Yeh, sorry, I’m not having an interesting time atm. MacWorld was a bit of a let down, the Air is a nice looking, ne stunning, lightweight laptop but it has fundamental drawbacks that even an ultra-portable user will eventually find inexcusable. 1 USB port? No FireWire? Oh please…

In other news, I bought 2 500GB drives for the Mac Pro because I’m sick of running out of hard drive space. I found out the Apple Wireless (Bluetooth) Keyboard works flawlessly with my Windows Mobile 6 HTC Touch. I also worked out how to use the Bluetooth phone system with sad same HTC Touch in a Land Rover Discovery 3 the other day and I have to say it’s DAMN cool

Wait, that all sounded vaguely interesting. Oh well, whatever…

via Daring Fireball (follow the link)

I thought this guy was off his trolley to start with as I have a 12MP Canon SLR and it produces beautiful photos… but then I read it properly and he actually makes a lot of sense (he specifically noted that SLRs are not included in his argument), moreover I’ve seen the effects he’s talking about myself on high-MP compacts with my own eyes.

Interesting reading for camera buffs…

Technorati Tags:
photography, megapixels, camera, compact, slr

Erm, until probably Friday, when I get paid. I have to register MarsEdit (and I will because having it there on the desktop and a handy OS X app makes mr blog more!!).

Why won’t I just use the web interface that’s been so excellently crafted into Wordpress? Well simply because the rich editor doesn’t work in Safari and it involves doing to much clocking to get to it. I think Wordpress needs a ‘POST’ button in the admin tools at the side bar.

While you are waiting in the lobby for your next flight you might want to muse these:

QuickLook Plugins (sorry, Leopard only )
http://www.quicklookplugins.com/
http://www.qlplugins.com/

In the News:
Macalope: I’ve got nothing against the iPhone. I just wouldn’t want my daughter to marry one.
PC World: Top 15 Tech Disappointments of 2007

More when I return (I hope).

Salling Clicker

This piece of software *rocks*. I bought it (as Sony Ericsson Clicker) years back when I had a Sony Ericsson t68i and I love it even more now than I did back then. If you have a compatible Bluetooth phone and like chilling out away from the computer to watch a movie or, well anything, then this is for you. I am using the standard installed version on the T-Mobile Touch (Windows Mobile 6) I got last week and the combination of the touch screen and Salling Clicker is a total winner. I have a customizable universal remote for both my Macs. I mostly use it at the moment to control my iTunes machine (iMac G4/800). I can navigate around the playlists in iTunes, control playback, it’s like having a iPod stereo system. Also it allows you to put the computer to sleep. A REALLY neat feature I struck upon last night was I made a cell call on the phone while I was connected to the iMac and the music faded down as I picked the phone up… and back in when I closed the call. Damn that is so cool…

By default 3.5.1 comes with controls for all the major Apple apps, and Powerpoint and a few others to boot. Fancy kicking back and flicking through your weeks video podcasts while you sit away from your computer? No problem. You don’t even have to go back to the computer to check and read your e-mail!

Oh and it’s also available for Windows… I can’t vouch for it there though as I only ever use the OS X version.

I ripped one side of my room apart again. Took another machine off my main desk and put it elsewhere. At the moment it’s one of those horrible things where you had to make a total mess in order to move anything and I’m sat in the middle of it blogging

UPDATE: I finished late on on Saturday evening and I’m now much happier wit h how the room is. I can’t get in my wardrobe because it has 2 RGB monitors propped against it but hey…