Recently, I encountered a REALLY annoying issue with my Mac Magic Mouse disconnecting every time it was bumped.
Sometimes when I listen to music I like to tap my desk and without realising, I tap my mouse as well (the Apple purists are probably shrieking reading that). Recently I put some new batteries into the mouse because the other ones went flat and then found I kept getting disconnected.
The issue wasn’t the batteries coming out, because letting the mouse sit and then tapping it would reconnect it to my Mac. The issue is actually the type of batteries that you use in your mouse and a subtle design flaw in the Magic Mouse battery compartment.
Even though I recently purchased a MacBook Pro, I still use a Windows PC at home running Windows 8.1. There are so many quirks and issues in Windows 8 I would love to see version 9 fix and a few new features to make things better.
Start Menu
Supposedly already featured thanks to leaks from Microsoft themselves, Windows 9 will see a return of the classic start menu. The jokes about Windows 9 being Windows 7 with a different skin aren’t actually that far from the truth.
After the amount of backlash it received for spreading U2’s new album forcefully upon ALL iTunes users, Apple have created a tool to remove the U2 album, “Songs of Innocence” from your iTunes library permanently.
While it was a creative attempt at trying to break a record for largest album release ever recorded, it was basically a form of malware. I am sure some people liked the new album, but many didn’t because it was a steaming pile of shit.
In what sounds like a crazed conspiracy theory, it actually might turn out that the Malaysian Government and authorities have been covering up the fate of missing flight MH370 the whole time.
General Sutarman the head of the Indonesian Police Force apparently made the claim during a meeting of senior police and airline officials.
Apparently he said:
“I spoke to the Malaysian Police Chief Tun Mohammed Hanif Omar. I actually know what had actually happened with MH370.”
Can you hear that? It’s the sound of Bono laughing uncontrollably as he counts the reported one hundred million dollars his band U2 were paid by Apple in exchange for releasing their latest album Songs Of Innocence to all 500 million iTunes members for free, as part of the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus announcement.
If you have an iTunes account, you’ve been “gifted” the album from U2, congratulations. Whether you want it or not, it’s there right in your iTunes account, enjoy.
That is the question. While researching a potential MacBook purchase, the one question I had but could not find a definitive and up-to-date answer is: Can you play DOTA 2 realiably on a MacBook and if so, what models?
I am not a big gamer, but I do like to play the occasional game of Dota 2 where I can. I usually play on PC, but I will be travelling, so I had to get a laptop.
I recently moved to a Mac and one of the first things I did was install Homebrew, then setup all of my PHP projects, one of them being a Laravel project which uses Composer for dependencies.
Then I hit a snag telling my I had exhausted my allowed memory allocation in my php.ini file. Well, shit.
The exact message I got was:
Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 536870912 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 32 bytes) in phar:///usr/local/Cellar/composer/1.0.0-alpha8/libexec/composer.phar/src/Composer/DependencyResolver/RuleWatchNode.php on line 40
If you’re new to MongoDB and coming from a primarily RDBMS background like MySQL, getting your head around the queries can be difficult at first. This handy tool allows you to convert simple SQL queries to MongoDB, it allows you to get an easy understanding of how queries work without needing to know what to search in the documentation.
There is also another tool that works well if one or the other doesn’t and is usually my first choice which is this tool called Query Mongo. Both tools are invaluable if you’re starting out with the language, the benefit of this second one is it supports more advanced queries. I’ve added both in, in-case one or the other goes down for whatever reason.
In this world there are two different kinds of people: Android people and Apple people. After revealing the latest additions to their sought-after and some would say overhyped phones, Apple’s latest iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus models have yielded the question: should you buy an iPhone 6 or Samsung Galaxy S5 and if it even matters.
It’s worth pointing out Apple’s genius strategy of releasing two different sized phones. A 4.7" inch iPhone 6 base model for those who don’t care for oversized miniature tablet screens and a 5.5" iPhone 6 Plus for those tired of being bashed by their Samsung phablet owning friends remarking over how small their screen is.
Some of you might know that American post-hardcore/rock band from Irvine, California, Thrice are my all time favourite band. I have seen them every time they’ve visited Australia before they went on hiatus.
Today, my latest and quite possibly most prized addition to my Thrice music collection arrived, a rare and very hard to find promo copy of The Artist In The Ambulance in instrumental form. This was one hard CD to track down, but I found it and bought it for a steal as well. I would have paid way more than I did for this just to have it, but I am glad I didn’t.