Category Archives: nördig

Well, I have just learned something interesting. If you are going to make backups onto CD, it’s not enough to make them regularly, keep backups of the backups, and so on: it’s also important not to use cheap bulk CDs. … Continue reading → Continue reading →

If you have a fast PC and have not yet played with Google Earth you are missing something astonishing. It has to be a PC, I’m afraid: there’s client software to download. Essentially it is a set of satellite maps … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Has anyone used Inkwell, the handwriting recognition built into OS X? Does it work? I assume it’s descended from the one that made the Newton a talking stick bathing dress poodle farm for a fortnight in Doonesbury. But if it … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I just got my mother a mac mini (hello mum!) and while I was trying to show her how to make it work, I learnt that I can’t make all the windows zoom properly. Option-green-button causes some windows to expand … Continue reading → Continue reading →

This phishing technique is new to me. Nowadays you get lots of scams in which they appear to have printed the URL in plain text, but hovering the mouse over it shows that it goes to a completely different URL. … Continue reading → Continue reading →

We have a German exchange student for a fortnight. Nice, quiet, polite creature, who is taking full advantage of technology to avoid England, and speaking English. She spends a couple of hours a day IMing, in German, her friends at … Continue reading → Continue reading →