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The spare periods between Christmas meals and the impending New Year offer some time for re-organisation and filing. Once such are is the mammoth task of music, pictures and videos. I have thousands – GigaBytes of the stuff. Organising this takes time and can be hugely frustrating if it goes pear-shaped. The Apple iLife suite […]
December 28, 2012
Skeuomorph: an object or feature which imitates the design of a similar artefact in another material. There have been far too many lines written about this subject, poo-pooing the idea that skeuomorphic design elements were introduced into iOS and OS X. But I think that the focus should not be the choice – but the lack of choice. Every user is different, […]
October 10, 2012
Seems a weird title to have, but my focus here is the current state of web standards and the fact that no matter how much we try and push the boundaries of HTML and CSS – much of the ‘flashy’ stuff has to remain forsaken in the ‘real’ world. The real world I speak of […]
September 23, 2012
UPDATE: I spent 15 mins speaking to Apple UK’s technical support and have this update for anyone interested -see end of article In the past I have been able to listen to gripes over the closed-system that Apple uses in maintaining the quality of it’s products and services – like water off a ducks back. […]
August 17, 2012
Back in 2007-8 I was involved in online web accessibility a lot – building websites with good web standards, semantic code and accessible features as part of some contracted work and my own business work. At that time I would probably say that I had an edge over many web developers (and may still have […]
July 27, 2012
So OS X Mountain Lion is now out there. Well whoopie. I can’t say that I am all that fussed right now about it. I have reminders and notification on my iPad and iPhone. All I need now is to have them go bing, bing and bing again on my desktop for good measure! Almost […]
July 14, 2012
Back in the late 1990’s I started a blog of sorts as a Mac user / guru under the title ‘TheBigO’. Critiquing Apple products and posting solutions to problems – as we are talking about a time when Apple was literally on it’s death bed and almost ready to bow out, before Steve Jobs stepped […]
June 15, 2012
For someone who has been in the game for a long time now, from the days of 56k modems ‘shhrrkk shk shk shrrrrk’, gifs and tables to broadband, .pngs and divs to CSS3 and HTML5 – sometimes some things can take a little longer to acquire than I would like. I spend much of my […]
December 15, 2011
Well I am on a train to Leeds and have just got the Apple wireless keyboard in the hope that I will be able to type a bit faster than when I use the on screen keyboard. At the moment this is proving a success albeit I occasionally drop a few letters as the trains […]
October 26, 2011
Recently, I was working on a client’s website and intranet, and it occurred to me that half of the work I was doing would not exist if IE7 and IE8 supported some of the basic CSS3 values that many modern browsers do. And before IE9 is raised, it’s still in beta and also requires the […]
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