Apple's new 13" MacBook bought from the Irish Apple Store costs an extra €246 over the straight exchange rate conversion. Mr. Jobs, you do realise we've just had a pretty brutal budget here and people won't be able to afford your shiny toys any more?

The smell has been variously described as "new car smell", "musty", "rotting carpet" and even cannabis.
"My entire room smells bad and I have had to resort to a few air fresheners just to be able to work on it," one report read. (link; my emphasis)
"Otherwise my mom'd, like, totally freak. She's such a square, but I know she was a flower child in ( Read more... )

I've been eyeing up Brenthaven's Expandable Trek backpack as something that I could use both for hauling my shiny toy around and also something I could use for commuting to the office (since the office laptop is roughly the same dimensions as the shiny toy). Brenthaven and Froogle both give the list price of this particular piece of luggage as $99. ( Read more... )

I've finally given in and run up Firefox on the Mac.

Why?

Because I can no longer access either my online banking or my motor tax renewal forms with Safari. Who'd have thought I'd be driven to open-source technology by a bank and local government?

I did some digging around and found the problem. Firstly, some weeks ago I tweaked the configuration of my webserver such that the WPAD URL - viz. http://wpad/wpad.dat - no longer worked. This is the URL Windows clients use when you tell them to automatically detect proxy settings, and by ( Read more... )

Right now iTunes seems to have decided that I've got no network connectivity, despite the fact that everything else seems happy with my network. It simply says "iTunes could not [do requested network thing]. An unknown error occurred (-4). Make sure your network connection is active and try again." And, well, my network connection is active. I mean ( Read more... )

Today I picked up a couple of CDs in the second-hand store to backfill some music I'd borrowed off others and liked sufficiently to merit a purchase. For both CDs, iTunes informed me that importing them would clash with some existing music; would I care to replace the clashing titles? Indeed I would, this being sort of the point of the exercise ( Read more... )

If you plug in your iPod while the screen is locked, upon unlocking the screen you can see the dialog box that tells you your iPod is corrupted. Ejecting and replugging cures the alleged corruptedness.

A few months back, I went to a doctor I hadn't been to before. In his surgery, I noticed that he had a Macintosh Cube, something I'd never actually seen in real life in the brief period they were available. And so I commented on it, and he remarked that he was actually thinking of replacing it with an iMac, but he was quite aware of the (admittedly ( Read more... )

Actually, I'm not sure this is irony, but that's a whole other discussion. Anyway, as noted to wisn just now: I spent an amount of time fiddling with calendars on my Linux laptop, including hacking up a bit of CGI that would show the current day in the center of a page with the current week, current month, etc. in progressively smaller boxes around it ( Read more... )