December 3, 2008 at 11:04 pm · Filed under Apple, Software

After being pointed in the right direction by x5315, who suggested I remove my location bar to save on display space (not so important on my external display, but more useful on my actual MacBook display), I have now also removed my bookmark bar, and intend to learn the shortcut keys for them (cmd+# where # is position number of the bookmark). I must say I’m enjoying the minimalism, and being made to use keyboard shortcuts is speeding up my browsing. Though sometimes the location bar decides to stick on, haven’t worked out why but I’m keeping an eye on it (a simple cmd+shift+\ gets rid of it again).

Read more about how to do this yourself on macfanboy.co.uk

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October 15, 2008 at 11:32 am · Filed under Apple

Everyone else is writing about them, so I thought I would too.

As I’m sure you all know, Apple have released design and hardware refreshes of the MacBook, MacBook Pro, and MacBook Air lines. Most of the design refresh is actually behind the scenes – they have changed to a new manufacturing process that involves taking a slab (or ‘brick’) of aluminum and carving out the body of the laptop, causing it to be made out of one piece (more or less). This improves strength and makes it lighter. They’ve also added some new nVidia chips across the board, improving the graphics somewhat. They’ve also added a bunch of glass; a multitouch glass trackpad which has no button – it’s all a button, and a glass front to the new LED full-colour screens.

Nothing surprising there then, there were so many rumours about all this, and the later ones got it all right. They all look pretty nice, nothing ground breaking though. Elysium is pleased because she plans to get a MacBook for university next year, and it looks like this design will be the design she gets.

Finally, don’t you think Jony Ive is the next Steve Jobs? Just look at the MacBook video.

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September 15, 2008 at 1:07 am · Filed under Apple

I am now a proud owner of a black 8GB iPhone 3G. I’ve been using it for a few days, and so decided to give my first impressions.

I was spurred on to get an iPhone 3G as an upgrade from my Nokia N73 after being exposed to the RDF by x5315 – in the form of his iPhone 2G and Apple’s conference about the iPhone 3G. Also, I was kinda bored with Nokia’s offerings; don’t get me wrong, I loved my N73, but they seem to do the same thing all the time, and I wanted a decent Internet platform – because all my previous phones weren’t that great for browsing the Internet etc. and were also on contracts with no inclusive browsing. I found myself often thinking ‘if only I had the Internet on my phone’ when I wanted to randomly look something up, or for something to do on a train, or to check my email on the move. I also really didn’t like the offerings from HTC, my Dad recently got a TyTyn II and I didn’t like the user environment at all. I needed something that worked really well as a phone (particularly for texting), as well as a great Internet platform. Read the rest of this entry »

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