9 Nov 2013

Trace/BPT trap: 5 when accessing SystemVersion.plist in Mavericks

If you’re reading this blog entry because you’re a subscriber, I’d stop now and skip this one. Unless you’re extremely geeky. This is more of a public service announcement to anyone who’s installed OSX 10.9 and Xcode 5, and finds themselves oddly unable to compile even the simplest program using the command-line tools, from gcc […]

14 Aug 2013

Instagram

Instagram

Sometimes I use my phone camera to decide if it’s worth getting the big camera out. iPhone & Instagram: 60D, EF‑S 17 – 55 f/2.8 IS & Lightroom:

11 Aug 2013

Bloons

Bloons

Three of my photos from the Balloon Fiesta this weekend. It’s been good. Though I was too knackered to get up for the mass ascent this morning, which was a shame, as it looked like nice blue skies…

22 Jul 2013

Command-Backslash not working with the 1Password Safari Extension?

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For us old-school keyboard-lovers, 1Password’s Safari extension provides a handy shortcut: pressing Cmd-\ activates the extension. If you’ve found this doesn’t work on your Mac (it worked fine on my Air, but not on my iMac), it’s probably a conflict with another keyboard shortcut. Head into System Preferences→Keyboard and check through the Keyboard Shortcuts for […]

21 Jul 2013

The first hundred’s the most difficult…

Well, that’s sweet. My first little app for iOS — trivial, but it seems to fill a certain niche — just hit $100 in revenue. I released it a couple of months back, so it’s therefore earning me about £30 a month. Not exactly earth-shattering cash, but it’s better than nothing, and more importantly means that I’ve taken an […]