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Category Archive: General

Grandsons get complicated: how giving an iPad turned tricky

I knew that creating my grandson an Apple ID for his new iPad Mini would be interesting.

August 1, 2015 General, Life, Macs, Technology

Serious maths for silly prices

How can you buy a legal copy of £1600 software for only £85?

July 31, 2015 General, Life, Macs, Technology

Getting copyright right

Two current cases show how messy copyright can become: it is not a Happy Birthday for Harry Potter.

July 31, 2015 General, Language, Life, Macs, Painting, Technology

Odd side effects of drugs

It had never occurred to me that my solution to discovering how much paint is delivered by watercolour brushes was also an essential tool for your local dope pedlar.

July 23, 2015 General, Life, Macs, Painting, Technology

Comic tech

Sophisticated colour artwork alone does not make a comic great, just as the many millions spent on recent movies cannot make them as great as Dreyer’s masterpieces.

July 22, 2015 General, Macs, Painting, Technology

Q&A: Relocating to the country

How can we set our Macs up for remote control and VOIP for separate rural locations, in a virtual office?

July 21, 2015 General, Life, Macs, Technology

Copyright, common sense, and copying

The most important question is what “harm” the ‘music industry’ in the UK suffers by personal copying of audio CDs etc.

July 20, 2015 General, Life, Macs, Technology

Message from MacUser’s grave

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It was almost six months to the day since MacUser’s untimely death that my incoming email contained a message from the deceased publication.

July 18, 2015 General, Life, Macs

Who was first: 1 robust timestamping of documents

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Proving the date of origin of anything electronic – for patent or copyright purposes, perhaps – has been well nigh impossible. But that has now changed.

July 18, 2015 General, Language, Life, Macs, Painting, Technology

Why I will dance on Flash’s grave

Announcing Flash’s deathdate is but the first in a tough and painful road to restoring confidence in Adobe and its products.

July 16, 2015 General, Life, Macs, Technology

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