Walt Mossberg Misses the Point?

Walt Mossberg, the respected Wall Street Journal personal technology columnist, has a “review” of Apple’s latest version of iWork over on All Things Digital.
I’m obviously biased, but I feel he has missed the point in comparing iWork 08 with Microsoft Office for the Mac. iWork is quite clearly targeted at a different audience to [...]

Release the Sound of Your iPod

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 Heart iSync

I’ve just synced my 6680 with my Mac using iSync and I ‘ve gotta say how much I like iSync. Wanna know why I like iSync so much? It just works… each and every time I use it.
I recognise this may be part due to the 6680 also as I did have issues with the [...]

Coolness in Powerpoint…

Whatever next!?
Working from home the other day I had a Powerpoint presentation to write so decided to do so on my Mac Mini rather than my nasty Windows Stinkpad.
It reminded me how much better MS Office is on the Mac than on Windows and how much easier working on OS X is; I’m amazed how [...]