Steve Freeman

Apple have declared the 12″ G4 PowerBook obsolete. If you can be bothered, you might notice that the document is dated December 2008, but the news has only recently attracted attention, in my case via The Register.

This is something of a blow. Our venerable PowerBooks are still very useful, although my wife’s has lost [...]

The day after Apple announce their new, metal MacBook, the plastic starts chipping off my current white one. Hmmm.

Update It gets worse. Our two 12″ PowerBooks, the machine we really wanted them to refresh, have started failing too. They’re trying to force an upgrade.

Scary security story about personal data not being flushed on iPhones at http://www.zdziarski.com/

A few days ago, I posted a discovery in that personal data remains intact (in deleted portions of the file system) following a full iPhone restore. As it turns out, Apple themselves may not have been aware of this. Thank goodness, otherwise identity [...]

I really like using Apple’s iWork programs Keynote and Pages. They’re cheap, clean, and intuitive to use, and the results usually look nice by default.

The trouble is they’re stored as bundles — directories that OS/X presents as a single file. First, this is confusing when trying to upload a document to a website. [...]