Month: August, 2009

How I fixed choppy Spaces in Snow Leopard

31 August, 2009 (14:03) | , , | 8 comments

It took a lot of Googling, but I finally came across a post on MacRumors’ forums from back when Leopard came out. It seems this is a common problem with Apple’s .0 releases !
Basically, you need to run Quartz Debug. Next, go to Tools, then ‘Show Beam Sync Tools.  When the new window pops up, [...]

Macworld shows of Snow Leopard

28 August, 2009 (21:05) | , | No comments

Much browsing, researching and video watching has thrown up this little Youtube video from the guys at Macworld.com.
Watch Dan Frakes show off the new, contextualized services menu and more – there’s even some things in there you may not know about !

This week’s technology links – Week 34

24 August, 2009 (16:37) | | No comments

This is the start of a series of weekly posts highlighting a handful of technology links I found interesting in the past week.
I must confess to getting the idea for these posts from Andrew Mason (Twitter link) over on his DidIGetThingsDone blog. Thanks Andrew – hope you don’t mind !
The links in these posts are [...]

Order Snow Leopard 10.6 now

24 August, 2009 (12:59) | , | 4 comments

It’s here, and it’s early !
Apple’s latest and greatest OS is now available to order from the Apple online store.  The release date ? Friday, 28th of August. Not long to wait now folks !
I just placed my order on the UK store – and at £25 I’d be mad not to !
Links for the [...]

Pushing Tweets – iTweetReply

12 August, 2009 (15:11) | , | No comments

When Apple told us we were going to get push notifications way back at the dawn of time (well, it feels like it was that long ago!) I started looking forward to pushed tweets. Since we finally got the fabled notifications with iPhone OS 3.0 we’ve bee treated to a trickle of Twitter apps promising [...]

CoPilot v8 for Windows Mobile

12 August, 2009 (07:04) | , | No comments

Just had a press release saying CoPilot v8 has landed for Windows Mobile.
Pics (click for larger):

According to the press release, some of the key features are….

Review: Zenonia

4 August, 2009 (09:17) | , , | 1 comment

*This is our first guest review by game reviewer Haly. You can find Haly at Halycopter.com and on Twitter as @JenJeaHaly. Haly also reviews for XboxGameZone, play.tm and ThePortableGamer.*
Take it away Haly….

Zenonia
Despite the wonders of the app store and its many games, there is also a lot of, how can I put this nicely, shovelware [...]