I followed Steve Jobs’ Keynote from MacWorld today on my iPhone via MacRumors excellent page and have just watched the Keynote video from the Apple site and whilst it wasn’t an iPhone year but it was still a good year.
However, before we get into what was announced I just have to ask - can you [...]

Business trips are like buses… you don’t go on any for ages and then two turn up together!
In about 12 hours I leave Heathrow for almost a week in sunny Phoenix. There has been all sort of malarkey with booking flights and hotels as Phoenix seems to be full this week! It’s worked out well [...]

Jonathan Ive, Apple’s design overlord, has been awarded a CBE in the New Years Honours list.
It’s fantastic to see the importance of design being recognised.
Jonathan Ive is responsible (with a little input from Steve Jobs I’m sure) for the iMac, Cube, iBook, Powerbook, Mini and of course the iPod range.
Apple are renown for their industrial [...]

Because of the bloody French, European iPods have a very low and very annoying volume limit.
Back off Brussels! I’m a grown up and can operate a volume control!
Sorry… thankfully it’s possible to hack the firmware on the iPod and remove this Nanny State nastiness. To do so is pretty tricky but some very clever [...]

I was beginning to wonder if I was just unlucky or fussy or both as almost everything I buy these days seems to be faulty when I get it home or goes wrong quickly; I’m pleased to see that I am not alone.
I mentioned this to a friend after his second Apple Powerbook power supply [...]

I’ve now imported all the entries from my old Blogger blog that I think are worth republishing and they make for interesting reading.
My blog is a year old on May 26th and it’s amazing to see how much has changed for me in that period.
* I have, as predicted, gone back to a PDA
* I [...]