Wow! We popped over to Bournemouth this morning, to check out the new imac in Solutions shop there. I've heard a lot of conflicting reports about the new reflective screens, and the new keyboards. The screens certainly are reflective, but they are fantastic! Bright, clear, sharp, vivid! Really nice – I really want one now. As for the keyboards, they're great too, very like a laptop keyboard, easy to type on (probably take a little while to get used to, but not too long). The 2.4 gig procesors are very fast, very snappy. Can't wait to get one.
Anyway, cheers,
Kev.
Saturday 15 September 2007
Monday 10 September 2007
Coloido 1.1
Wow,
I'm actually taken aback at the extent to which the coloido screen saver has spread across the internet (particularly big in Japan I see). It's even made it onto YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_6Keu8eE0U). Well, anyway, version 1.1 is now available. You can now control the speed of the two plasma elements that make up the kaleidoscope. Now with even more hoopyness ...
Cheers,
Kev.
I'm actually taken aback at the extent to which the coloido screen saver has spread across the internet (particularly big in Japan I see). It's even made it onto YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_6Keu8eE0U). Well, anyway, version 1.1 is now available. You can now control the speed of the two plasma elements that make up the kaleidoscope. Now with even more hoopyness ...
Cheers,
Kev.
Hooray for Apple Hardware Test
Hi,
I actually thought I'd never be saying this, but hooray for Apple Hardware Test! That's the free utility that Apple ships with all new Macs. I've used it on a number of occasions in the past and, despite several hardware problems, it's never alerted me to a problem. Never. As a result, I've tended to forget about it recently, preferring instead Apple's Mac Test Pro, memtest or Tech Tool Pro if I wasn't sure about the exact fault.
However, the other day I had a 1.33ghz, 15in PowerBook with what looked initially like a hard drive failure. The machine wouldn't boot up at all, nor would it start in target firewire mode. It would boot from the Software restore disc (but Disc Utility failed to repair the disc, and it was impossible to reinstall the OS – the installation would only proceed so far, before the blue screen with the spinning wheel appeared).
Mac Test Pro and Tech Tool Pro both failed to boot the machine!
As a last resort I decided to try Apple Hardware Test (as this is included on the Software restore disc – and this was the only disc capable of booting the machine) and lo and behold, five minutes later the culprit was identified – a faulty RAM module.
A replacement from Crucial (very fast delivery!) is now in place and everything's fine.
Whodathunkit, eh?
Kev.
I actually thought I'd never be saying this, but hooray for Apple Hardware Test! That's the free utility that Apple ships with all new Macs. I've used it on a number of occasions in the past and, despite several hardware problems, it's never alerted me to a problem. Never. As a result, I've tended to forget about it recently, preferring instead Apple's Mac Test Pro, memtest or Tech Tool Pro if I wasn't sure about the exact fault.
However, the other day I had a 1.33ghz, 15in PowerBook with what looked initially like a hard drive failure. The machine wouldn't boot up at all, nor would it start in target firewire mode. It would boot from the Software restore disc (but Disc Utility failed to repair the disc, and it was impossible to reinstall the OS – the installation would only proceed so far, before the blue screen with the spinning wheel appeared).
Mac Test Pro and Tech Tool Pro both failed to boot the machine!
As a last resort I decided to try Apple Hardware Test (as this is included on the Software restore disc – and this was the only disc capable of booting the machine) and lo and behold, five minutes later the culprit was identified – a faulty RAM module.
A replacement from Crucial (very fast delivery!) is now in place and everything's fine.
Whodathunkit, eh?
Kev.
Thursday 6 September 2007
Macworld cd
Hi,
Just received the latest edition of Macworld magazine, and discovered that they've included one of my screensavers (colobar) on the cd. Excellent! (bit surprised that they didn't get in touch to ask first - is this normal?)
Anyway, cheers,
Kev.
Just received the latest edition of Macworld magazine, and discovered that they've included one of my screensavers (colobar) on the cd. Excellent! (bit surprised that they didn't get in touch to ask first - is this normal?)
Anyway, cheers,
Kev.
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