So with the organised crime connection to the horse meat scandal why haven’t they told us the results of the tests for human DNA in those burgers and lasagne?
February 13, 2013
December 11, 2012
Late 2012 iMac
Got my new iMac yesterday evening and set about transferring my data from Time Machine and such.
Applecare and Thunderbolt to Firewire 800 adapter arrived separately.
Shipping box.
Foam pads top and bottom.
Simply unfolds and lifts out.
And then some waiting.
November 30, 2012
New iMac
Ordered new build-to-order iMac this morning. Delivery supposed to be 18th-21st December.
21.5 inch screen
NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M with 512MB
3.1GHz Quad-core Intel Core i7, Turbo Boost up to 3.9GHz
16GB 1600MHz DDR3 SDRAM – 2x8GB
1TB Fusion Drive (combines 128GB of super fast flash storage with a traditional hard drive. )
Magic Trackpad, Keyboard, Thunderbolt <-> Firewire adaptor, Applecare.
1TB Fusion Drive (combines 128GB of super fast flash storage with a traditional hard drive. )
Magic Trackpad, Keyboard, Thunderbolt <-> Firewire adaptor, Applecare.
So that should be handy.
September 30, 2012
Freelancing
I made $481.27 freelancing online this month. So that was interesting. I made more money from that than from my shareware release. I think most people who self-publish software (shareware, trial ware, App Store, MAS) are in the long tail. I have some ideas for software that can be written fairly quickly that might also actually sell. To get it on the MAS still requires me to pay another freelancer $300 or so to do a retina resolution icon set. So icon designers have a guaranteed income from app programmers.
August 1, 2012
Microsoft Windows dominance fades as Apple beats HP, Canalys claims
Microsoft Windows dominance fades as Apple beats HP, Canalys claims.
It’s been a long time coming but it was inevitable.
It certainly makes sense to include tablets (iPads) in the totals for personal computers since that is exactly the role people are using them in. What makes less sense is not including those other devices running the same operating systems (iOS and Android) with smaller screens – smartphones and iPod touches.
July 26, 2012
The Dark Knight Rises
I thought it was the best of the trilogy, albeit a bit too long for comfort in the cinema. They really need to bring back intermissions on these long films. It had a reasonably interesting female role for Anne Hathaway, a fair number of twists and turns that I didn’t see coming, and a bit of have your cake and eat it that it mostly got away with.
July 12, 2012
June 8, 2012
New Drive
A Seagate 1TB external drive I was using for Time Machine clattered and clanked and died just outside its two-year warranty the other week. Rather than directly replace it I thought I’d get a bigger drive, move everything from my reliable Buffalo 1TB external drive to the new drive and repurpose the Buffalo drive as a Time Machine Drive.
I believe these are discontinued and the remaining stock is on sale while available.
Special Mac edition in aluminium case pre-formatted in hfs+ ready to use.
Power supply and cables.
It looks nice, runs cool and is very quiet.
And its warranty runs until 6/6/2015.
Another Dead HomePlug
Just stopped working. Opened it up for a look. Ordered replacement 85Mbps unit. The 1000Mbps now cost the same so next time I might replace all four with newer ones.
