Surface
An alternate universe – Marco Arment: The Surface is partially for Microsoft’s world of denial: the world in which this store contains no elephants and Microsoft invented the silver store with the...
View ArticleGoogle authenticator and Gmail iOS app rubbish
I have two step authentication turned on my Google account. If you don’t know what that is, whenever you login to the gmail web interface it is set up to send me a code via SMS which I then also have...
View ArticleKeyboards and “tablets”, and writing
It seems to me that people who love the Microsoft Surface RT because of its keyboard (for example, Jeff Atwood) just needed to buy a Zagg keyboard for iPad.[1] Jeff Atwood does indeed make a good point...
View ArticlePostbox 3 anachronisms redux
I’ve been using Sparrow as my email client on my Mac for the past year. I liked it a lot, but the whole Sparrow team had been bought up by Google for them to work on Gmail some months ago, which is a...
View ArticlePostbox anachronisms overload
Too much anachronism. Back to Apple Mail.app. I wish Sparrow wasn’t bought by Google. ;-(
View ArticleA more detailed Postbox critique
OK So I’m back on Mail.app but still looking for a Postbox alternative. What was the straw that broke the camel’s back? I realised it was quite simple. I am a Gmail Filter and Label power user. I’ve...
View ArticleInstagram versus Flickr
So most people who read the news should be aware of the new Instagram terms of service by now (if not, read the linked boingboing article). Its resulted in quite a bit of outrage on twitter and other...
View ArticleMy advice to GPS manufacturers
This is not about Apple maps. It is about the hardware devices you use in cars (yes I know you can use your iPhone or Android device with turn-by-turn but in general their software has all these...
View ArticleSoftware review: TeXnicle LaTeX editor
TeXnicle is a relatively new free Mac OS X TeX editor. I just had a go at it (for about an hour) to wheedle out some of its basic features and possible flaws. It is of course (i.e. conforms to current...
View ArticleMicrosoft’s zombie apocalypse
Go to this URL, and click on the “click here to see how the iPad has changed the world in just three years” link that’s at the bottom of the text (sorry these guys don’t want to let me link directly to...
View ArticleXcode and its inability to handle simple things like renaming a directory
Why is it so damned hard to rename a directory in Xcode? When you open up Xcode and create a new Project, it creates a virtual directory – a “Group” into which your application source files go. If you...
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Due to unprecedented attempts to spam the comments (all defeated), comments are now disabled on this blog.
View ArticleMicrosoft in 2023
I agree entirely with this post by Charlie Stross concerning MS Word. I really wish people writing in the Humanities would not insist on using the bloody thing. The problem is in businesses – they love...
View ArticleOSX 10.9 ‘Mavericks’ and ‘Spaces’
One of the more interesting changes in Mavericks is the way it now handles multiple screens and what was called “Spaces” (is it still even called that?)(yes, yes it is). Previously if I had a second...
View ArticleThe Mail.App in OSX 10.9 is buggy and awful
The Apple Mail.app in Mavericks is a terrible step backwards. Smart mailboxes behave flakily – I’ve got one that’s called “All unread” (it’s rule is simply “message is unread”) and it said that there...
View ArticleMore about Mail in Mavericks
Well, that’s been nothing but a huge disappointment. It’s confirmed that Mail.app and Gmail in Mavericks don’t get along. Mail behaves absolutely abominably with the non-standard IMAP of Gmail. I’ve...
View ArticleHow to explain backend changes that support undelivered features
My current work environment is in a cost-pressured large national transport enterprise with a familiar internationally-recognised brand name. We have to build a lot of systems that model many...
View ArticleScalability of self-service employee review enterprise integration
generic employee review [employee name] is excellent at scalable self service in adapting customer experience deliverables. He/she anticipates all competitive advantage adaptations in changing market...
View ArticleCode
Some code I wrote – a plugin that’s useful to you if you write Pandoc with Sublime Text. It’s on github but you really want to install it via Sublime Text’s Package Control plugin.
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