Category Archives: Uncategorized

Just had a rather expensive trip to Maplin to get some educational toys for, er, my children. Got William a Slinky at the checkout. The Beavis (or Butthead) in me is delighted to discover that they are made by the … Continue reading →

Apple are making computers with Intel chips. Dell are dumping Intel, we’re told. Cringely says Google won’t enter the desktop OS market – the margins are too thin, there’s just no money in it, they won’t do it. “Google WON’T … Continue reading →

Okay, so I was obviously doing something wrong – thanks to a kind soul on the Opera forum, I now know that typing /Applications/Opera.app/Contents/MacOS/Opera -kioskmode in the Terminal does indeed launch Opera 8.51 for OS X in kiosk mode. So … Continue reading →

I’m really keen to get a web browser in OS X running in Kiosk Mode – this means full screen, no scroll bars, AND NO MENU BAR. It also means locking down the browser to severely limit its functions, so … Continue reading →

I have to say I utterly despise courgettes (or zucchini, if you prefer). Hard to think of a blander, more watery, useless vegetable. I mean, has anyone ever, in the entire history of civilization, ever had chance to utter or … Continue reading →