Readability

Would you like to be able to read websites without all the distractions of ads, flash pop-ups and banners? Readability strips away all the clutter from the page and leaves you with just the content that you want to read.

Go to the Arc90 website, select your settings, then drag the bookmarklet to your browser’s [...]

Snow Leopard on Dell Mini 9

Here’s my Dell Mini 9 running Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.1.

I followed the instructions on MyDellMini.com to do the upgrade from Leopard 10.5.7. The internal drive has been upgraded to a RunCore 64GB SSD so the easiest way to upgrade is to remove it, connect it to another Mac via USB, then [...]

Snow Leopard

If you’re running an Intel-based Mac you should really run out and buy the latest version of Apple’s operating system, Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard.

Snow Leopard

To learn more, see Apple’s Snow Leopard pages and MacWorld’s extensive coverage. To check that your critical applications will run under the new OS go to [...]

Posterous Review on TUAW

Here’s a great review of PicPosterous on The Unofficial Apple Weblog. Posterous is the really easy blogging service and PicPosterous is the companion iPhone app for photos and videos.

I’m using Posterous now because a) I can email anything to post@posterous.com and it will appear on my posterous blog and b) because it will automatically [...]

Dell Mini 9 Driving Dell 24″ Monitor

Dell Mini 9 running second monitor at 1200 x 1920

Just got a new Dell 24″ monitor. Just for research purposes, I tried connecting it to my Dell Mini 9 and then rotating the monitor to portrait mode. A couple of Display Preference clicks later I had this! It’s running the 24″ at 1200 [...]

LaCie Power Supplies

In 2006 and 2007 I bought five LaCie external disc drives, mostly the d2 or d2 Quandra models with a capacity of 500GB. I also bought two LaCie Mini 500GB drives, the kind that match a mac mini and sit neatly underneath it. #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; [...]

Test post from Posterous

Posterous is a new service that allows you to post to multiple sites in one go from an email account. Once you’ve opened your free account, you add services such as Twitter, Flickr, Facebook and your WordPress blogs to your posterous options, then an email to post@posterous.com adds it to all your sites.

Posterous also [...]

Nintendo DSi

Nintendo DSi

Proud owner of the new Nintendo DSi! No stock in Game this morning (Saturday) but HMV at LHR T3 had loads. More when I’ve had a chance to play with it.

It’s a Windows world according to the BBC

There’s something of a brouhaha over this report from the BBC.

No Mac advice as BBC team exposes…its Windows-centricity – Digital Lifestyle – Macworld UK

MSI Wind running Mac OS X

I’ve bought an MSI Wind for travelling. It was only £309 from play.com and came with Windows XP, a 160GB hard drive, 1 GB RAM, wifi, bluetooth and a 6-cell battery. A second gig of RAM cost about £11 from crucial.com. It’s now running Mac OS X, 10.5.6. There’s lots of information at [...]