Well, well. Lots of exciting stuff announced at this year's WWDC 2008 Stevenote.
The new iPhone. Hmmm... a much cheaper price, 3G and GPS makes it a slightly more compelling purchase than the old iPhone. We'll have to wait and see how much the contract will cost from O2.
Snow Leopard. Interesting. One of the goals of Snow Leopard is to reduce the footprint of OS X - I guess everything shrinks in the cold, right...?
MobileMe. An upgrade to .Mac? Your very own mail server! Access mail with your Mac, and iPhone or iPod touch.
Tuesday, 10 June 2008
Wednesday, 7 May 2008
6-day recording with Sky+
I was watching a 2 hour programme at the weekend, then all of a sudden my Sky+ box thought I was 6 days into it!
Sunday, 20 April 2008
Separated at birth?
What do you think?
Benny from the Vatican...
And Genial Harry Grout, of HM Slade Prison...
?
Monday, 17 March 2008
Things not to do in an airport departure lounge or tube train
1. Play this on your laptop - http://boortz.com/mp3/archive/countdown.swf
Sunday, 16 March 2008
Why you should use Python
From http://docs.python.org/tut/node3.html:
"By the way, the language is named after the BBC show ``Monty Python's Flying Circus'' and has nothing to do with nasty reptiles. Making references to Monty Python skits in documentation is not only allowed, it is encouraged!"
Why? Because she's a fucking princess, that's why!
Tuesday, 11 March 2008
Spotlight is CPU hog in Leopard
There was a time on Tiger when the Spotlight indexer processes (mdimport) would run nicely in the background and relinquish CPU cycles to anything else; you would hardly know they were there.
On Leopard now, Spotlight appears to have been completely re-written and certainly does produce search results a lot faster than Tiger, but it does so at the expense of hogging your CPU(s) in an effort to get the indexing done (which are mdworker processes now). mds is a bit of hog too.
It took about 20 minutes to install the Office update, and it started a couple of minutes just before the Time Machine backup kicked off. Coupled with the Spotlight indexing going on in the background as well (which didn't totally calm down until about half an hour after the install finished), made for a slightly unresponsive machine for a while!
So here's a tip - don't install the Office 2008 update (12.0.1) during a Time Machine backup! Responsiveness is reduced a tad.
I filed a bug report with Apple.
Saturday, 8 March 2008
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