Category Archives: Computing
Free excel 2009 wall/year planners
Finally I am able to supply you all with my year planners for 2009. Sorry for the delay, i have been busy with a month-long trip to Morocco on my motorcycle as well as the complications of crashing on a … Continue reading
Free excel 2008 wall/year planners
I’m getting in on the act early for this years version (for 2008) of my strangely popular Sasco style year planners. As before, they’re done in Microsoft Excel format and are available in both horizontal and vertical formats. Please feel … Continue reading
Make your Sony Ericsson W880i work with the Apple OS X Address Book
Sorry, but it seems that the SMS functionality has been removed from OS X 10.5 Leopard, so this is 10.4 only for now. You can easily enable support for sending and receiving SMS messages and making and receiving calls to … Continue reading
Sony Ericsson w880i plugin alpha for iSync 2.4 released
It seems that the Tiger 10.4.9 update has caused new installations of my w880i plugin to stop working. I have released a new version on the plugin page. Working package installers to come soon, along with plugins for other unsupported … Continue reading
iSync Plugin for Sony Ericsson W880i
I got a new Sony Ericsson W880i this weekend and, although it’s not officially support by Apple’s iSync, I had gambled that, like other SE models, I would be able to hack the plugin files to get it working. However, … Continue reading
PCs vs Macs
Today my attention was brought (via Digg) to a Guardian Unlimited article by Charlie Brooker on the British “Get a Mac” Ads and why he hates Macs and Mac users. Now, I am someone who’s been using, building and programming … Continue reading
Free excel 2007 wall/year planners
Following the moderate success of last year’s Sasco style year planners, I have finally gotten around to doing a pair for 2007. As before, they’re done in Microsoft Excel format and there are both horizontal and vertical versions. Feel free … Continue reading
MacBook Pro (Number 2)
Oh dear… Looks like I spoke too soon when I said that I didn’t have any problems with my new MacBook Pro. It seems that my machinehad some kind of problem with the keyboard controller. When it got warm, it … Continue reading
MacBook Pro
I finally succumbed to the temptation last night and I’m writing this from my new MacBook Pro! So far I don’t seem to have any of the manufacturing issues/faults that prevented me from buying one before so it looks like … Continue reading
Consolas font
Microsoft have apparently bundled six new TrueType fonts in with their new Vista OS, one of which is a monospaced font designed for coding. I thought I’d give it a try and I’m really liking it. It goes a bit … Continue reading