Category Archives: Software

Sony Ericsson k800i updates- a whole pile of fun

The k800i is, all-in-all a very nice phone. One of it’s main fairly innovate features is that it can run firmware updates from the menu and download them over the air. This would be fairly useful as a first diagnostic against a software problem with the phone as the occasional 20mb download wouldn’t really hurt […]

Mac Heist and Guitar

Mac Heist has been at it again with another heist which is listed as a skunk works heist in partnership with Mac Update, and as usual they are generously offering free stuffs in the way of the excellent IRC client Linkinus and have bolstered the programs in the bundle by including private beta access to […]

New Version (coming soon) and other miscellaneous updates!

Here’s a preview of what’s soon going to be the new look of themak.org:

All critisism welcome for the new design.
The new theme is also going to mark a whole new version of themak.org, the move from the brilliant PALGN free hosting to an ASO shared hosting plan where I will also move this blog from […]

32 Rebuffed Mac Myths (Reply to: PC PRO’s 32 reasons why PC’s are better than Macs)

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Part 2 of: 32 Rebuffed Mac Myths

Statist for OSX

Of immeasurable value.
In other news: Statistics coursework looking less like a 50 tonne weight descending on me. Normal updates resume other end of the tunnel.

Congrats to Matt Gemmell

Congratulations and good luck for Matt Gemmell who’s going independant in 2007. From the open source code that he’s released, it’s clear that we’ll be seing some rather exciting new program.

MacHeist

Yesterday I received an invitation to the new brainchild from the makers of mydreamapp (I voted portal); MacHeist. Personally I don’t know what it is yet, but I do know that I will get hevilly discounted or free shareware. And in my books, that’s a good thing.

Google’s new playing field


Sound notification- so very very useful

Sound notification is useful, it tells me when I have new mail or an im. This is more useful with growl- but I digress. Now where this starts to become less useful is when many programs use the same nondescript sounds, and when there’s more than one set of speakers which are linked to something […]

Miscelania

Well, now I have become a member of teenage blogging network randomshapes- I’m going to start a series of possibly useful insights on OSX soonish. In other news: I have just this Saturday finished the walk for my Duke of Edinburgh award Bronze and have signed up for the Silver. Photos coming soon I […]

Itty bitty little icons.

Just using Powerpoint and noticed this:
No Image:
With big image: