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With the recent demise of my only Windows PC I have been using my Macbook in its place. All that is well and good except that one of my classes in college is ‘Business Applications’ which should really be renamed ‘Microsoft Office 2007  and nothing else’ Naturally like any other class I have a few [...]

Ever heard a song on the radio, television or wherever and wondered what it was and by whom? Yesterday I was poking about the Apple app store just to see if there was anything new of interest there. I came across Shazam and figured I would give it a whirl. It claims to recognise any [...]

Not sure how long this will last on YouTube before it gets pulled but it is an instant classic! And very accurate.. Update – As I thought all the episodes are being pulled from YouTube by request of Fox. I’ve embedded another one below. Hopefully it will last a bit longer.

Almost everyone knows that when computers are on a Local Area Network they need unique addresses. As well as unique addresses they need unique names too. In corporations this is usually something logical to them. For instance one company where I worked had a standard of naming their machines by function and location as indeed [...]

While waiting for baby to arrive I’ve been tidying things up here a bit in anticipation that I won’t have much time to spend messing about with all my equipment. Subsequently over the weekend I have consolidated my site on to my Poweredge 2800. Everything is now running off the one machine including MySQL. So [...]

Bought it, installed it as an upgrade and like it! Took myself up to ATmac in Cork city this afternoon and parted with €129 for a copy of OS X 10.5. Opted for an upgrade rather than a backup and fresh installation and I have to say it was so simple. Just a few clicks [...]

It’s the first time in years that I’m actually excited about a new release of an operating system. How sad is that? Oddly enough the last time it was for a different version of the same operating system. Back in 2000 I actually bought an Apple iMac specifically because OS X was due to be [...]