Entries Tagged as 'Apple'

Tuesday, August 19th, 2008

More free MobileMe

I signed up for the free 60 day trial in July. MobileMe’s launch problems granted most users a free 30 day extension. Now they’ve given us all another 60 day extension. At this rate, I may never have to pay for it.

Saturday, July 12th, 2008

All hail the Jesus phone

A test post from the new iPhone 3G. Wow this thing is remarkably cool. I wonder how long it’ll take before I get sick of it. A long while I’ll bet!

Saturday, June 28th, 2008

Sydney’s cost of living

After the Media Law final on Wednesday, got another stark jolt of the reality of living in Sydney. After plumping for 1 or 2 coffees a day, 5 days a week for the past semester (at $2.40 a pop, which frankly is among the cheapest brown stuff in the city), not to mention lunch, you’d [...]

Thursday, September 6th, 2007

The psychology of prices and being a cheap bastard

Moving (temporarily) away from things political. My iBook is nearing its last legs, its latest malady being a broken latch. I bought it at the beginning of 1st year, hoping it’d last all the way through uni. At the time Macs were still held in scorn by most people, but one of the apparent “positives” [...]

Sunday, June 11th, 2006

Firefox Mac preferences annoyance

It’s a bit annoying that to access the preferences panel in Firefox I have to press Command + , twice. This only happens initially; all subsequent preferences-accessing works normally. It’s repeatable on PowerPC and Universal Binary versions, and has been there as long as I’ve used it. This is only an issue because to use [...]