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Category Archive: Technology

Will I get wet? Weather forecasting on OS X and iOS

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Which weather forecasting app should you trust? Or are you looking for some digital seaweed?

May 3, 2015 General, Life, Macs, Technology

Still no Year of the Geek

Has Apple forgotten the needs of the high-end creatives? This year, let’s cultivate the geek in us.

May 3, 2015 General, Macs, Technology

.why .the .extensions? Quirks in the naming of files and folders

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Macs used to be the only computers that did not need filename extensions; now they have conformed, but iOS lacks them. Why?

May 2, 2015 Macs, Technology

Q&A: How big for backups?

I want an external drive to support Time Machine backups of my iMac, which currently has 805 GB free space on its 1 TB internal drive. How big should this backup disk be?

May 2, 2015 Macs, Technology

Two centuries, two authors, two platforms

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Celebrating the bicentenaries of Charles Dickens and Henry Mayhew with a couple of concordance tools.

May 2, 2015 General, Language, Macs, Technology

Scammed and scarred: a cautionary tale

Today I had an anguished phone call from a dear friend who, just a few days ago, succumbed to a phishing attack. He was electronically mugged, and no one cares.

May 1, 2015 General, Life, Macs, Technology

Mirror, mirror, on the web, who was the most frustrated of them all?

This morning I nearly took a selfie and posted it to How-Old.net to see if it would cope with ages over 100. And I put it all down to Adobe.

May 1, 2015 General, Life, Macs, Technology

Q&A: Hanging Contacts

Contacts launches but hangs when I try to use it.

May 1, 2015 Macs, Technology

Wishes almost granted

What happens when you ask for electronic publishing tools? You end up with products which bind you into constraints, charge royalties, or have to be leased.

May 1, 2015 General, Macs, Technology

Keychain Cops: getting the most out of your keychain

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Everywhere that you go you need user names, passwords, and other means of proving your identity. In OS X and iOS these are normally stored in a keychain.

April 30, 2015 Macs, Technology

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