Recently I tried to empty the trash on my Mac only to be continuously prompted with "cannot delete, file is locked". I found the guilty party was Windows Media Player (because the best place for that on a Mac is the trash - use VLC instead!). It didn't really matter what the file was, I couldn't remove [...]

I was just browsing the Apple store when suddenly I got kicked out - "they're busy updating and come back soon". New products coming?!...iLife '07? iPhone...we'll see...

Being a bit of a Mac fan, I casually mentioned to my wife the upcoming (and generally eagerly awaited) Macworld conference. I then went on to mention that I'll be buying Leopard when it comes out. Julie's response: Didn't you buy it last year? Me: No, that was Tiger. Julie: How many big cats are there? Good point!

Following my accident a couple of weeks ago, I've now been blessed with a new MacBook Pro which needs setting up again. So, I thought I'd document setting up MySQL, PHP5 and Apache with multiple virtual hosts.

Following on from my accident, I chased and chased last Thursday to find out whether the AA would cover the laptop. They had no record of in their policy, and Julie was certain she asked for it. So they were pulling out the original call recording taken when Julie placed the order.

It's a sad day in the Sharp / Mac camp today. Julie has been driving me to the station each morning since we moved (I'll post about that when I've got the Internet back) - but this morning she had a day off, and rightly I would be walking to the station. After doing my morning [...]

Every I know has compiled a list of some sort, top 10 films, top 10 girlfriends, top 10 top 10s. Here's my top 10. The Mac apps that are absolute essentials to the daily running of my Mac a little review of each app. To offer some context, I'm a web programmer dabbling in [...]