Archived posts for May, 2007

Fucking Fucking Fucking Adobe CS3

Friday, May 18th, 2007

I tried to remain calm and impartial but really …

Not only is the fucking CS3 suite preposterously fucking expensive and fucking massive and takes a fucking eon to install and fails to fucking work if you have demo versions of CS3 apps installed which means you have to install the whole fucking thing from scratch* [...]

iTunes DRM Lock In Myth

Wednesday, May 16th, 2007

I had this tired argument the other day with yet another person who bought some crap 3rd rate MP3 player which doesn’t work with iTunes etc.

So for the record here’s how it works:

Apple’s iTunes store/DRM is not a lock in.
It is both optional: users are not tied to subscriptions plans and can use [...]

Web stuff: acronyms and geek speak, accessibility and usability

Tuesday, May 8th, 2007

The BBC often report some good stuff on technology and web sites. As web design is my line of ‘work’, what follows is some comment on a bunch of reports I’ve been meaning to post for a while now.

“According to research from Nielsen/NetRatings, people are buying cutting-edge technology but often don’t understand the terms [...]

Mac Basics: force quit an application

Tuesday, May 1st, 2007

I have been asked this a number of times recently and thought it was worth putting in here.

There are two simple ways to quit a non-responsive application from the desktop.

1 Press the ‘Cmd-Alt-Esc’ keys to pop up the ‘force quit’ window. From here you can choose an application to force quit. Very unhappy [...]