It’s becoming an instinctive reaction these days; something new and shiny from Apple arrives, so grab the digital camera and upload to Flickr. The arrival of my pre-ordered copy of Mac OS X Leopard is no exception.
The full set of unboxing madness is on my Flickr photostream: http://www.flickr.com/photos/vicchi/sets/72157602734496350/
Friday October 26th was Mac OS X Leopard release day and I’d had a pre-order with Apple since the date was announced earlier in the month. Time to say good-bye to Tiger …
… and one and a half hours later, hello to Leopard.
My iBook G4’s never looked so good. More photos on my Flickr photostream at http://www.flickr.com/photos/vicchi/sets/72157602727528663/
I freely admit that this is a sweeping generalisation but customer service in the US is generally quite good whereas customer service in the UK is really quite crap; it doesn’t seem to give any form of service to the customer - which we seem to accept in the UK. Even for US companies which open operations in the UK the whole customer service ethic seems to be somewhat less that that offered by their US parent.So I was sitting at my dining room table last weekend with my, work issued, MacBook Pro surfing the CBeebies site for In The Night Garden. This is for the benefit of my two year old son I hasten to add. He’s particularly fond of this site as it’s able to access the built-in iSight web cam that MacBooks and MacBook Pros have so he can see himself in the game for one of his favourite TV shows.I wasn’t really concentrating on what was going on and was mildly annoyed when a small piece of plastic zipped across the table missing my nose by about half an inch. I started concentrating surprisingly fast when I heard my junior surfer issuing those key words which means something’s gone wrong; “Uh Oh“. Continue reading »
It’s not original and it’s been done so many times before but … what’s in your dock and where is it? Mine’s at the bottom of the screen, hiding off, magnification off.
On the left hand side there’s the the Finder, Dashboard, Mail, Firefox, Safari, Adium, Vienna, Address Book, iTunes and iCal.
In the middle there’s Terminal, SSH Tunnel Manager, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, OmniGraffle Professional, OmniOutliner, FastTrack Schedule, Xcode and System Preferences.
Finally, on the right hand side, there’s Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection, Cisco VPN Client, iSync, smcFanControl, Think and VMWare Fusion.
So there.
