Got my New iMac!

I have got my new iMac, you can see the picture below.

Yeah in the picture it does seem pretty dark, but trust me it’s just the screen is that bright, I came into the room yesterday, after just getting up, woke up the Mac & straight away had to turn down the brightness of the screen, it was duller outside, at least I could look out the window with out hurting my eyes! 

My Keyboard

 jWithin the first week I had boxed it all up and up showing my new toy to my brother-in-law, taking the keyboard out of the box, look what I managed to do, not good,

While I was up in the Apple Store, Victoria Square, I asked about it and the Genius said next time I was coming up to bring it with me, and they would have a look at it for me, I just hope they are able to do something with it, it would save me £56 on a new keyboard, but if they aren’t able to fix it, it still works, I’ll not replace the keyboard until it stops working.

Not that much I can say just “It Works”, Yeah I know, that is what everyone else says as well but it is so true, straight out of the box, no software you have to uninstall that comes preinstalled from the manufacture, just unpack it set it up & away you go!l  Within 10 minutes you can be online, I love Mac and I think I have my wife converted over to mac as she wants a Mac Mini for the Living room so she can hook it up to our 42″ LG TV with a HDMI cable, sounds pretty sweet to me!

 

Hugh

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Testing Out AudioBoo

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Word Of Warning – Non-Apple Chargers

Last week or the week before, my Wife was on Amazon.co.uk, she had seen Charger for my iPod Touch, the type of charger that plugs into the wall. You know the type, right?

Now me being me, I started to look at the reviews and on this first one, the reviews were really really bad, so I, myself, started to look at other chargers, I had seen one, with good reviews, so I thought I’ll try it and see how it goes.

Delivery

The Charger I had picked out got delivered to our house in under a week as it with most things from Amazon.

Took it out of the packaging, had the CE Mark, so I thought it must be OK if that is on it!  Boy, was I wrong! Plugged it in, seemed OK, unplugged it and put it on a shelf.

Few days later came back to it, I wanted to charge it downstairs as I was watching a program. Went into our kitchen to get a buscuit for my coffee which I just made and as I walked back into the Living Room, I seen a really bright light & within a split second I heard a quite loud bang.

Went over to the iPod Touch and checked to see if it was or wasn’t alright, of course, my luck being what it is, it wasn’t, the charger had went bang & took my iPod Touch with it.  So, no more iPod Touch for me for a while.

The moral of the story is, DON’T BE BUYING NON-APPLE CHARGERS, my advise is stick to Apple Chargers I.E. Apple Supplied Chargers

Hugh

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HTML5 Video for iPad

Not long ago I seen a tweet by Ed Dale, here is the link, It was how Trey Smith got HTML5 working on an iPad, I have been able to do this also!

Here how I have done my set up, I saw a tweet (sorry can’t remeber who it was), but it was along the lines that LongTail Video, had an Beta version of they’re really nice Flash Player, JW Player, I was on the home page on LongTail Video, and I seen this link to a service called Bits On The Run & I thought, nice service, I think I’ll give the free trail a go and see what it was like, it was only when I was on the inside, I saw the video you upload to the service was in H.264, which if you don’t know already, is the recommended format for HD Video playback on the web.

BINGO! Continue reading

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