Posts Tagged ‘apple’
Create a US iTunes Account
In: Technology
11 Jul 2010While most content is made available across the world, every so often there is an app for the iPhone or iPad that is only available in the US app store. For example, the BBC News app which has been written by the BBC has been blocked for release in the UK pending a review by [...]
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Recommended iPad App’s
In: Technology
6 Jun 2010It’s only been out in the UK for a few days but there is already a great range of software available for the iPad. Here’s our top picks from the app store.
Air Video
Air Video is an app for viewing video content stored on your local Mac. Once the helper app is installed on your Mac [...]
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iPad Review
In: Technology
6 Jun 2010It’s one week since I got my grubby little paws on the iPad. So whats the verdict? How does it feel? Is it worth it? As usual with Apple the packaging is excellent and without much fuss you’ve got the iPad out of the box and switched on. It comes pre-charged (around 85%) so you [...]
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This Is It
In: Technology
30 May 2010Friday May 28th. This was the day of the iPad launching internationally. Initially I wasn’t sure about picking up an iPad. Shakeel was even more doubtful. We’d seen the reviews but how useful would it be? Is it really that fast and usable? Then a couple of weeks ago at our talk at Glasgow MUG [...]
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What I want from iPhone OS 4.0
In: Technology
6 Apr 2010So it’s Thursday for the details on iPhone OS 4.0. What I’d like to see, not what I expect to see:
Multitasking. Let me run programs in the background. Make it easy to swap between running programs. Let me kill the battery life if i want to. To be fair, there’s probably only a handful of [...]
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Mac Mini Media Centre – What Else?
In: Mac Mini
21 Mar 2010Our last few posts on using a Mac Mini as a Media Centre device have focussed on using Media Centre software like Plex and Boxee to playback locally stored content. While this is my main reason for buying a Mini there is a lot more you can do with it – listen to radio, stream [...]
Mac Mini Media Centre – XBMC
In: Mac Mini
20 Feb 2010Welcome to the seventh of a series of posts on setting up a Mac Mini Media Centre. This post will look at the daddy of open source media centre app’s, XBMC. When reviewing Plex and Boxee I mentioned that both were forks from XBMC, or Xbox Media Centre to give it it’s full title. In [...]
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