Category Archives: Geek stuff

\begin{geeky procrastination when I should be writing some Gödel lectures} I keep the TeXShop editor updated, but the background LaTeX installation just works so smoothly that I haven’t bothered to touch it for a while. But I did today get … Continue reading →

Like everyone else, I download quite a few journal articles from current issues or from the Jstor archive. Question: just how do you keep the heaps of PDFs organized? What do you use to search across them? Well, I’ve belated … Continue reading →

Anyone out there who is still wavering about getting a MacBook Air might be interested in some comments from a delighted owner who has now had one for six months (this updates my “after one month” post from last August). … Continue reading →

Just for fellow Macaholics … I’ve just noticed that a new version of TeXShop has been released in the last couple of weeks, with a couple of useful little tweaks. I had a pre-release trial copy of Things for a … Continue reading →

A while back I posted about trying the OmniFocus ‘task management’ software which implements Getting Things Done type lists. As I said, it’s not that I haven’t tasks to do, and the GTD idea really does work. But, having played … Continue reading →

Anyone out there who is wavering about getting a MacBook Air might be interested in some comments from a new owner. Everyone else can, of course, just cheerfully ignore this posting! (The headline summary is: get one! — though perhaps … Continue reading →

After an electrical storm, my new MacBook Air suddenly stopped recognizing the wireless network at home. It could pick up a signal from about six neighbouring houses, but not the Airport base station a few feet away, while the old … Continue reading →

I’m a pretty minimal user of the mobile phone, and don’t use my iPod that much either … so it really would be an expensive self-indulgence to buy an iPhone and contract. OK, ok, let’s be honest, it’s still very … Continue reading →

This will only be of interest to (a few) other Mac users. But, for what it is worth … For years, I’ve taken the easy option and just installed one version of Mac OS on top of another, and migrated … Continue reading →