I know, I’ve taken my time, but I had to comment on Mountain Lion
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Archive for the ‘Software’ Category
Jan
15
2012
Tabletifcation
This week I got to ‘play’ with OSX 10.7 Lion on a a 27 inch iMac and this got me thinking about the tabletifcation of operating systems.
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Nov
23
2011
5 days with Lion
Last Saturday, I finally made the leap from Snow Leopard to Lion on my Mac. I had always been planing to do this after this years Nanowrimo, but since I’ve failed at that this year, there was no point in holding off till December.
So after 5 days, what do I think?
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Aug
29
2011
Langtons Ant runs again
Aug
22
2011
Programming complexity
I used to be a full time, professional developer working on internet email and web security services for upwards of 250,000 users, so I figured that I could tackle a simple programming project using a modern desktop development environment.
I was wrong!
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Aug
20
2011
It’s patently ridiculous
Yes, that is my opinion of all the patent cases that tech companies are throwing at each other right now.
Apple suing Samsung, Samsung suing Apple, HTC suing Apple, Apple suing, Nokia suing Apple…well the list goes on. I might have got some of these wrong, but at this point I just don’t care anymore!
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Jul
13
2011
A very cool idea
A very cool idea from a David Hewson. Use Scriveners sync with folder option locally to sync with your favourite distraction free writing tool.
I’ve used the folder sync option in Scrivener so I work with files on the iPad (via Dropbox), but I would never through of using this feature to sync to a local folder. Very simple and it works really well. Now when I want to worry about the structure of a story I edit it directly in Scrivener, when I want to just write, I use Byword and do just that!
A very cool idea indeed!
Jul
10
2011
Distraction free writing apps
It seems that there are an awful lot of these distraction free or full screen writing apps around these days. It seems to be the current software fashion.
Do I use them and are they actually any help to the writing process?
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May
25
2011
Return of the Journler!
Jan
29
2011
Excel and Numbers
There is no point in denying it, I am a spreadsheet geek (as well as being all sorts of other geeks as well!) So when someone on line, asked me which was better on the Mac, Excel or Numbers, I couldn’t resist, putting my throughs down on paper (screen!?)
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