Category: Technology

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Playing with Video Clips

It is rare that I get to ‘play’ with some of the more creative applications on my computer. I generally use the same old applications day in day out and the usual suspects are: Photoshop PageSpinner Firefox Mail Netfinder Word FileMaker Pro MoneyDance and maybe a few things like iTunes, some OS X Dashboard Widgets...

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Mac Accounting Software

Tax return time looms, so I thought it was time to re-assess the way I keep track of my business finances. So, I have recently spent some time on the not very exciting task of finding some decent accounting software to help me keep track of my business income and expenditure. I just couldn’t find...

Apple Boot Camp 0

Apple Boot Camp

There were three main reasons why I didn’t plump for an Intel based Mac when I bought my new computer a couple of weeks agao Everything was just a little too new for my liking and I wanted to wai for version 2 of the IntelMacs so that any problems wold have been ironed out....

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Family Tree Software for a Mac

I’ve never been into genealogy, but I’ve been scouring the Apple downloads site for software updates for my new computer recently and while I was there came across a few nice looking Family Tree programs. Anna’s mum is into genealogy so I thought I would check them out. To start with none seemed to quite...

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New Computer

I still haven’t sorted out my broken laptop but will be sending it off for an independent fault report soon. I’m still under the impression that a £2000 laptop should last more than 20 months and that my statutory rights under the Sale of Good Act covers me for such eventualities over an above any...

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Google Earth

OK, OK, I know it has been around for ages, but it hasn’t been available for the Mac OS 10.3 Operating System for long, so I have only recently got my hands on it. All I can say is AMAZING! Now I just have to find a use for it other than simply browsing at...

Death of an Apple Powerbook 0

Death of an Apple Powerbook

Grrrrr….. My nice shiny 15″ 1.5Ghz Apple Powerbook has blown up… It is less than 2 years old, cost me close to £2,000 and has been treated very gently, but the logic board is fried and it looks as though a repair is going to cost as much as buying a new machine.. I’m not...

Borth, Wales –  Weather Station Goes Live 1

Borth, Wales – Weather Station Goes Live

It has been a busy old christmas here for me working on the now up and running Borth and Ynyslas weather station. I had already set up the weather station itself but have now connected the weather station to a PC and produced several web-pages that provide up to the minute weather data for Borth,...

To Do List 0

To Do List

I was playing around on a website yesterday that seems to be one of those sites that is something of an internet phenomenon. As with most ‘internet phenomena’ it is a very simple idea that has just caught on and now has a cult following. The site is http://www.43things.com. Put simply it allows you to...

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Borth Weather Station

Here in Wales and elsewhere in the UK we are all obsessed with the weather… Even a quick read through this weblog will prove this as there seems to be quite a few references to what the weather has been up to. Maybe its because we are quite exposed here and really feel the full...