Category Archives: Apple

Can Apple see a time when they no longer produce the Mac?

Posted on June 2, 2010 by Ben Lavery

Ars Technica published this article the other day which says how Apple are not awarding Mac applications the Apple Design Award this year and are instead focussing on the iPhone and the iPad.

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Remote Volume, the Geeky Way

Posted on June 1, 2010 by Ben Lavery

Today I was sitting in the chair watching a film playing on my Mac Pro.  After much getting up and sitting back down to turn the light off, tilt the screen, etc. I found that the sound was too quiet, … Continue reading →

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My Mac knows about the iPad

Posted on April 7, 2010 by Ben Lavery

I was just browsing through the /System/Library/CoreServices/CoreTypes.bundle/Contents/Resources folder on my MacBook, just to see what was there, and I suddenly spied the iPad icon:

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Dropbox

Posted on April 2, 2010 by Ben Lavery

Ever wanted to store stuff online but couldn’t afford web hosting?  If so, Dropbox is your answer! Dropbox offers both free and paid for storage online, the free storage has a limit of 2GB, whereas paid sotrage has a limits … Continue reading →

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Whence and Whenceman

Posted on March 31, 2010 by Ben Lavery

On the UNIX command line, the `which` command is great, it tells you where a command is in the system.  However, if your system has two versions of the `ls` command, it will only tell you which `ls` command you … Continue reading →

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Gruml

Posted on March 30, 2010 by Ben Lavery

I get mildly annoyed when using applications that are hosted on the web.  For example, I’ll use web mail if I have to, but I’d much rather use Apple Mail or Thunderbird… Anyway, I’ve been using Google Reader for the … Continue reading →

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Apple iPad

Posted on January 31, 2010 by Ben Lavery

So, I’m a little late to the blogsphere on this one, but then when am I not? I’ve read some pretty damning things about the iPad, it doesn’t have a SD card reader, it doesn’t have a camera, it has … Continue reading →

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My new work area

Posted on November 13, 2009 by Ben Lavery

Well it’s been a while since I last posted here.  Though it’d be right that I come back with tales of new desks, screens and computers! So what’s new?  I’ve left Camberley, worked for the MoD over the summer and … Continue reading →

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Snow Leopard ships!

Posted on August 27, 2009 by Ben Lavery

I pre-ordered my copy on Monday at work, and this morning was greeted by this:

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Apple updates Java!

Posted on June 15, 2009 by Ben Lavery

Well, we’ve been waiting, what, about two years for this now.  Today, Apple released Java 6 as part of it’s Java for Mac OS X 10.5 Update 4. The support docs (found here) say that in this 158MB update we … Continue reading →

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