Archived posts for January, 2007

Webcam’s for Macs

Saturday, January 20th, 2007

Maccam is a fantastic application (driver) that supports zillions of unsupported, ‘pc’ webcams on OS X.

What does this mean? It means you can buy any of the ‘PC only’ cameras listed on Maccam and use them on your Mac, just like any other webcam.

And you know what, it’s open source too, which means it’s [...]

Know your (font) history!

Monday, January 15th, 2007

I like Trebuchet MS.

It’s clean, attractive and just looks good.

It’s a Microsoft font which ships with Windows, hence it’s also safe to use for web design work.

Unfortunately, Trebuchet MS has a nasty secret.

It was invented by Vincent Connare.

No problem you think, so what?

Vincent Connare also ‘invented’ Comic Sans.

Ug, ouch!

Apples new iPhone

Wednesday, January 10th, 2007

Now that’s what I call a user interface …

MacWorld Revisited

Tuesday, January 9th, 2007

Ok, I’ll keep this short.

That was dull.

AppleTV is quite nice, but let’s face it, with no movies or TV on iTunes in the UK it’s an expensive toy. Especially with Apple’s idea of the exchange rate.

iPhone. Very slick, but no US launch til the summer means no UK launch until 2008/9/10. And, [...]

MacExpo 2007 Predictions

Monday, January 8th, 2007

So tomorrow is MacExpo, and here I am writing up predictions for what’s going to be announced. I really need to get out more, but hell, I like this stuff!

Generally, despite Apple trying to get away from aligning product launches with the event, MacExpo has heavy expections of new kit announcements.

With 2006 being a [...]