Urgh… the downside of a new iPad is that I now have to put up with the horrible process of getting my music onto it. In the so-called bad old days, I’d sync it to iTunes. It’d take an hour or two and then it’d be done. But that’s not how we do things in… Read more
I’ve been playing Settlers 7 for a few weeks now. I’m on the last campaign level now. It’s immensely frustrating at times because it’ll often crash on launch repeatedly, requiring a restart of the whole computer before it’ll get going. It’ll also crash occasionally when in the game. Nonetheless it is entertaining. It’s been a… Read more
Who delivers an iPad 3 at 2:45 PM on release day? I mean really… And then it takes two hours to sync all my crap to it. Makes it a little awkward to really enjoy that “oooh shiny!” moment. But it’s here, and done, and good to go. It is noticeably heavier than my iPad… Read more
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