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Category Archive: Life

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

Time and tide wait for no Mac

What a mess the UK has made of tidal prediction: two different agencies, each charging us for information that we paid for in our taxes.

July 16, 2015 General, Life, Macs, Technology

Apple making 92% of phone profits? Monopoly or misleading?

WSJ headline: “Apple’s Share of Smartphone Industry’s Profits Soars to 92%”. Is it a “profit monopoly”?

July 14, 2015 General, Life, Macs, Technology

Purposeful portables

For a few years, I managed to get along without wasting any more money on PDAs and their ilk. Then came the Zaurus, and Dana. But none compared with the Z88.

July 10, 2015 General, Life, Macs, Technology

Licensed to mow: paying to use CODECs

The commercial mower of lawns does not pay a royalty for each lawn that they mow. So why should a user of H.264 video encoding be expected to pay royalties?

July 9, 2015 General, Life, Macs, Technology

High quality hash

I needed a one-way method of generating a unique key for each subject name that would not permit the reverse process, of working out the name for a given key: something known as a ‘one-way hash key’.

July 8, 2015 General, Life, Macs, Technology

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