The blog of Doug

Lots of talk on t'internet about apples iPhone, for me version 2 might be interesting a few too many handicaps with it for my taste at the moment. Looks cool though, major downfall looks like you have to use 2 hands to use it. Doesn't sound like a big deal but see how you use your phone next time you pick it up. Anyway the nice guy at Will it blend? had a go at an iPhone and here are the results.... Da da du da du dahh.... Nice :o)

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Just found a very handy Nokia utility for my iMac. It allows me to transfer images and music from my n95 magically from iTunes and iPhoto. Very cool little app which can be found on the nokia site under Nokia Media Transfer I would advise all you Mac loving Nokia weilding geeks out there to go get some of the action, so much nicer than the PC Suite I have to use to talk to the phone under windows.

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Well it's been a couple of weeks now and I'm loving my iMac. I even popped in to the cult of the Mac central this morning (the Apple store on Regent Street). It's an interesting shopping experience, lots of mac types milling about with laptops open, a photoshop lesson going on in the corner and more 30" (£1500) monitors floating about than you can shake a stick at. More an experience than a shop, not sure how easy it would be to buy one there anyway. Right back to the iMac, so far I have done all my recent blog posts on it (ok so I've been side tracked quite a lot), managed to get Cold Fusion and Eclipse working on it along with Flash and all the tools I use day to day. The nice thing is that a bunch of the things I used to need extra software for are just there on the iMac. Wnat to do a screen capture then Grab is right there, bit of text on an image; Core Image Fun House should do it. Looking for something on the disk, Spotlight is really very good (be nice if it would show where things are on the disk in some easy way). So apart from a few problems like getting a logitech 5000 bluetooth PC keyboard working (i blame logitech #!*@ers) and clicking in a windows manner here and there I can say it's been a great experience so far. Loads of great free software to sort out any problem you can think of and oodles of help on t'internet for those niggly little things. Huzzah for the Mac it's put a bit of fun back into computing for me, which is nice :)

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Ok my first blog entry on an iMac. More specifically my own! Yayyy Just took it out of the box, plugged it in and hey presto it all just worked. Very neat box too. So a million out of 10 for making it easy for the user so far, nice one apple.

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Just waiting for my shiny iMac to turn up.

Yup I have taken the plunge after many years of fancying one and the postman should come a knocking anytime soon.

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