Missives From the Reality-Based World
If you’re like me — and I know you are — you sucked up a copy of OSX Lion as soon as it was on the App Store, and were immediately infuriated by the checkbox labelled “Reopen windows when logging back in”. Why did you find it infuriating, as I do? Because you have to uncheck it every. bloody. […]
Okay, I’m afraid you’re going to have to tolerate a little gloating. I’m working on our annual report again — these things always end up being such massive projects for just a few pages of document — and this year I’m doing it as a journal or scrapbook. I’ve got these borders that look like pasted-in pages; I’ve […]
With National Novel Writing Month approaching in November, it’s hardly surprising that interest has picked up in writing apps for iPad. Within this group there’s a subset of demand for “distraction-free” writing programs.* I’m not entirely sure where this trend toward minimalism is coming from, though Pages may have a lot to do with it; it’s a lovely […]
…don’t bother jailbreaking it. No value added, and quite a lot of the JB apps just flat don’t work on it. It’s far too difficult to change the root password, too. I ended up saying to hell with it and restoring. Which was also an exercise in oy gevalt. Sure, everything gets backed up — except whatever […]
For reasons a little too abstruse to go into here, I recently ended up in possession of a 16 GB wifi iPad. It was hardly planned, and I’ve only had it since Wednesday, but I thought I’d share my take on it. For starters, yes, it’s basically a big iPhone or iTouch. That’s been the biggest derisive comment levied against the iPad, […]
Because that’s currently my network access point. Spirit (re-)jailbroke 3.1.3, and Cydia and Rock remembered all the JB apps I’d installed — even the for-pay ones — which is spectacularly nice, thank you very much; and benm.at provided a working AT&T tethering hack. (Which I don’t think you need to JB for, but I did anyway, cause that’s […]
I know. I know. Those of you who are in my gmail contacts have been spammed recently by a series of annoying messages. I’m not sure exactly where the weak link is. Because it’s just people whom I’ve contacted directly from my gmail account via their web interface, it could be that someone managed to crack my […]
I have an Xbox 360, which I occasionally use to play games in much the same way that I use my iPhone to occasionally make phone calls. Most of the rest of the time, I’m using the devices for something else. In the case of the iPhone, it’s a portable entertainment center and a remarkably powerful micro-computer; in the […]
Just checking to see if this works from iPhone. Move along. Nothing to see here.
Lots of complaints about how iPad doesn’t multitask any more than iPhone 3GS. Okay, so, well. My machine is jailbroken, and has a multitasker in it. It’s about 5% more convenient than it used to be. If I uninistalled the multitasker, frankly, I’d barely notice. I use Orbit almost every time I trigger my phone. Multitasker? Hardly ever. What […]
A developer known as “Briask” created a Joomla! module called ImageSlideShow, which works nicely, except that it insists on inserting an alpha fade effect between images, even if you’ve set the transition delay to 0. This means that if (for instance) you’re using one of those Cisco flat panel-Web enabled displays, the image transitions can really start […]
I have both — FFox 3.5.6 and OSX.6.2 — and just now, when I tried to open a tab in FFox, my system logged me out and forced a re-login. Never, ever happened before, with any browser, on any OSX release. Is this part of the rumor I’ve heard that FFox 3.5.6 is more or less lethally unstable? […]
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