Tech
Subjects I’m passionate about include code, good web design, Net neutrality, and avoiding government interference in the Internet. I write a lot about Apple-related stuff, blogging techniques and trends in social networks.Backing up a Mac to Amazon S3 with Arq: the easiest, safest and most accurate solution
Using Amazon S3, in combination with Arq, provides a much more reliable alternative to backup and restore from a Mac.
Read the articleBlogging sequentially using Writeroom, TextMate and ecto or MarsEdit
In this post we will be looking at ways to get TextMate, MarsEdit or ecto and WriteRoom to work seamlessly together so that you can concentrate on each stage of producing a blog post without being distracted and automate most of the coding and uploading processes.
Read the articleConnecting WordPress, Lightroom and Apple Photos
How I integrate Apple Photos, Lightroom and WordPress by building on Lightroom's by sychronising the cloud-based Lightroom CC and the desktop-oriented Lightroom Classic CC and Meow Apps's WP/LR Sync plugin for WordPress.
Read the articleDid you even know Facebook has unilaterally decided to share all your data with anyone it pleases?
A change in policy announced last week allows Facebook to share all your date with anyone they pleases, though it's still possible to opt out of this
Read the articleGoogle's Google Fi revolution
Google's Project Fi is an economical and powerful mobile phone plan for anyone who travels internationally
Read the articleHow I effortlessly draft and maintain squeaky-clean CSS with SASS and Compass.app
How I effortlessly draft and maintain squeaky-clean CSS with SASS and Compass.app
Read the articleImprove your WordPress blog with MarsEdit, Amazon Cloudfront and Markdown
How I use MarsEdit for editing posts on my desktop, in combination with WriteRoom and TextMate. I explain how I've started using Amazon Cloudfront to store my images
Read the articleiTunes and Steve Jobs’s walled garden: a major strategic blunder for Apple
iTunes and Steve Jobs’s walled garden: a major strategic blunder for Apple: If Apple persists in its strategy of pretending the cloud doesn’t exist, it could end on the path as Microsoft when it turned its back on the Internet in the 1990s
Read the articlePreparing this site for the 2020s
The new design for this site is called Gramercy: I have used a framework for the design and simplified the content, with the biggest change being the merging of the Home page and the About page
Read the articleReeder for Mac: a stunning implementation of minimalism, elegant design and practicality in one RSS client
Reeder for Mac is a stunning implementation of minimalism, elegant design and practicality in one RSS client, achieved despite the quirks and general unreliability of the Google Reader API
Read the articleReorganising this blog
The time has come to consolidate all the posts I’ve written since 2005 in a variety of guises, in one language and one site.
Read the articleSocial networking: going towards an oligopolistic closed-shop system?
Social networking has matured. Three years ago, a vast number of start-ups were competing in the field, and few people other than geeks actually bothered to use them. Today the sector is much more concentrated
Read the articleSparrow Mail: the most elegant, powerful and minimalist Mac email client
Sparrow Mail, a new email client launches today on the Mac App Store. Designed with incredible attention to detail, it offers an uncluttered yet fantastically powerful and flexible interface
Read the articleSwitching from a (dv) to a (ve) server on Media Temple
After completing the switch to html5, switching from .net to .com, accompanied by a new design, I wanted to update my server configuration, which hadn’t changed for three years.
Read the articleThe new MacBook Air: with its first-rate GPU and SSD, its real-life performance belies the paper specs
The new MacBook Air's superior GPU and SSD drive give it snappier performance than other machines in the range with better stats
Read the articleWhat’s ‘open’ anyway? Walled gardens will never stifle innovation and shouldn’t be confused with Net neutrality
Walled gardens will never stifle innovation and shouldn’t be confused with Net neutrality: few IT companies have shown growth without resorting to economic models perceived as ‘closed’
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