June 25, 2006
Right, here's the thing. I bought my G5 iMac nearly two years ago now and I've been overall very happy with it, but lately there's one thing which has been really beginning to bother me. The damn fan. It's a revision A iMac (the one's with the dodgy fans), so it's a well documented problem which can't be fixed. The problem is, it's been getting much worse over this past year—it's screaming loud right now—and to be honest, it's getting to point when it's even audible over music at full volume.
Well, I've gone and done it. Ordered my new 20" Intel iMac yesterday. After the heat of last week, coupled with the fact I needed to do quite a lot of intensive processor work on the machine, the fan noise was pretty much unbearable. Called Apple, they said it was 'within accepted limits'. I guess if you're only surfing the web and reading email, this might be the case. The new machine should be here on Wednesday. Can't wait.
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October 13, 2005
No real surprises with Apple's latest product releases. A video iPod, an updated iTunes (selling video no less) and an updated iMac (featuring integrated iSight). Perhaps the most interesting product in all of this is the iMac's new Remote and the application called Front Row.
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October 06, 2005
That is the question.
I bought my iMac G5 almost a year ago and according to Apple's nice serial number tester thing (which now sports a nice bit of AJAX) I have exactly 19 days in which to buy Applecare if I want it.
So, do I?
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May 05, 2005
Oh the pain of it all. Not only did I have a bit of a mare trying to order this operating system, but now after installing it’s bust my wireless connection.
Apparently I’m not the only one with this problem though. I have an iMac G5 connecting to a Netgear wireless router and Tiger just refuses to play ball with the DHCP, the Airport keeps assigning itself an IP address.
It works fine through Ethernet though - I guess I’ll have to wait for a fix.
Grrrr
Update:
Well, after being up for a long time last night, leaving the FW drive to run on TechTool to try and recover some data I get to it this morning at 7am and it’s totally screwed - B-Tree’s knackered, can’t mount, can’t be fixed, can’t recover any data. Had to wipe it.
That means i’ve lost a bunch of stuff, but most importantly a book I was designing for our wedding photographs. Ouch. The bruising I’ve received from kicking myself will now be aggrevated by the kicking my Wife’s going to give me!
Luckily I backed stuff up to DVD in December, all other work since then has been documentation which has been emailed. Thankfully, I have everything saved in my sent items - thank the lord for IMAP!
May 03, 2005
I like Amazon. Honestly I do, it’s just sometimes they really screw things up. I’ve had Tiger on pre-order for what seems like weeks now. Then, a day before the launch I was expecting it to be shipped.
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December 17, 2004
Apple iPhone prediction confirmed.
I didn’t think it would be long before this was confirmed. Personally i’m sold already and I haven’t even seen it! I’m such an Apple whore.
Targeting Small Screens - Stopdesign
Doug’s back with a great writeup on targeting small screens for your designs.
WDW2004 keynotes available as video
Speakers include: Jeffrey Zeldman, Jason Fried, Ethan Marcotte & Molly Holzschlag
On another note. The migration to Expression Engine is going well although still quite a lot to do with the design. Some of the portfolio may have to be redesigned again due to EE not being able to do some of the conditional logic I want it to. Never mind, there’s always a different approach.
November 16, 2004
Apple opens it’s new store tomorrow Sat 20th Nov on Regent Street in the heart of London. This is one of the downside’s of not living in London, you can’t just pop down to see what it’s all about. The store looks good and there’s some cool opening day offers (such as the Lucky Bag).
Update: See title. Oops.
Update 19th November: Silly people camping outside the shop!
October 12, 2004
Mark recounts his experiences of buying, opening and starting a new 1.8GHz G5 iMac. For those who are interested…
As promised here’s the story so far with the new iMac. As mentioned in a previous post it all started with a phone call from the Apple centre in Cardiff telling me new iMac had come in five days early.
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I'm a graphic designer from near Cardiff in the UK. I've been a designer for over ten years now and primarily work on the web. I'm still partial to a bit of print every now and then though. I used to work for 