tech

This iPod mini sock is just soooo cool. Gives me the warm and fuzzies to think that someone's taken Mum's knitting pattern and adapted it for themselves.

Just installed a Bitty Browser in my right-hand sidebar there, picking up all Furled items tagged with 'digital rights'. Scott Matthews showed me Bitty Browser a while back, and I meant to blog it then, but now he's tidied it up a bit and added some extra features and that makes it even more bloggable. [...]

I have to admit, I like the look of Apple's new Mighty Mouse: Innovative Scroll Ball and Button Perfectly positioned to roll smoothly under just one finger, Mighty Mouse's Scroll Ball offers full 360-degree scrolling capability — up/down, left/right and diagonally. You can scroll long web pages, pan full-size images, maneuver around large spreadsheets, control [...]

I used to run UControl on my PowerBook, which allowed me to both switch my USB mouse to left-handed and remap the Mac's fn-delete (i.e. delete the character to the right of the cursor) to shift-delete. UControl doesn't work in Tiger, and I can't find a way to remap fn-delete to shift-delete. I know I [...]

I've been checking the iBook's status in Apple's order tracker, not because I had any faith that it would give me any information at all, but because I suffer from a terrible, crippling disease called 'blind optimism'. Thus was I suitably, and squeakily, surprised to discover that my iBook is allegedly now in Southampton and [...]

Apple suck. Macs are great, but Apple suck arse. They suck so hard they blow. Had I known that it would take 20 days to get my new iBook after ordering from their online store, I would have walked to London and got it there. It would have been faster. Hell, for £2 I could [...]