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Mac 20 Questions

Just started a new blog in the last couple of weeks in which I chat to Mac users about how they use their Mac’s. Going really well with it and have interviewed 22 people so far. 18 interviews have been published as podcasts so far and I have more interviews lined up for later in [...]

MacBook on its way

I ordered a MacBook and it will have to go to my brothers’ address in Newcastle because I want it with an English Keyboard.

Apple will not send it to my address here in Spain because it is a refurbished model.

If I go to the Spanish site it will come with a Spanish Keyboard and will [...]

Mac Fan Boy

A Mac Fan Boy or girl is someone that will stand on the side of Apple whatever happens due to a love of the Apple Mac experience. The beauty of the hardware, the ease of use of the software and the fact that it is not Windows.
I am not quite a Fan Boy but I [...]

Macworld comments

As you know I am a Mac User. I switched from Windows about 3 years ago now and I consider myself to be a Mac person now and have got a bit like many Mac Users a bit of a zealot. I can’t stand using Windows and when I have to to for work or [...]

Got an iPhone at last

When I got it this morning it had the older version of the operating system on it and I wondered why I could not load three apps on to it. There was a couple of hundred of mb’s to download to upgrade to the latest version – 2.1 and all went well after that.

I did [...]

Digital sketch book

When I was an art student I was always with a sketch book. When I was an art teacher I tried to give the lowly and much misunderstood sketch book an uplift by renamiing it a Visual Studies Diary. I encouraged the student to think of the empty white pages as a recepticle for ideas [...]

What a day !!

I started work at 8am and it was going well enough until the guy working with me got himself sacked for stupidity. Easy done – making silly mistakes and getting caught out. So when I was supposed to have 2 hours for lunch I only got 1 hour and that was not enough.

I was able [...]

On it’s way – iMac 24

The iMac was due to be dispatched yesterday and according to the email I got in the morning from Apple it did leave the factory on the day it was supposed to leave. There is a facility in the order to follow its progress and I will be doing that on a daily basis. The [...]

A busy time with operating systems

Apart from the new set up of OSX Leopard I have been playing with Ubuntu and I have to say I like it. The reason for that is that I bought a laptop, and I went for cheapness. I got the laptop for 400 Euro and I put Ubuntu on it so that I would [...]

Upgraded the iMac to Leopard

Looking good so far. Didn’t take too long to make the upgrade, just over an hour and I have a shiny new machine. I like the look of the Cover flow view in Finder.

At the moment I m copying back the previous installed applications back in off the back up drive. Apple do have a [...]