuickCam Vision Pro was such a good purchase, I thought I might bore the world with my Apple/Mac wish list. So here (in no particular order) are the things I wish were different in my Mac-esque world:

A Logitech webcam with a microphone that supports OS X Speech [...]

Making sense of Spaces with dual monitors

From my days of running a PC and a Mac side-by-side, I am lucky enough to still have a 22″ and a 24″ monitor sitting on my desk. The PC is hooked up to the 22″ Samsung but rarely gets switched on these days, while the Mac Pro is hooked up to both.
As I work [...]

A heart felt plea to Steve Jobs

I enjoy using my Apple products as much as the next man, and (shock, horror) I also own and use products that have nothing to do with Apple. So why does Apple insist on tainting the experience by forcing me to do things I don’t want to?
Now Steve, I know you are rich beyond most [...]

Mounting Windows network drives at login (OS X tip)

Windows users will be familiar with the ability to map network drives and to have those drives connect automatically when they next login to their PC. For all its ease-of-use, Mac OS X seems to lack that ‘Reconnect at logon‘ functionality, forcing users to come up with an alternative.
As a new Mac user I hunted [...]

iPhone 3G and the Griffin Wave case

On the practical side of things, I’ve been looking for a second iPhone 3G case – one that lets you use all the features of the phone, rather than the ‘tuck it away’ leather slip case I bought. I’ve always known that Griffin make good products so I was fairly confident that after some good [...]

It doesn’t take a Genius

One of the rumoured new features in iTunes 8 is the Genius which according to Kevin Rose’s blog “makes playlists from songs in your library that go great together“. That got me thinking… how will it achieve that?
I can see it working in one of two ways. Firstly there’s the algorithm method – some clever [...]

Syncing Entourage 2008 with my iPhone via MobileMe

Yes I’ve complained enough in the past that Entourage 2008 is always the runner-up when it comes to Apple functionality, and getting calendar events from Entourage on to your iPhone via MobileMe reconfirms this.
You see MobileMe knows nothing about Entourage whatsoever, all it understands is iCal. BUT… if you want to add events to your [...]