This is my second eBook pick courtesy of my Kindle DX and sheds some light on the internal operations of Google covering things from its genesis in a university right through to significant products such as Google Mail, Android and, of course, search. “In The Plex” was written by Steven Levy who also wrote Hackers, …
Category: Apple
Oct 14 2011
Apple iPhone 4S Unboxing
Here it is, the Apple iPhone 4S and another unboxing video. This phone replaces the iPhone 3GS my wife has had for two years which has been having regular heart attacks. Hopefully this phone will fare much better (as well as skipping the pain that was the iOS 5 upgrade). FYI – the video will …
Oct 13 2011
Fix iOS 5 Upgrade and Error 1303 (Error -1303)
Well, I decided to upgrade my original iPad to iOS 5 this evening and received “Error -1303” (or “Error 1303” to help the search engines find it more easily) three times. I was offered the option to proceed without backing up my device but I didn’t think that was a good option. I ran another …
Oct 13 2011
Incoming Gadget – Apple iPhone 4S
Just a heads up that I will be heading out to the Apple store in Hornsby to pick up an iPhone 4S (not for myself though but for my wife who really needs to replace her iPhone 3GS which is on its last legs). That said, she has kindly offered to let me unbox it …
Oct 06 2011
Farewell Steve Jobs
It should come as no news that Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple, died today just one day after the iPhone 4S was announced at Apple HQ in Cupertino. Love him or hate him, he made a profound impact upon the world of technology with things such as: the iPod and the major push into digital …
Sep 28 2011
Access Accented and Special Characters Easily in Mac OS X Lion
Here is a quick tip for tonight. On the odd occasion you might need to use accented characters like “é” or “ç” or even “ß” but don’t want to go through the chore of finding that character somewhere else and doing a copy and paste. Luckily, under Mac OS X 10.7 you can hold down …
Sep 24 2011
iTunes Playing Audio Out of Sync With Audio
This is just an observation that I have made on my own computer so I don’t know if this is more widespread. Today, I was troubleshooting an issue when playing videos and the audio going in and out of sync (or maybe vice versa depending on how you anchor things). This was happening in Windows …
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