The secret to using the new Airport Extreme 802.11n base station seems to be choosing a good channel.
I’ve got 3 802.11n machines on my local network, unfortunately one of them is a US-chipset, which only works on channels 1-11. The ‘n’ draft spec goes up to channel 15(?) so if I set the network to […]

Well folks. We have a widget. Ok, so it’s not exactly groundbreaking. It may not even work. Heck, it doesn’t even have an icon, but hey, it’s a start. So if you want to check it out, download DayBreak here.

Well, I’ve been hunting around for a good Mac Mini on the cheap on ebay for a while… mainly to tinker with, and to get used to running some server environment/apps. If you ask me, once the software gets transparent enough, in The Future every house will have a server/network setup, so I like to […]

Almost a year ago, in a post called “Who Cares About Vista?” I pointed out that the numerous delays, lackluster betas and general lack of competitiveness of Microsoft was putting Apple in a very strong position to, basically, rule the world.
And in that post, I mentioned that the one thing Apple could do was to […]

Well I’ve got the basics of the javascript behind DayBreak working in a webpage. You can check it out here. (Only tested in Safari/Webkit, obviously.)
This will chart a workday (9am-6pm), and highlight the current hour. Marginally handy if you’d like some visual marker on your life slipping away.
Development on Simulacra, the iPhone simulator, has been […]

It seems that Apple has managed to add Multi Touch to their roster of patents. This technology allows multiple, simultanious input to a touch screen, as opposed to using only one finger. The main advantage this provides is multi-finger gesturing, such as “pinching” or “widening” to zoom in or zoom out (among many others).
If they […]

Joel writes about the myriad choices in Vista just to turn it off in the “Start” (ho ho) menu. Moishe Lettvin, a developer on the team who developed this one menu item, goes on to describe a room full of managers and three week intervals between when code was written and when it showed up […]

Will post more later. For now, all you need to know is that nike+iPod = awesomeness. The best £19 you can spend!

Today is a happy day. I finally googled the instructions for how to uninstall IE7 beta 2 from my PC at work.
For those who don’t know, IE7 beta is roughly as useful as Netscape Navigator 1.0. Most things that work ok in IE6 are now broken in IE7. “It’s a beta” I hear you cry. […]

1.) install GnuGPG on your machine. basically just run the installer, fire and forget
click to go and download GnuPG

2.) add the bundle to mail. This installer does it with an applescript
click to go and download GPGMail
Now you have gpg enabled on your machine and Mail supporting it:

new preferences pane
new options in compose window

3.) GPG Keychain […]