Archived posts for January, 2005

MPAA’s Parent File Scan / greedy people

Saturday, January 29th, 2005

From the same people that bought us DVD regioning, in an anachronistic move reminiscent of the RIAA, the MPAA have released a program for parents to run on their childrens computers to snoop on peer-to-peer software, movie and music files. There is a good report on the BBC for further reading.

Of course it is [...]

Powerbook G5? Hey Look Ma, I’m a Mac Rumour Site!

Saturday, January 29th, 2005

I have a strict internal policy of not posting items like this (yeah, sure!), but dammit, I really want one of these…

Following the Register article showing Powerbook G5 code embedded in one of the Apple product pages, MacOS Rumors is reporting that the French Apple site has a reference to said machine on the 17” [...]

Real life design studio stories…

Tuesday, January 18th, 2005

It’s not easy being a graphic designer. No, really…

Struggle

Monday, January 17th, 2005

It’s not easy being an island…

Placing Bitmaps in Illustrator

Friday, January 14th, 2005

Ever want to rough up a web layout or some design in Illustrator but have loads of bitmaps to put in? Do you lose the will to live having to use the ‘file > place’ command?

Just load the image (or web page to get the images from) into Firefox and drag and drop from [...]

Live MacWorld SF 2005 coverage

Tuesday, January 11th, 2005

Well, you eager Mac lovers, welcome to my exclusive coverage of MacWorld SF 2005.

Due to the unprecedented press clampdown I will be drawing storyboards to depict the announcements live. All times are UK GMT.

16:31 So, finally Steve takes to the stage.

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16.35 It looks as if he is going [...]