Archive for the ‘Mac’ Category

Pixels of Doom!

About November last year I developed the afflication that all LCDs owners fear.
Dead pixels.
But not just one. Or two. Rather, I developed a cluster below the screen centre. In my darker moments I wondered if, like the black hole it resembled, it would slowly eat up my monitor, before sucking in my phone, tea, desk, [...]

Keyboard Woes

Like many programmers, I’m very picky about my input devices. Particularly about keyboards – both at home and work I use a Microsoft Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000. Despite the overly lengthy name, it’s a superb piece of kit and I wouldn’t work without it.
Apple, however, don’t believe in locales outside the US. And so the [...]