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Hardware
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Hardware, Life
Good Working Order
Spotted in Warleigh Road, Brighton, 8:40am, 13th November 2007, shortly after rainstorm:
Accuracy of note debatable.
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Apple, Mac
MacBook Peculiarities [UPDATE: Mystery Solved]
06.21.07 | Permalink | 2 CommentsHere’s a weird one - my friend Scott and I both have MacBooks, bought a couple of months apart. On his laptop, the Apple logo at the left-hand end of the menu bar and the Spotlight icon at the right-hand end are slightly, but noticeably, smaller than on mine.
I’m sure there’s a simple explanation […] -
Apple, Life
Rig Of The Day!
My new bedroom setup just got Rig Of The Day on the Unofficial Apple Weblog!
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Apple
Click, squeak. Click, squeak.
07.26.06 | Permalink | 3 CommentsThat’s the noise my iMac started making yesterday, just before freezing completely and subsequently refusing to boot. It was coming from the hard drive. I took it into GBM for warranty repair this afternoon. I’m fairly sure they’ll have to replace the drive.
Fortunately I’ve not lost too much stuff because I had […] -
Apple, Mac
MacBook can work in lid-closed mode without a mouse and keyboard
06.21.06 | Permalink | 50 CommentsRight, enough of the metablogging, time for some actual content around here.
I got a MacBook a few weeks ago and I’ve been using it connected to my TV with Apple’s mini-DVI to video adapter to watch movies. Having the laptop open next to the TV, with display mirroring turned on (so I can use […] -
Hardware
DVD Writer
I bought myself a Samsung TS-E552 external DVD writer at a computer fair yesterday. It connects to my laptop via USB2 and will write DVD+R and DVD-R at 16x, DVD+RW and DVD-RW at 4x, DVD+R Double Layer at 4x, CD-R at 40x and CD-RW at 32x. It seems to be working fine so […]
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Welcome to the personal website of Jamie Matthews. I am a music obsessive, guitar player, computer programmer, science geek, photographer, Apple fanboy and probably several other things as well.feeds
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