Computing
Trusteer Rapport for Mac
Trusteer Rapport is a piece of security software to help protect your Mac’s internet browser against key logging and phishing attacks. It is being pushed by a number of large banks including NatWest, ING and First Direct. I’ve previously written about using Trusteer Rapport on a PC , and today I’m putting up some screen shots of what it [...]
Amiga nostalgia – Silica mail order catalogue
If you used to have an Amiga then you’ll probably remember Silica who produced regular mail order catalogues that could take an afternoon to get through. I had an Amiga 600, upgraded to 2mb of RAM, and with an external 200mb hard drive! It was one of those hard drives that was moulded to fit the Amiga 1200, so it didn’t look quite right on the [...]
Zen Internet broadband cancellation
At the end of May I wanted to cancel my broadband from Zen Internet because I was going on a long holiday to Japan. I’d worked out that despite Zen’s activation fee to re-connect, it would still be cheaper to cancel now and re-connect later, rather than keeping the connection while I was away. Cancellation request Zen have always been a [...]
Free Japanese OCR translation
If you have a Japanese document on paper there are plenty of services that will translate it for a price, but it is also possible to get a machine translation done for free. It might not give you a great translation, but it might be good enough for you to at least work out what the document is. There are two stages to translating a document in [...]
Windows 7 on a 2010 MacBook Pro 13 inch
I’m going to review what it is like to use Windows 7 Home Premium on a 2010 MacBook Pro 13 inch. This is one of the 2.4GHz models with 4GB of RAM. Some parts of this review would be applicable for running Windows 7 on any Mac, but other parts may be specific to the 2010 MacBook Pro 13 inch. Installing and setting up Windows 7 I [...]
Installing Japanese WiFi router to share internet connection
Who this is for You are in Japan, you already have a wired broadband internet connection, and you want to share that internet connection between multiple computers, either using network cables, or wirelessly. If you don’t already have a wired internet connection I can’t help you! How to find a router in Japan The technical details [...]
Internet doomsday scenarios
For something we have become so reliant on the internet is worryingly open to attack. From attacks on the physical infrastructure, to the computers connected to it, to the data which is stored in it, I’m going to go through some potential internet doomsday scenarios. Mass deliberate cutting of internet cables The number of computers on the [...]
Protective sleeve for MacBook Pro 13 inch
After buying a 2010 13 inch MacBook Pro, I wanted a protective sleeve to go with it. I bought this one from Amazon. It is a fairly basic one, cheaper than other versions. This is what it looks like with the MacBook inside. If you read the reviews on Amazon you’ll see that someone has commented on the plastic smell. It does certainly [...]
Windows 7 Experience Index scores on MacBook Pro 13 inch from 2010
I was recently asked about the Windows 7 Experience Index scores for the 2010 MacBook Pro 13 inch. This is a aluminium unibody MacBook Pro with a 2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor, 4GB of 1066MHz DDR3 SDRAM, an NVIDIA GeForce 320M graphics chip, and a 250GB 5200 rpm hard drive. I took a measurement of the score shortly after installing [...]
Triple partitioning Mac with OSX and Windows 7
If you are configuring your Apple Macintosh to dual boot with Mac OS X and Windows there is a good guide on Apple’s website. However it doesn’t cover certain issues such as how to set up a third partition that can be read and written to by both Mac and Windows. And it doesn’t give help with how much space should be used for each OS. I [...]
