tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-91887772011-04-21T19:04:16.601+01:00News and views about Apple Computer and developments in Cupertino from a long-time user and admirer, weighted towards my personal experiences as they affect my setup.Grumps (aka Jimbo)http://www.blogger.com/profile/00597445135331368886noreply@blogger.comBlogger71100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9188777.post-1109491747300904502005-02-27T08:10:00.000Z2005-02-27T08:12:51.063Z

It's been an inexcusably long time since I posted anything here. Admittedly, my main weblog has been kept busy, while neglect here can be explained by the fact that my Blogger efforts were always intended as experimental at best, as research for weblog recommendations for friends. But still …It's been a busy time on the Mac front since Macworld San Francisco. Not only did we get the iPod Shuffle

Grumps (aka Jimbo)http://www.blogger.com/profile/00597445135331368886noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9188777.post-1105273909079648502005-01-09T06:45:00.000Z2005-02-27T08:12:08.400Z

Well, just a couple of days to go until we find out what's in store for us from Apple. Allowing for time difference, I'll be tuning in for the webcast from San Francisco around 5.00 pm here in Dublin.As usual, I'm looking forward to watching Steve Jobs in action. This time round, though, it seems as if some of his thunder has already been stolen. Judging by the reports of Apple's suing various

Grumps (aka Jimbo)http://www.blogger.com/profile/00597445135331368886noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9188777.post-1101501757380073512004-11-26T20:35:00.000Z2004-11-29T09:20:33.930Z

I've already gone into this in some details over at Jim's Rants, but it's worth saying a few words here too. My CD collection database which I set up in AppleWorks is sadly out of date, and recent purchases gave me the necessary impetus to bring it into line. I first had to tidy things up cosmetically due to formatting not carrying over correctly from the DB's original home on my original

Grumps (aka Jimbo)http://www.blogger.com/profile/00597445135331368886noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9188777.post-1100698341552177962004-11-17T13:18:00.000Z2004-11-17T14:10:48.570Z

Either AirPort 4.1 or AirPort Express 6.1 sorted out an annoying problem. Jim's Rants, my principal weblog, is hosted on my iMac here at home. When connected to my ADSL modem by cable to the Ethernet port I access the weblog using the public URL — fine; no problem. But, until I installed yesterday's updates, I had to manually assign an IP address to the iMac and use that in the URL in order to

Grumps (aka Jimbo)http://www.blogger.com/profile/00597445135331368886noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9188777.post-1100634283242416162004-11-16T19:29:00.000Z2004-11-17T13:35:30.886Z

Apple today released AirPort 4.1, available through Software Update. What’s new in AirPort 4.1: - Supports Keyspan Express Remote for use with AirTunes (AirPort Express only) - Support for WPA security on WDS networks - Ability to rename a USB printer connected to a base station Also available is AirPort Express Firmware Update 6.1. The list of changes/improvements is very long in this case,

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Having set up this second weblog and viewed my first entry, I noticed something strange happening on the left-hand edge of the content area. Rather than continuing down cleanly past the lowest post and right on down to the bottom of the screen, there seems to be a 1(?)-pixel inward notch. I wonder what's causing this? Time to dig into the CSS, perhaps? Returning after adding another, rather

Grumps (aka Jimbo)http://www.blogger.com/profile/00597445135331368886noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9188777.post-1100624164769252222004-11-16T16:53:00.000Z2004-11-16T17:00:42.006Z

So, I wondered about this 'Create a blog' button which shows up on my home page on blogger.com. Ideally I'd like to see something equivalent to the Categories which are so easily handled by pMachine, but then I thought that maybe setting up individual blogs and linking to them in the sidebar would work out similarly. Right now I'm not at all sure how to go about this, so it's off to the Help

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