Being the homepage of Matt Gibson, a random geek, writer and photographer from Bristol.

Snow Leopard Blues

September 3, 2009 Posted in Updates by Matt

I’ve not upgraded to Snow Leopard. And I’m not sure whether I will, anytime soon. This is unusual for me. I’m normally a bleeding-edge, early adopter type. I’ll happily install the .0 release of Apple things the day after they come out. So, according to the marketing hype, Snow Leopard should be a no-brainer for me. […]


Apologies for the Inconvenience

August 26, 2009 Posted in Updates by Matt

Sorry to anyone who was just troubled by an odd post here; I was in the middle of fiddling with Technorati and forgot to delete a claim post. It’s been a while since I blogged properly here. I’ve mostly been concentrating on less geeky areas in my life, like photography and getting a bit fitter. In […]


Finder Image Previews Randomly Not Working

February 1, 2009 Posted in Geekery, Graphics, Mac, Updates by Matt

Just a quick note: if you’ve got problems in OS X with your Finder previews not showing up, apparently fairly randomly, I may have the answer. This was my problem: some of my JPEG (and other) previews would be fine, some would be just showing the default “it’s a JPEG” icon. Quick Look actually worked […]


New face!

January 6, 2008 Posted in Updates by Matt

Updated the Welcome page with the fact that I’ve now finished working on articles for the book I’m contributing to, and also changed my photo because I was bored with the old one


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