Everyone's doing it…

…so I may as well join in, and post an opinion of the iPad before I’ve seen or touched it.

Apple Customer Experience Could Use Some Work

My preceding post documents my problems buying a MacBook Pro from the online Apple Store UK. I find it rather confusing that this was allowed to happen.

The MacBook Pro Saga

For the impatient, Bish (a chap at work), has helpfully provided the following edited form of the saga:

“So basically: you ordered a MacBook Pro from Apple, and they’re going to deliver it.”

The rest of you can read on.

Podcast episode 3 stuff

I promised to write about some bugs in Apple’s iPhone security sample application. The ones I noticed are in this file, in the routine getHashBytes:.

Stealing usability from Apple

Apple’s OS X, which I use for most things at home, has a cool feature on its ‘dashboard’ which allows a webpage or fragment thereof to be displayed as a ‘widget’.  Ubuntu comes with a similar ‘dashboard’ thing; Compiz fusion knows it as ‘Widget Later’.  I was unable to find a web-viewing widget installed with [...]