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* [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Thanks Nick!

If you, like me, have thousands of email messages in Apple Mail (on Tiger) and have found over the years it gets a little sluggish, then this handy tool may well fix it.

Vacuum Mail by Leland Scott just plain works. I won’t bore you with the gory technical detail other than it rewrites the [...]