Over the past few years I’ve needed to recover files from various USB sticks and SD cards using my Mac. I’ve recently needed to do this again, and every time I’m asked I always forget the application I use! So I’m created a blog post so it’s easy to search for!
Read On →I have mixed feelings about Google. On the one hand their search engine is next to ubiquitous, most browsers come with it as the default, and they also have some pretty excellent services. On the other hand, and perhaps this is my Apple synapse firing, I see them as a new enemy, and one that isn’t doing much to try and win me over.
Read On →Taken from Small Labs Inc., here’s a histogram of my most used commands:
Read On →Technology moves so fast, doesn’t it? I mean who would want such a battered looking laptop?
Read On →Well it’s been a long time since I’ve been here. After a quick update it all looks very shiny again. What happened to 2013!? Mostly full of work, friends, and reading in the ruins of Aberystwyth castle.
Read On →A few of weeks ago, I was sitting in a local café with my good friend Adam Blackburn. I can’t quite recall how we got onto the topic, but Adam turned to me and asked “How many sleepers are there in the UK?”, not being able to tell him, he decided it would be my ‘homework’. We laughed about it a bit, and somewhat forgot about it, but I was left pondering. A couple of weeks later, questioning a couple of people at work, and using my Google-fu I was able to give Adam an answer.
Read On →Over the last five years the iPhone has gone through numerous designs, both physical design and hardware design. Here is a quick look at the specs of each iDevice (Note that the iPhone CPUs are underclocked):
Read On →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 hardware design to be?
Read On →At WWDC 2006, Steve Jobs said the following about porting OS X to the Intel architecture
Read On →“Porting an operating system to an entirely different processor architecture is no easy task and our software team did a magnificent job of taking this on the PowerPC and turning it into this on Intel architecture. So they made it look really easy and it’s gone seamlessly which has enabled this amazing transition to occur in 210 days, but under the hood and you all know, this was 86,000,000 lines of source code that was ported to run on an entirely different architecture with zero hiccups.” But has the transition really gone that well? I suppose at the time it had, but almost six years on what can be said? Let’s take a quick look at the history of OS X on Intel.
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 touted some interesting facts about the App Store
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