Just a short one, but it seems that since Lion came out, the one key difference is literally, the key to everything is ALT. I’m constantly finding little things that change and switch when you hit the ALT key on menus and key presses. One example would be, instead of APPLE+I to get info on a file, you can “SHOW INSPECTOR” which actually gives you a get info that changes when you click on different files, rather than opening on a per file basis. This might be normal but it seems people are struggling to find all of these features. There’s plenty of upset people who can’t find the user library for example, but again, it’s not far away. ALT in the GO menu gives you that option.

I must admit that after installing Lion I found the finder to be a bit annoying and have been trying out alternatives. I’m currently on TotalFinder, which has some nice things like tabs and 2-up displays, but this seems to all go wrong when APPLE+TAB over from a full screen app to another. Probably because I have it set to ‘visor mode’ where it lives hidden like the dock, so as the screen animates sideways to the next virtual desktop, so does the finder pop up. It would be better if it could live over the fullscreen app but never mind..

I think everyone has covered Mission Control being a bit of a pain, I can’t say it’s improved productivity at all, although I’m quite liking the gestures to initiate it.. maybe it’ll take some getting used to to feel as good as exposé. Shame its a complete mess on a dual screen setup. That seems to be another big general complaint. It’s like multi monitor support wasn’t considered at all.. I have 2 large screens and I’m pretty much stuck with the option of fullscreen or 2 screens. It wouldn’t be such a problem if the point was to maximise screen space for tiny screens, because there I’m sure it’s the perfect solution, but when you’re rocking a 27″ & 30″ together it just seems broken. On the upside, I don’t miss the extra few pixels that full screen buys me so can just have things stretched to the screen size. Seems like a bit of a waste of something that should be really cool. What really seems broken is that you can arrange things on one screen but have no interaction with those on another. I sometimes turn off the 30″ and use the 27″ iMac as the main display. Previously I could exposé out and see all of the open windows on BOTH displays on the primary, which basically gave me a second monitor to hide stuff that I wasn’t using right then. Now there doesn’t seem to be a way to drag windows between the two displays. You have a display that goes blank when you’ve got a full screen app, but you can exposé/mission control out of it to get programs open on the second display like before. No help putting a window aside to the second screen and grabbing it when you want.

Also if you try to take a window from screen one and put it either on screen 2 or into a virtual desktop on screen 2, it just bounces back to it’s original place. Does not work..

I do need to get a touchpad now though, I’m finding the mouse wholly inadequate. Moving from laptop to desktop, it’s the laptop experience that I’m enjoying most.

I’ll keep at it and hopefully they’ll iron out some of the issues. The most frustrating is that what’s there seems great but it doesn’t work as it should yet, and the old functionality that its meant to improve upon is gone.

So as you can already tell by the title of this, I’m a billion years behind, still waiting for the dinosaurs to be wiped out when it comes to films these days.. is there even such a thing as a spoiler alert for a film that’s been out over a year?.. probably. I’ve had this (and many others) sitting on my shelf for an age and never got round to peeling the cellophane off and putting the disk in the player. Tonight finally we got round to watching it.. can I use the words ‘tour de force’ without sounding like a sarcastic ponce?

There is a hint of sarcasm in that, but you know what, me ‘n the wife were in tears at the end.. there were some very simple ‘tricks’ to get the audience to feel clever. I wouldn’t say subtle enough to make you feel it subliminally, it was more .. COLOUR CHANGES WHEN HE’S HAPPY than shhhhh.. change  saturation .. shhhhh. Still it was effective if a little naive. Who am I to call Tom Ford naive before commenting, or more complementing everyone involved in making a nervous journey that you can feel won’t end well, maintaining the slowest ever cliff hanger while keeping you completely engaged. Not for one second was there anything that seemed unnecessary in this simple story that seemed to be spread out pretty thin like a size zero model on a catwalk. In fact every detail seemed like it must be a callback to something from some book or other. Does it automatically make you want to read Isherwood.. maybe? What’s the deal with the owl? Full moon? Lingering semi awkward closeups to show how perfect and beautiful imperfect can be.

As a coming of age teen comedy, it falls flat.. Ben Stiller fails to materialise and grab his crotch.. however, as a stylish as hell, happily sad and depressing film about love lost it succeeds beautifully. Through temptation our ‘protagonist’ ? well anyway, the main guy is testing himself and you can feel it that he’s looking for that escape that feels right, but it never comes. He has ultimate dignity, no shame, and the not-quite-sixth-sense ending leaves you even more happysad than ever. I don’t think there’s a sequel in the works lets put it that way.. shame, I guess I’ll have to hope Tom Ford makes some more films about something else.

It also reminded me of a time when I was working for Gieves & Hawkes (Savile Row tailors) under Joe Casely-Hayford, and a collection was being based on the work of Christopher Isherwood.. it seemed like an arbitrary decision at the time, like ‘who the hell is this Isherwood character anyhow?!’ but the fact that Tom Ford chose him as the subject for his directorial debut, I must pass on my internet kudos to Joe. It shows how uncultured I am more than anything, that’s right kids, listen to your superiors, they often have metaphorical nuggets of gold to share with you.

Two notes, I’m firstly really glad I didn’t see that at the cinema. I can’t think of anything worse than coming out at the end with 200 other happysadites staring blurrily at eachother like they’d just seen Irreversible except they didn’t want to puke or get therapy. I don’t do after-intense-movie smalltalk. Maybe I’m missing out on my weepy cry-ee side.

I said two so, secondly, it’s not that I didn’t want to see it and it was a happy surprise (like the Godfather which took me forever to sit down with and it turned out awesome beyond all expectations) I actually did want to see it, just haven’t watched a film in a long time. I have a few others that I want to see but probably won’t for a good while either.

When I unwrapped it I noticed that new dvd smell, something you certainly don’t get with downloads (unless you burn out your .. no, there’s no case for me to finish that sentence. Will physical media ever die? .. will I continue to see styrofoam packaging and odd looks of confusion when I point out it should be illegal to throw that crap away? ..anyway, watch the film with a loved one and have a good hug and cry afterwards, you’ll feel like a billion yen.

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See a pattern emerging here? Here’s a site that went online recently, we’re pretty excited to see where this all goes, and the lady behind it I think has a great concept going here. This will be an ongoing project, expanding the site into it’s planned state, and lets see what happens after that.. good luck to Emma, check out the site and get in touch with her! www.highrollerhair.com

So after going to the London Facebook Developer Garage tonight, I was happily surprised that it was more useful than the month before. I don’t really know the atmosphere there fully yet, but it’s good to be a regular for a bit, become a familiar face and part of the community. I somehow got speaking to some people who seemed to be in nice positions, and had a slightly surreal feeling when I felt that half of the people were there to learn and the other half there to recruit!

Still I’ll get my head around it somehow.. Tomorrow.. or today depending on how you look at it, is the Firefox 4 launch party in Kings Cross.. this event like many others I’ve been to recently doesn’t have a particular protocol that I know of. It’s a constant surprise to go to these things and just wander about not being able to fathom the intermissions, the vaguely awkward networking time that more and more seems to be the way of the world.

I’ve also taken to live tweeting with tweetdeck for these conferences, which is actually more to talk to the people in the room than anything else. Tonight @FDGL it turned out that I had already had a conversation over twitter with the guy behind me.. he said “are you chippieTV?!?.. you sent me a message about the clock!” which was an instant icebreaker. More and more I’m seeing this kind of thing where I actually feel much more connected to someone I’m online with than anyone in a room full of strangers. Laptops and digital devices rule, I’m just a victim of social media losing my social skills..

If I was going to sum up a few things of the last couple of days aside from this, I decided to get a tumblr, so you’ll (not sure who I’m talking to here) see a sidebar with a feed of that. I will probably one day integrate that better, I’d rather it seamlessly pulled them in and put them chronologically in with the main posts, I’ll have to figure that out later. The nice thing is, the iPhone app for tumblr is nice and easy to use, the wordpress is less so. There’s too much control with wordpress, if you just want to drop a bit of text or an image then tumblr is good for that, or so it seems so far. Anything more complicated and you seem to be holding a lemon looking confused like.. “is this an ebay listing for a mint green ford focus or am I in need of caffeine?!”

Apart from the ease of use (and the fact that I’m testing it out with the idea that I’ll pass a client the knowledge) the community seems to be what blogger wasn’t, or not to me anyway. By having the likes and social sharing, mixed with the fact that it’s so easy to use practically anyone can figure it out, you end up with different unheard voices. Blogging isn’t exactly difficult but it’s not exactly simple either. Ever try to lay out a page as if it’s a magazine, fiddling around with image sizes and alignment, fighting with the interface.. well then you’ll know it’s not just one step up from pen and paper.. A close friend of mine is working as editor for a blog called satellite voices, part of Dazed & Confused (that information is correct if I remember right, if not, don’t get angry at him. .or me!) He’s currently posting 16-20 wordpress articles per day mainly focusing on getting the look and feel right to make consistent the content provided to him by the many writers, this will be fixed but we were discussing that the ease of tumblr certainly makes it interesting as a way for quick information, put longer articles in properly and create a precedence for quick news. We’re not the first to come to this conclusion, in fact it’s been suggested to me before, but it just seems that much more relevant to me right now.

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Just a little plug for a company I have nothing to do with but must thank for their amazing service. I’m not a paying subscriber to them at the moment but have recommended them to many clients after finding them great for the email marketing stuff that they specialise in.

Today’s main tips are, go and download the templates for HTML emails from their site, it’s a great starting place for doing your own HTML emails, I know it saved me a fair headache when I had to redo a template last week. I’m also loving the fact that they have a testing service that lets you see what your newsletters will look like in a whole bunch of different email clients.. it’s going to feature heavily in my workflow in future.

also I can’t go without pointing you to their awesome resources section.. it has a ton of amazingly useful information all for free. You can findresearch based on over half a billion emails that they sent, so you can see how your campaigns hold up compared to others in your sector, of course the templates mentioned above, in a github repository so you know there’s a process to keep an eye on them and submit bugs etc.

I think that’s about it for the plugs.. I’m loving the PDF guides too, I know that email marketing isn’t my speciality so maybe some of the things I’ve learned are obvious to many people, but I’m sure there’s plenty in there for all of us to learn from..

Happy learning!

I received a pretty convincing spam/phishing email pretending to be from Apple today that certainly caught my attention. It was offering 80% discounts on the “new” Adobe Creative Suite, CS5, with Photoshop at $100. What I guess made it vaguely convincing at first was that since the launch of the mac app store, there has been a few severely discounted bits of software. Like Apple’s Aperture went from £169 to £44.99, and I think that’s left people wondering if Adobe will get in on the actions. Chances are they won’t even at full price. Pro apps don’t appear to be there, mainly because of the sheer size of the downloads (FCP is maybe 6DVDs, some 22+GB if I remember correctly).

I straight away tweeted it and then searched for phishing tweets. Twitter isn’t exactly the white hat’s first place to look this stuff up, I’m sure there’s more professional sources, but there’s definitely power in the crowd.. I wonder if it could work as a crowd sourced early warning system for this kind of thing, just to spread the word. I’m sure it already does.

I had a bit of an idea for a service, but with everything it’s a bit hard for me to get into every kind of project. It’s probably not new since it seemed so obvious when I thought about it, and I’ve not looked much into this but it seemed like a good idea to put the idea down somewhere, here seemed as good a place as any.

I’ll start with a sinister thought, just because I’ve been reading Daniel Suarez again. Grab the users who are tweeting the phishing scam keywords and target them with more spam, whether via twitter.. or worse. These days there’s always a bit of social networking data floating around on you so it’s probably not too hard to find out an email address or other way in from your twitter account. I just got that pang of fear as I punched the tweet button that these days it’s not exactly hard to be found saying something or other.. stick your face on it and some location data and suddenly you’re making real world enemies! Anyway, enough random unfounded paranoia

So would it be possible to keep track of phishing with a set of twitter searches, analyse the tweets with the word phishing etc. in and issue some form of early warning system? Setup some honeypots or get the community to submit the emails for analysis. This data could then be integrated live into mail filtering to stamp out these emails. I suppose spam filters would pick this kind of thing up unless they’d spoofed the sender’s address, I’m pretty sure Apple doesn’t send offers of OEM priced software from random Hotmail accounts either!

I have seen a couple of sites with RSS feeds dedicated to phishing scams but looks like they focus on ones from money institutions, mostly listing ebay and major banks. I’m half surprised that there’s not more facebook phishing going on, since I personally get a high volume of update emails, wouldn’t be too hard for that to slip by. I don’t often click the links in those emails though, maybe just out of mistrust for email in general.

These guys seem to be on it, helping provide takedown of phishing sites www.fraudwatchinternational.com, but still, something crowd sourced and open might be a fun project too..

I received a pretty convincing spam/phishing email pretending to be from Apple last night that certainly caught my attention. It was offering 80% discounts on the “new” Adobe Creative Suite, CS5, with Photoshop CS5 Extended at $109.90.

What I guess made it more convincing at first was that since the recent launch of the mac app store, there has been a few severely discounted bits of software. Like Apple’s Aperture went from £169 to £44.99. The desktop ecosystem has been shaken and I think that’s left people wondering if Adobe will get in on the actions, or even if Apple would let them. Chances are they won’t just now, even at full price, since they’d have to give 30% to Apple for the privilege. I’m not sure what the markup is for computer stores that carry the boxed software, whether they buy the licence and actually invest in stock, or if they just carry the physical packaging and are charged as they sell it, kind of a hybrid of virtual and physical retail.

Anyone with answers to that please comment.

Virgin Megastores and Zavvi had a similar in house shop within a shop, who’s model as I understood it was that they wouldn’t hold stock of PC software items, instead they would do the equivalent of ‘print on demand’, burning the discs for you there and then. Perhaps that made sense, like an online purchase that you don’t have to wait to download if you have a slow connection, and you have a face to take it back to should you be unhappy with your purchase, and of course, better than Amazon, you get the physical product to take away with you.. all without them having to hold physical stock of the essentially digital product.

As it goes for the App store, large pro apps don’t appear to be there, at the moment at least. Certain products are in competition with Apple’s offerings.. Creative Suite Production Bundle is an alternative to Final Cut Studio, just as Lightroom is an alternative to Aperture. They don’t stock these in the retail stores either..
That and the sheer size of the downloads. Final Cut Studio is maybe 6DVDs, some 22+GB if I remember correctly, and although Photoshop only weighs in at around 1.4GB, that’s not something that they want a bunch of people to be downloading all at once.

Sadly peer to peer got a bad rap through piracy, since the technology is actually a very efficient means of distribution while saving network bandwidth. I almost wonder if in the upcoming horrendously multicore processors, like the 1000 core experimental ones we’re hearing about, if a peer to peer type connection between the processors is some way of solving the problem of interconnection.

I often thought that the biological brain works so well partly because of smart interconnections, where each neuron is a very basic programmable computer in it’s own right. That way it can adjust its connections based on a chemical program, where hormones act as a transport layer, sending large areas messages all at once, (think disable less critical multitasking and increase focus in a fight or flight adrenalin situation). Instead of a wire being a dumb connection, the ability to decide the best agent to take care of a task would, in my mind at least give the overall structure emergent intelligence. Couple that with the fact that all areas of the brain need to be stream based processing, since I can’t see there being complex packet routing and wait cases biologically. All areas must be able to access and overflow depending on the situation. Digital computers run on a virtual knife edge, a single bit out here or there is enough to trip up any software, we’ve just got smarter processes for dealing with that.

Anyway, I’m certainly getting far off topic here. I can’t say that I’m the research guy so I don’t know what they’ll do, but that seems like p2p is a step in the right direction to getting skynet online. Sadly the media decided that killing pirates was more important than the technological advance and so to me at least, P2P has a little bit of a dirty feeling. I guess I’ll sleep better knowing that I didn’t play such a part in the apocalypse just yet.

If this post is anything to go by, my brain is a river, there’s a one way train of thought that doesn’t really tie back on itself in the end .. what a terrible article. It’s like 5 ideas that all need to be fleshed out separately!

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It was literally 2 weeks ago that I upgraded from XP to Windows 7, all because I need to be able to test websites. I’d been using XP virtualised for some time but was getting frustrated with it’s lack of support for certain software.. it was time to upgrade. It wasn’t as painless as I’d hoped, and had to jump through some stupid hoops, like figuring out why I can’t activate windows upgrade when I did it as a fresh install (it’s running in a VM! I don’t want to install XP and upgrade it on disk!). Still the internet has smart people telling others how to solve their problems and that one was overcome.

I’m not writing this as a review as such, just a little bit on my recent experience, but making a ‘switch’ back to windows, even if it’s literally an Alt+Tab away from my OSX, has been a bit of a confusion.

I don’t know where I’d class myself in computer users. I’ve been using computers since I was small, built a few (in the lego sense) and maintained my own for years. I think I was using XP heavily before my switch, and actually found moving to OSX a great improvement. Being in the technology world, there’s a lot you miss out on if you’re sticking to your platform guns. It’s hard to find a decent UK accounting software for Macs and a whole lot of other things too. I don’t often run up against difficulties in my day to day life, but it’s always good to know what else there is. I want to use the best tool for the job.

So enter Windows 7 (very much later than it’s release I know).. what does it feel like to a regular Mac user? Well not too bad actually. I can’t talk about performance since it’s virtualised at the moment, but interface has been a bit of getting used to. I have found myself digging around trying to figure out if something’s been installed. It seems to work a lot heavier on it’s start menu shortcuts and “intelligently” selecting what it thinks should and shouldn’t go there depending on what you use regularly.

Still one of my main interests was putting Visual Studio on it and playing a bit with silverlight. I was writing a post about that but it’s not really detailed enough since I’ve not spent any time with silverlight as yet, but it’s the platform to develop Microsoft Pivot, so I’m interested to see what’s going on there. I’d also be interested in trying to make something that does similar with jQuery and HTML5 data storage, but that’s another story for a deeper researched post.

There’s not really much striking about Windows 7 to me. The interface is pretty, and sometimes pretty confusing. I don’t really find it easy to navigate the control panel, things seem to be buried in a few levels of shiny whizzy buttons, but I’m sure that’ll come with time. It definitely feels like a big step up from XP in classic mode. I never liked the XP look, it always made me feel like Tomy’s my first computer.. the classic interface was far better, but 7 blows it away.

What I’d really like to do is review some software at some point, relating my differences to the mac equivalent. I remember being really frustrated that Windows has windows.. as you’d expect, while mac programs have a slightly different metaphor. If you take Photoshop for example, the Windows version I used to use had a lovely “double click the background to open” feature.. the Mac version has a “oops I clicked something other than photoshop, switch to that program”, which depending on the particular circumstance is not always what you actually want to happen.

Frustrations aside, it’s healthy to try new things, Windows 7 is a new toy of mine, although I have a feeling it’ll be getting a bit dusty aside from it’s original cross platform testing purpose..

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Did I get bored of technology or did my iPhone 4 just make me completely apathetic to new releases of phones? I have to wonder about the tech news that announces endless phones and tablets, that possibly Apple isn’t actually for the device snobs, but for the people without the attention span to figure out which of the competition is actually good!

The reason I switched from hating Macs and their stupid one button mice, to owning and using one every day of my life.. sadly no exaggeration, is that apart from deciding how much to spend and when to spend it, the rest is pretty much taken care of for you. I don’t have to worry so much about graphics cards and processors, which I used to obsess over, from building my own PC’s in the 3.1 and 98 days, to running Windows 7 virtualised on my new iMac.. just for testing cross platform you understand.

Anyway, back to droid, and it’s going to be a very brief back to. I can’t say that I’ve had a whole lot of interest in them, although listening to podcasts from the TWiT network and other tech shows does put a lot of Android information into my stream. I guess I just don’t care..

In the VMs I’ve got I have a couple of Linux distros so I’m not against open source by any means, for operating systems or anything for that matter, but mild horror stories surrounding the politics of Android are surfacing all the time.

One of the more recent ones that springs to mind is that a certain company was withholding the latest release of the Android OS to push it’s higher end devices, while leaving people who’ve got the perfectly upgradeable older version stuck. The open-ness of the platform doesn’t mean that the people implementing it are going to stick to the same open ethics. I’m not expert in this but I have a feeling that the licence on Android allows proprietary forks to the code, or some such other stupid thing that basically renders Android less than open depending on the implementation. Sure you can go to the trouble to hack your phone and possibly that’s exactly what Linux users have come to expect, but for the vast majority it brings up the same arguments that said Linux wasn’t ready for the desktop. Sure it works out the box, but the second you have to make any adjustments to something, you need a big heavy book or a bit of time on “The Google” to figure it out.. that doesn’t make for a user-friendly-for-all product. You’re not going to be telling uncle Herbert over the phone how to root his phone and yadda yadda..

You also have to wonder about the environmental impacts here. There have been murmurs of shortages of some raw materials, which will in future cause issues for the manufacture of touch screen devices. If no other solution is found this could prove a problem unless a paradigm comes along and shifts us away from them. With all these devices, there’s got to be a fare few that fail and end up scrap. Not that this is new, but it seems we’re in a 4th generation gold rush for mobile. We’re approaching bubble territory with phones being released what seems like daily, and people still locked into 24 month contracts with carriers..

So .. Android market share is currently huge, is that because it’s everywhere, is that evenly spread worldwide? Is that in countries like China where there’s no shortage of highly skilled manufacturers finding legal ways to release their own devices? Is it because the iPhone restricts users, or even that the iPhone itself is restricted to certain networks and technology (read “Verison iPhone” from that), or do people genuinely buy into the open-ness of Android? I can see the developer’s angle, but otherwise I think I’m missing the excitement.

Maybe I just need to go out and get one and figure out what all the kerfuffle is for myself..

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Another quick one about sites I’ve been working on. I’ve been working with Mo for a while now on Anglomania and other projects (more of which I’m sure will be the topic of discussion later), and as a promotional tool for some of the work we put together www.mosow.co.uk

More will be added as projects that we’re working on draw to a close.