Lake Schwarzsee Panorama
I’ve now had time to play with some of my photos taken in Austria… I just can’t get enough of this view from the shores of Lake Schwarzsee. Not a bad photo taken on an iPhone 4 either.
Category: Technology
Testing New Wheels and Some PB’s
It’s always difficult to do a proper test of new parts or new kit for the bike. There are always so many variables at play that it’s not easy to say for sure whether or not these things make a difference, especially when testing in the real world and especially when you don’t have a...
Home Automation
I know it sounds silly, but now that I have a car with remote locking from the keyfob, when I get home and go to open the front door I keep looking for a button to press on my keyring! I’d never missed remote locking on my car until I had it and now I...
Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
As many of you may know, I’ve had numerous problems with the altimeter on my Forerunner 910XT. Since lusting after the Forerunner 910XT back in October 2011, I bought one in February 2012. I then wrote a glowing report on the Forerunner 910XT with my first impressions – it did just about everything I wanted it...
Phew!
Well, that has been a stressful few days thanks to website and hosting issues, which is also my excuse for not posting anything here for a few days. I don’t think anyone is still quite sure what went wrong, but the server upon which my sites and many of my clients sites are hosted decided to...
Creating a Family Calendar
It’s become a bit of a Christmas tradition for us now. Every year I give the family a gift of a calendar based on photos of the previous year. It doesn’t actually take too long to do thanks to the built in calendar creation tool in iPhoto. I use iPhoto to manage my photographs anyway...
Carbonite Problems and Backup Woes
Well, I have my new iMac all set up and running. Data Migration The migration procedure was fairly straight forward thanks to the fact that I have plenty of cloned backups courtesy of SuperDuper!. I simply started up the new iMac and used Apple’s built in set-up assistant to transfer my data from a cloned...
Xmas Tree Stop Motion
We usually don’t put our Christmas decorations up until after my birthday, but seeing as we had been to Bristol for the Christmas visit, have a busy week this week and had an evening to spare we thought we’d put them up last night. We stuck mainly with the tried and tested plan with the...
Apple Education Store
As employees of the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, Anna and I are entitled to buy products through the Apple Education Store and thereby receive discounts. The Apple Education Store states “If you are a student, teacher, lecturer, administrator or other staff member in education you qualify for special discounted pricing on Apple computers, software and...
Time for a new iMac
If you can’t decide which new iMac to get, then the decision process I went through whilst deciding which iMac to buy may just hep you. That’s why I’m sharing it here. Mac vs PC Before you Windows guys tell me to ‘get a PC’, it won’t work. I’ve used Apple Macintosh computers ever since my...
