My Apple wishlist – updated

Back in September 2009, I had a rush of blood to the head and wrote a list of all the things I’d like in the Apple world. Nearly two years later I thought it would be interesting to revisit the list to see what has materialized, and what is still just a pipe dream for [...]

Creating WordPress blog entries with the iPad app

Can you really just grab your iPad as you walk out the door then happily create WordPress blog entries while you’re on the move? Well that’s my objective. I’m somewhere interesting, camera in one hand, iPad in the other, ready to let the world know with a new blog entry… Well that’s the theory, so [...]

iOS 4.x = sloPhone 3G

Every so often I have one of those dreams… you know the ones. You’re somewhere and you’re running, but for some reason you’re getting nowhere. It’s like you’re running in slow-motion or you’re waist-deep in treacle and hardly moving. You feel helpless. Eventually you wake up and if you remembered the dream you breathe a [...]

I’m being tempted away from my Mac…

My step-mother has a Sony Vaio laptop that has to be about 5 or 6 years old and runs Windows XP. Her needs are simple, but she comes from a generation that really doesn’t get computers. She refers to the hourglass timer as a ‘christmas cracker’ and has no idea that Windows Explorer and Internet [...]

QuickBitz – Facebook snooping on me?

Love it or loathe it, Facebook is a phenomenon that’s here to stay it seems and of course this is in spite of numerous privacy concerns that are being raised. I applaud the concept of Facebook in bringing people together and letting those people share their lives more, but as with many things in this [...]

iPad – Little known difference between UK and US…

Since I started using an iPad, one thing has been bugging me – the calendar. More specifically, what is shown as the first day of the week when you have the calendar in week or month view. Being brought up in the UK, for some reason I was always told that Sunday was the first [...]

Dear O2… Why should I stay?

Dear O2, I have been a loyal iPhone 3G customer of yours since August 2008. I paid for the handset and dutifully paid £35 a month to you for an 18 month contract, and indeed I’m still paying. For my £35 I was given an allowance of 600 minutes, 500 text messages and unlimited mobile [...]

Getting ADSL to your Airport Extreme

Apple is famed for it’s “it just works” technology, and for the most part that’s true. However, when it comes to the Apple Airport Extreme Base Station, it’s lack of a built-in DSL modem means you have a little figuring out to do if you want to use the Airport Extreme as part of an [...]