The iPhone 6. Apple following the crowd
Part of the reason Apple are Apple is because they do not feel the need to follow the crowd. But with the iPhone 6, that’s exactly what they’ve done, followed…
The new iPad
I bought the original iPad on the UK day of release and have used it daily ever since. I was at SXSW last year when the iPad2 was released but…
Run Disk Utility before installing OSX Lion
I ran into a problem installing Lion on my Mac Pro. The install screen appeared to be stuck at 33 minutes with no sign of progress. Several reboots later and…
Playing iPlayer content via the AppleTV2
The new AppleTV is a great little device if the majority of your content is stored in your iTunes library. But there’s one serious limitation for UK users. It cannot…
Apple EU Education Summit 2011
On Tuesday, I spent a fascinating day at Apple’s EU Education Summit. The summit explored how mobile learning has the potential to act as a transformation agent in European Higher…
iPad six months on
I bought an iPad on the UK day of release so have now been using it for about 6 months. So I thought it was about time to reflect on…
Muting the Mac ‘bong’
I know I’m not alone in finding the Mac startup ‘bong’ extremely annoying, especially if you have to start your computer in a meeting or public place. Pre-Intel hardware, the…
11″ MacBook Air
My first personal Mac was a 12″ Powerbook. It was purchased for testing purposes but it quickly became my computer of choice for the majority of work. The only reason…
iPad – is it what education needs?
There’s going to be a lot of comment on the iPad and it’s capabilities. I thought I’d take a look at it from a ‘Higher Education’ perspective. The ‘tablet’ form…
Mac Pro & Cinema Display unboxing
I’ve finally persuaded work that I need a Mac for my replacement computer. I’ve always been given RM ‘workstations’ (that have to last 4 years) that are really just fairly standard…