Okay, so the Windows 7 Beta is out and it’s good. Great in fact! So I figured that I would migrate all of my systems to use Windows 7; and document the process while I’m at it! So in the next couple days I’ll be publishing a quick guide and outlining my thoughts on installing [...]
18
Dec
Macbook Air – Hash Key
Okay, this is a bit ‘niche’-ey. I have a US Macbook air with UK Keyboard layout and have spent a few months passively looking for the ‘hash’ key, whilst sort of admitting to myself that I’d probably bought a £1200 machine with no DVD drive, no changeable battery and NO HASH KEY. But.. about that [...]
18
Nov
Windows 7 6801 x64 + iTunes + iPhone
Chris123NT has posted a wonderful guide that proves exactly what I thought would be the case but didn’t get round to trying for lack of an x64 install of Vista on any machine, oh, and time! In order to install iTunes and the iPhone on x64 Windows 7 you need merely get source the Apple [...]
14
Oct
Can a blog be a professional internal tool?
I don’t often talk about my job on here, mainly because it’s not often relevant. But recently I’ve been in a lot of meetings / discussions about creating a system to keep the executives up to date on the progress of various projects. It was an interesting meeting in which the system changed from a [...]
11
Sep
Now is the time to buy – hardware prices on the rise
This comes at a time that the GBP is losing ground against the USD at a rate not seen for quite a while and is causing manufacturing distributors to see rises in cost against selling prices of up to 10%. It’s not certain how large price rises will be, but HPs confirmed and many other [...]
09
Sep
The calm after the storm – Post ‘Jobs-note’
So, Steve’s taken the stage and done his bit. Now it’s up to us to spend the next 3-5 days marveling at the design brilliance of Apple and how they’ve changed our lives before settling back down in to the (not unimpressive) reality that they’ve just re-engineered an existing solution to be intuitive and look [...]
09
Sep
Preview Site Rendering Tool
While trying to see if a peculiarity in the rendering of this site was due to the IE6 install on a machine in my work (eurgh… companies) I stumbled accross a service that will produce a screenshot of your page rendered an any and all browsers available. And what’s best.. it’s free! Browsershots will render [...]
