Rage against the … Bad Apple Bad Apple!

Hmm here i go again, trying to install mac os x 10.4 onto an lacie external FW disk only to discover, apple put all sorts of hinderences in your way.

Fist of all Why OH bloody WHy do they give you a set of disks with the machine that will only install on the machine you bought it with specifically ? And then not mark those disk clearly as being crippled in such a manner ? 10.4 for macbook pro intell generation x specific internal drives only etc for example, I suppose from apples wanky vanity point of view, Continue reading

Entourage 2008 syncing watch out

For a client I was syncing using entourage 2008 new ical syncing feature, and when it imported all the clients calendars labels into a single group in ical, i decided to delete that group in ical as this wasnt a sufficient result for me, as i wanted seperate groups for each label type used in the entourage calendar, it immediateley started syncing back to entourage the deletion from ical, back in the opposite direction and boom it deleted all the calendars from the clients entourage so be carefull when using entourage 2008’s built in sync services this is a warning, luckily i had an older version to revert to, but thats a serious issue. I even set it to so that entourage should write over ical but it synced the deletion back to entourage, quiting entourage while it did deleted, did not save any calendar information either as it was a true background process.

My two Penneth worth on the iPhone 3G

Well yesterday ninth of June, Apple did what everyone was expecting and introduced the new 3G iPhone, the features are pretty much as expected.
obviously 3g means faster data capability, but they added aGPS (assisted GPs) capability, and they lowered the price by $200 or £99 here in the UK. They also demoed spatial tracking of your friends nearby, things are heading in the right direction but evolution is slow.

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