Troubleshooting a Broadband connection

I’ve been having a few issues with my broadband since the weekend…thought it might be good to share what troubleshooting I did with one of the other forum members at my ISP: http://helpforum.sky.com/t5/Sky-Broadband-Speed/Broadband-slow-speed/td-p/329231 Most of the information in there is not Sky specific. Thanks to Snadge+100 for the help

iPhone to wifi iPad iMessaging….

My son has been off school today and I lent him my iPad thinking I’ll be able to stay in touch with him using iMessage. Just to clarify, both my wifi iPad2 and my iPhone are registered to the same account. First couple of messages got backwards and forwards, but after that silence. And when… Read More »

Mac Desktop Icons and Drives

I can be a bit stuck in my ways. Making the transition from (old) Windows to Mac I still wanted to keep my most commonly used icons on the desktop (even though I have learned to use the dock too). I also like to keep them a certain size. It’s no good having them to… Read More »

Category: Mac

Full refresh of website page on Mac Chrome.

One last one for the evening, I use my Mac on the move and through 3g services on my internet dongle. Some ISPs compress images to preserve network bandwidth (t-mobile, I’m looking at you). What I wanted to do was do a complete refresh of all the image content on a page when I got… Read More »

Powershell nuggets

Just to prove I’m not just an Apple fanboy, here are some great videos for learning Microsoft’s Powershell scripting language. Search YouTube for concentratedDon and gotcha Powershell. Or follow the link I’ll be adding that to my list of things to read and watch. Thanks to Scriptimus for that one.

Free Apple developer books….

Just spotted this out there on the net, you can get all of these as PDFs, but Apple have but them in the native iBook format for free. The titles are: Cocoa Fundamentals Guide The Objective-C Programming Language IOS Application Programming Guide Object Orientated Programming with Objective-C IOS Technology Overview IOS Human Interface Guidelines Little… Read More »