Archive for the ‘Software’ Category

Epub support in Pages

Great news!
Now that Apple has adopted epub as it’s format for iBooks (this is not new news, but I’ve only just noticed it), Pages can export to this.
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An old Windows friend on the Mac

I’d heard this was coming, but I still a little surprised when, I discovered that SecureCRT had been released for the Mac
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Online backups

Arrgghh!
I’ve mentioned before that I am paranoid about backing up my data.
I have at least 4 copies of all of my important data and at any one time 2 of those copies are offsite (i.e not in my flat). One of these off site backups is done through a client to Amazons S3 service.
This is where I had a few problems lately…
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iOS 4

Yes, of course I’ve updated to iOS 4!
So what do I think of it, now that I’ve had a few days to play with it?
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My new folder layout

I’ve mentioned that I’m a digital hoarder in the past. As a result, I have a lot of files in my documents directory.
I’ve never really worried to much about keeping all of the files in here arranged, but recently that has changed.
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Updates and Buses!?

Software updates are, almost, like buses it seems.
What I am talking about?
Well in the UK at least it is a common saying that you wait for ages for a bus then 3 turn up at once. And in the last few days there have been big updates released for 2 of my most used apps.
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Twitter clients

The very day before I decide to post about my long quest for the perfect twitter client, we have major, maybe even seismic upheavals in the twitter-verse!
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iPad mania

Okay here we go again
I feel like we have been here before, somehow…
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Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 9 embraces – yes – HTML5

Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 9 embraces – yes – HTML5: “

Browser preview powers web standards with GPU

Microsoft is focusing on performance and HTML 5 standards support in Internet Explorer 9, the next version of its web browser.…

(Via The Register.)

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Microsoft cuts out paste

Microsoft cuts out paste:

Anything Apple can do…

Windows Phone 7 Series won’t be able to cut and paste, as Microsoft continues to create something with all the limitations of the iPhone and little of the charm…

(Via The Register.)

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