This might be handy for anyone who experiences what I’ve just been through.

My iTunes library is stored on a shared disk (networked via an Airport Extreme base station) which works nicely.

However, after trying to import a troublesome CD my machine refused to play any music purchased through iTunes Music Store and then, to cap it [...]

... where have you been all my life

Rita is quite an amazingly innovative (really!) illustration/drawing application for Mac OS X. It’s also the work of one guy, Niklas Frykholm, who appears to be sickeningly talented!

It’s incredibly easy to use, has loads of funky drawing tools (hatching, highlights, freehand shapes and ovals), several mad drawing tools [...]

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 [...]

Now that’s what I call a user interface …

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, [...]

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 [...]