Posted December 30th, 2007 by Dom
Ok, well I failed and didn’t do this over Christmas. Had too much to do giving advice to my parents about their own PC’s to worry about mine. But here it is, the fourth and final part of my Great Mac Apps segment.
GimmeSomeTune - This is the most useful iTunes plugin I use (and the [...]
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Posted December 20th, 2007 by Dom
It just occured to me that I never did part 4 of my Great Mac Apps list (see part 1, 2, and 3). So my objective for this weekend is to do just that.
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Posted December 16th, 2007 by Dom
Its th 16th of December and I’ve had my iPhone for a month. So what are my thoughts so far?
Well overall I’m really pleased. I can easily say the main features I’ve used are Mail and Safari . Since Gmail opened up IMAP, I’ve got my gmail accounts set up in Mail.app so I get [...]
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Posted December 14th, 2007 by Dom
As I posted before, I took my A+ 220-601 exam recently and as part of the study, I got a few books that came with CD-ROM’s. They all contained test engine software which I was looking forward to using, but of course, cos of the narrow minded people, it was Windows only. Since I don’t [...]
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Posted November 16th, 2007 by Dom
So I’ve been using my iPhone for about a week now. Its lovely. But this is about the cost.I was watching a video on YouTube about the iPhone making a deal about the overall cost. So I wanted to address the issues raised.
Contract Length - O2 require an 18 month contract. OH MY GOD! 18 [...]
Tags: cost, iphone, ipod touch, n800, n95, o2, orange
Posted November 11th, 2007 by Dom
I have a few backup systems in force after a hard drive crash on my last Powerbook. Firstly I backup the main stuff using Mozy.com’s online backup system. I also backup to CD every few months for a local copy. And lastly, I backup to my 80GB iPod which I have plugged in very often [...]
Posted November 11th, 2007 by Dom
Ok. Its sunday lunchtime. I’m currently doing a custom install of MYSQL and its time to start my review.I’ve been using my iPhone on and off for about 2 days now. So lets go through things.
Phone
I’ve only had some brief use of the actual phone call aspect, but from that I can say that its [...]
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Posted November 9th, 2007 by Dom
So I am home, I’ve got my iPhone and its all working.Setup was simple. Plug in, go through the iTunes registration, select price plan, give your iTunes Account ID, and give any number transfer details. Once that was done, you wait for activation, and for me this took less than a minute.Once thats done, you [...]
Posted November 9th, 2007 by Dom
I arrived at 10.15, had a drink from Starbucks and went to wait. It wasn’t until about 12pm that the first people started the queue, and then I made my move. I’m now sitting here, in 4th place on a cold hard floor waiting for my iPhone.There’s 7 people so far (12.44pm) and its bound [...]
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Posted October 16th, 2007 by Dom
So I’ve booked off the 9th November to go get my iPhone. Rumour has it that it will be available at 6pm, like the US release. And what I’m wondering is what to do during the day. I’ll have my laptop there (and power cable, very important) and I was wondering about live blogging my [...]
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