Today MS have released Silverlight 2.0 out of beta. Great news for me as I can now get it rolled out at work and get people trying out things like PhotoSynth and DeepZoom (we can’t really deploy betas!). I’m really looking forward to seeing how people might use them. The installation is here and is […]
Tag archives: Apple
iPhone Second impressions
A few weeks ago I posted up a few initial thoughts about my iPhone 3G. Without reading back through the post, I think it’s fair to say that my opinions were mixed. Although I loved the device itself, the silly battery life made it hard to use as a day to day phone. Now I’ve […]
iPhone 2.1 Firmware
As promised Apple released v2.1 of the iPhone firmware yesterday. I’ve upgraded mine, and so far so good. I can’t say it’s ground breaking but it doesn’t seem to have made things any worse :) The published updates are: • Decrease in call set-up failures and dropped calls • Significantly better battery life for most […]
Securing Mac OSX
I’ve not had a chance to read through this in detail yet, but I was just sent a white paper from Corsaire about the security built into OSX (10.4 and 10.5) and some hardening guidelines. At first glance it looks like a good doc and might be worth a read. Securing Mac OS X Leopard […]
First impressions of an iPhone newbie
After a few weeks waiting, O2 finally shipped an iPhone 3G to me on Tuesday, so I’ve spent a good few hours fiddling with it over the past few days. I thought I’d post up a few thoughts, really for my own benefit in keening some notes. Compared to the Windows Mobile phones I’m used […]