My iPad 3 – yes, it’s an iPad 3, get over it – shipped today. From Ontario – the Californian variant, apparently, not the Canadian one. Which means it’s only a few hours drive away. Yet it’s on hold ’til the 16th for delivery. Damnit! So close! The security at a Fedex distribution centre can’t… Read more
I was quite excited, after install iTunes 10.6, to see that a fair few of my TV shows show up as being available for “re-download”. Silly me for assuming that meant they were available in 1080p as promised. Some are. Most aren’t. iTunes happily downloads them again, with no way for me to tell ahead… Read more
It’s been many years since I noted down my 25 most played songs (in iTunes, anyway). The list has an immense amount of inertia behind it, so there’s now things in that I typically skip, but enough has changed since the last posting that I think it has meaning. Also, I really don’t trust my… Read more
Got my iPad 2 today. :D :D :D :D :D :D It’s so shiny! And thin! My old iPad is already bitching and moaning about being “replaced” and “detritus” and “nobody would even care if I just blew up my own motherboard” or whatever. Of course, superficially it’s not hugely different – it’s way thinner,… Read more
Just let Skype auto-update itself to version 5. W..T..F.. the new UI is slick enough, yes, but it’s bloody huge. The smallest window size is far from small. It’s so bloody big I have to keep it closed by default. While the prior versions weren’t pretty nor fast, they were functional and sufficiently minimal. This… Read more
Today I bought a pair of skis from some random woman at Google. They’re probably hers, and are a fair bit shorter than I’d probably take generally, but I was pleasantly surprised when I got home to discover that they really aren’t that much shorter than my existing ski. They’re also in good condition, seem… Read more
To compound the issue, my iPad become utterly full once more today, to the point where it refused to even transfer purchases back to my iMac, let alone sync. Le sigh. After turning down the sync period for my work account, from a month to just three days, it now claims it recovered 1.8 GiB… Read more