Predictions for Macworld Expo tomorrow in San Francisco

I reckon:

Apple will introduce movie rentals via iTunes, tied in with apple TV
Apple will preview (for launch later this year) a new appleTV with Tivo like functionality, and an inbuilt TV tuner (US only for time being no doubt).
Apple will introduce a sub-notebook
Apple will preview the iPhone SDK
Apple will announce support for Blu-Ray (as they [...]

Leopard and FileVault won’t work well with Timemachine

I hadn’t posted recently to the techblog, so thought I would post my thoughts on using Filevault with Time Machine after hearing a colleague’s frustrations with Time Machine.
In short - Time Machine is suitable for consumers, and Filevault good for businesses, and if you want to use both you are in trouble. Using an encrypted [...]

Time Machine

Excellent write up of the technology behind Leopard’s (Apples new OS X released 26 Oct) new Time Machine. The description of soft and hard links I find particularly interesting!

Optimising Wordpress themes for iPhone and mobile applications

Update - 7th Nov 2007: see note
Having recently read Apple’s iPhone HCI guidelines for designing iPhone content, I wanted to see whether I could tweak my blog so that it read better on the iPhone, and once that has been done work up a look and feel for mobile devices in general for alpower.com. What [...]

Creative Zen Vision W on a Mac!

Just preparing for a trip, and wanted to transfer some files to my Creative Zen vision W, and up until now have been unable to due to Creative’s lame support for all things Mac. stumbled acrosss the XNJB project and downloaded their tool, and it all works a treat!