OS X and Macs

Installing OSX86 on Acer Aspire One – A few tips on where to go to find info…

For those who’ve had a look at my previous posts, you may now be interested in giving this a go yourself.  If you’re nervous, then don’t worry – it’s not THAT daunting to do.  There are some fantastic guides out there.   The main problem with doing this is that there are a lot of [...]

MicroMac Lives….

I’m always the same.  I get a device or gadget, and, when I’m getting used to it in the first few weeks, I always go into ‘What can I do with this?’ mode.  I’ll see what it can do, even if its things that I’d never use again.  I was happily playing around with Ubuntu [...]

Stacks Overlay Icons

On Leopard, one of the most annoying things about the new ‘stacks’ feature (where folders dragged onto the dock get ‘fanned out’ when you click them), is that the icon that represents the stack is always the one that is first depending on how you sort the stack. For example, if you have an ‘Applications’ [...]

OS X 10.5 – Leopard – Finally!

Yesterday, I checked the Alesis site, as I have religeously about once a fortnight, for a final version of the new drivers for my Alesis Multimix Firewire audio interface. You see… I’ve had OS X 10.5 Leopard waiting in the wings for a few months, ready to be unleashed on my iMac. However, up until [...]

4Gb!

Blimey – just upgraded my iMac to 4Gb.  That’s the most RAM I’ve ever had in any machine! Not amazingly interesting, but a bit of a landmark nonetheless!

Nokia N73 on Three UK – Use as a Modem with Mobile Broadband

I’ve been playing (and in fact am currently) with using my N73 as a modem with my PC laptop. As I’ve said before, I’m on the Three UK mobile broadband add-on, which I wanted to use with the Nokia 770. Thing is, this weekend, I’m away from home, so got the impetus to try it [...]

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