Work supplied iPad

I just installed an app to update my blog from the ipad. The boss supplied me and a workmate with 64GB 3G models for research and testing. I’m still playing with it and installing apps. I’ve written a few small apps for iPhone (SDK 3.1) but would like to do more with Objective C. The [...]

Some work done

I’ve finally gotten around to doing some stuff to this blog. I’m trying this theme and so far I’m happier with it. I’ll be doing some more customisation shortly! Obsolete browsers I have decided that I won’t even test my personal sites in IE6 any more. There are a few features I’m planning on adding [...]

Internet shaped at work

Some bright spark decided to download 26GB of stuff a few days into our billing month, which pushed us seriously close to our (peak) 40GB download limit. Then somehow there were several days with 3-4GB of downloads (even on a Saturday!) – normally usage is less than 1GB per day. All this means our 11Mbps [...]

iMacs are cool (except when they are running Windows)

Went to a client training site today (my work is quoting on a new sales tool for that company, and we were checking out their current tool) and it was a room full of iMacs. This is the room where they train new sales people on their products and how to sell it. However each [...]

Outages today

I was mostly unaffected, except having no mobile phone reception for the entire morning. My work internet and phones are through other companies and we didn’t notice anything. The Boss was out of the office and his mobile is through Three so we couldn’t call him. No great loss. The housemate also once called to [...]

iMacs for all

I work for a small interactive media company and the Boss announced that he is upgrading all our Windows based PCs to shiny iMacs! They arrived yesterday so I’ve been playing around with Leopard and spent a whole day installing software and stuff and getting used to the differences. I’ve haven’t had an Apple system [...]