by Dave | Oct 19, 2010 | Computing
At the end of September I returned my work laptop (an old, almost dead Dell) to the office. With a battery life well under an hour and terrible performance it was almost unusable; I thought I would not miss it but I did. Within a couple of weeks I was looking at the...
by Dave | Oct 19, 2010 | Computing
My daughter started at university last month and so the time had come to get her her own computer. Initial discussions began last year, focussed on whether she wanted both a notebook & desktop or only a laptop. On one hand you have portabaility but the pain of...
by Dave | Oct 19, 2010 | Computing
After switching to RAW and moving my photos from iLife to Aperture photo editing on my Mac Mini became almost impossible, it could take a minute just to move from one photo to another. I quickly realised that I would need a new computer; from reading reviews I decided...
by Dave | Jun 22, 2010 | Computing
The much awaited version 4 of the iPhone operating system, now named iOS4, has arrived on iPhones across the world. New iPhone4s are due later this week but Apple has wisely decided to spread the load on its servers by releasing the new OS a couple of days early. I...
by Dave | May 29, 2010 | Computing
My daughter’s new MacBook Pro arrived yesterday so I have been setting it up for her. Compared to the first Mac that I set up, my own Mini two years’ ago, it was considerably more organised as I had made a list of things to do and software to install. The...
