The Writings of a Freelance Infrastructure Consultant
I recently visited the Royal Society’s Summer Science Exhibition and thoroughly enjoyed it. It was interesting and fun, and the enthusiasm of the scientists and their impressive achievements left me feeling very uplifted and optimistic. The information being presented was fascinating, but it was also intriguing to see how they presented the information. A wide [...]
Using my charts on Last.fm, I’ve just made a list of my top 20 most listened to tracks of 2009 (well, of the last 12 months to be precise, but that’s near enough). I’ve ignored all the Dicepeople tracks because I listened to those hundreds of times whilst mastering my album so those don’t count. [...]
I can’t remember when I last had any idea who was in the Top 40, or when I last listened to the radio, or when I last paid any attention to the ‘new releases’ section in HMV. Christmas Number One isn’t something I’ve concerned myself with for a very long time. As far as I’m [...]
Front Row isn’t too bad as media centre software goes, but it doesn’t do a particularly brilliant job of displaying collections of movies and TV shows which you have on your hard disk. It also doesn’t allow plugins (although a couple of hacks have tried to get around this) and it doesn’t have a mechanism [...]
Back in the olden days I used to be quite a hi-fi ‘buff’, but a few years ago I started to listen to my MP3 collection more than my CD collection. I loved being able to have exactly the songs I liked in my collection without lots of ‘filler’ tracks that you often get on [...]
Installation I’ve installed Leopard on both my Macs. The installs were very smooth, and there was only one incompatible third party application (the Last.fm application, although they’ve already updated that now so it works with Leopard). This is incredibly impressive for a new operating system, especially considering the quantity and range of third party applications [...]