One thing I’m finding really annoying is the existence of sites with no RSS feeds. On personal and/or largely static sites, that’s forgiveable, but on sites where the bulk of information is dynamic or frequently updated? Especially if the site is blog-esque? It’s seriously irritating. Ignoring RSS feeds is ridiculously antiquated and is going to [...]

In furtherance of my mission to acquire every shiny white piece of computer hardware ever, I bought an iMac a month or so ago, and I love it. I made the decision to upgrade when I realised that I was using my 12” PowerBook for everything, despite having a powerful PC sitting on my desk. [...]

LiveJournal, one of the web’s biggest blogging/journalling hubs, has just – finally – introduced tagging. This is something for which many LiveJournal users have been waiting for a long time, myself among them.

Now, however, there’s something of a dilemma. Using LiveJournal tags provides one with the fundamental functionality of tagging, and it will provide [...]

In the words of the internet’s intellectual elite: I WIN AT LIFE OMG.

In other words, I managed to get the Airport Express base station set up. Admittedly, it did require a bit of bodging, which I’ll detail below. But now it’s happily extending the range of my wireless network (yes, it’s encrypted; yes, it’s private [...]

On the way home from Uni I dropped into the Apple store in the city – NextByte – for a bit of a browse. My resolve is weakening, but I managed to resist the lure of the iMacs – but only by distracting myself with an Airport Express that was just begging for someone to [...]

Both computers: working.
Phone line & ADSL: fixed.
TV: not responding to remote. (Which means no DVDs, since you can’t put it on A/V input via the TV’s controls.)

Two steps forward, one step back.

Hitachi and Toshiba have both just broken the data storage density record for hard drives. Wikinews reports that Hitachi just hit 230 Gb per square inch; the previous record was ~130 Gb/in^2. The technology uses perpendicular recording, as opposed to the longitudinal recording in current drives.

Toshiba have been racing Hitachi to the finish; they manufacture [...]

Apple has announced the release date for Tiger, aka OS X 10.4. April 29th – sixteen meagre days away. Interestingly, though, none of the non-American Apple websites have anything about the release date in their /macosx sections, which is going to make a lot of people very sad if it’s an indicator of rollout delays.

Edit: [...]

We’ve just handed in our major group assignment for GSN408 – Fundamentals of Marketing Management. We chose Apple as our target for the assignment, which was a marketing ‘audit’, and specifically their marketing of the iPod.

It’s been really fascinating stuff. I’ll put the paper up here later, once it’s been marked and returned, but here’s [...]

We’ve just been told that we can’t use laptops for our end-of-term Marketing exam, even though it’s an open-book exam. And even though we were told we were required to have access to a laptop for the course.

Sigh. My typing is about three times faster than my handwriting, and a lot more legible. Not to [...]

My new iSight just arrived. (For those of you not up on all the Apple gizmos, the iSight is basically a premium-quality webcam/mic, intended for videoconferencing rather than HTTP webcam display.) This thing is swish. The link shows you the device in its assembled state; it comes in a slick little package like the iPod, [...]

Appletalk.com.au is reporting that iTMS.au – that’s the Australian iteration of the iTunes Music Store – is in the “on again” phase of its rumoured status. This is the third go-round of rumours we’ve had; each time it’s looked like happening, the launch has been scotched by licensing issues. (Australia’s copyright and licensing laws are [...]

The last vestiges of resistance towards Switching have evaporated like morning dew.

First I upgrade my Powerbook, and discover that about 75% of the discomfort of my old Powerbook was because it was old and slow. The new machine is lovely.
Then my second PC packs it in – before I’ve even got the first one fixed.
Then [...]

Tagging is all the rage. Flickr started it, really, with their photo tags, and various other data providers have taken the idea and run with it. For those of you who haven’t come across tagging, Flickr’s the best example of how it works: when you upload a photo, you include a number of keywords that [...]

Zarniwoop arrived today. He is shiny, silver and new. His keys are soft and elegant; his button is clicky and clean. I am a very happy owner of a brand new 12.1” PowerBook G4.

Everything runs so fast! And I’ve got the wireless network up and running, so both Powerbooks are happily chirping away at the [...]

Sitting in the middle of my Business Communications lecture, I notice that the time counter on my iPod (which was supposed to be busy recording the lecture) had stopped ticking over.

The wheel didn’t respond.

When I plugged it into the PowerBook, nothing happened.

Commence panic! This thing had all today’s recorded lectures on it, and I’ve come [...]

I want my PowerBook! Zarniwoop, be mine!

I am not a patient person at the best of times, and this isn’t the best of times. GIMME!

On the up side, I’ve mostly figured out what I’m going to call my PCs if I do implement the new naming conventions.

Computer, that is.

On Monday night I tried out Apple’s online store – well, I buy everything else online, why not computers too? – and ordered my new laptop. It’s an upgrade for my current Powerbook, which is somewhat behind the tech curve, and I’ll sell it on eBay once my new one is arrived and [...]

Because he bought me a manual phone charger.

I kid you not; someone actually makes these. It comes in a snazzy case with the unit, six plug adaptors (one for each brand it supports) and a plug extension. You plug it into your phone and wind the handle [...]

My supply of functional computers is down to two, and one of those sucks.

Not only is my primary PC throwing major tantrums on a regular basis – in a way that indicates faulty hardware, because reinstalling Windows really isn’t helping the issue – but now my laptop has gone belly-up. Hopefully it can be fixed [...]