Looking forward at iOS hardware
Over the last five years the iPhone has gone through numerous designs, both physical design and hardware design.
Category Archives: Apple
Looking forward at Mac hardware
Last month at WWDC, Apple announced a new MacBook: The MacBook Pro with Retina display. Specs can be found in my WWDC 2012 post or on the Apple Specs page. But what could we broadly expect Apple’s behaviour on future Mac Continue reading
Has the transition to Intel gone “seamlessly”?
At WWDC 2006, Steve Jobs said the following about porting OS X to the Intel architecture “Porting an operating system to an entirely different processer architecture is no easy task and our software team did a magnificent job of taking Continue reading
WWDC 2012
Late as always, Apple’s 23rd WWDC kicked off almost a month ago after selling out in just 1h43m! This years event kicked off with Siri warming up the crown and GarageBand on an iPad playing a sting after each joke. Apple Continue reading
Receive iMessages on multiple devices
If you have an iPhone and an iPad or a Mac running Messages.app you may have noticed that messages don’t seem to appear across devices, or that you have multiple conversations for someone. Think of email, you have one email Continue reading
Adding Emoji (smilies) to the iPhone
Adding colourful emoticons (or smilies) to texts, emails, and messages can help to liven things up a bit. Unfortunately the Emoji keyboard isn’t accessible by default, but this post will show you how to enable it!
Just an update
Once upon a time I had the notion that I would post something vaguely interesting or helpful once a month. While working at Sun that was easy (also making myself blog about my weekly activities for later reference helped), even Continue reading
Do I really agree with Apple’s EULAs?
After the death of Steve Jobs Richard Stallman has said some somewhat callous things about Jobs and Apple and how they have us in “digital handcuffs”. When we purchase a piece of Apple hardware or software, we must accept a Continue reading
Goodbye, Steve
I sat down at my computer this morning before work, I glanced at my tweets, then at my RSS, I realised what had happened. Yesterday the world lost a great man, Steve Jobs. I know that this will be plastered Continue reading
Sherlock
Sherlock is one of my all time favourites. No, not the stories, the game!