Howard Oakley

Font woes in Mac OS X 10.6.7 update

by Adam Banks on 29 March 2011 in News

Users have reported broad and reproducible issues with font rendering after installing Mac OS X 10.6.7, the most recent update to the Mac operating system. In attempting to address potential security weaknesses, Apple seems to have broken the way certain fonts are encoded. User Kurt Lang, posting on Apple’s support forum, identified a specific problem [...]

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A spot of chaos theory

by Howard Oakley on 27 October 2010 in Help
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We were returning from an idyllic Pyrenean holiday, and had just boarded the Eurostar in Paris, sweaty heaps after a sprint to the far end of the train, when my wife announced that she had lost her passport. Technically, as we had cleared UK passport control, this would not impede our return, but it needed [...]

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The new open university

by Howard Oakley on 13 October 2010 in Help
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iTunes U is a great resource for anyone interested in broadening their minds, and if you have not yet used it, then I recommend you do so. Professor Simon Schama may not be my favourite art historian, but he’s without doubt one of the most exciting and inspiring. If you find yourself growing numb in [...]

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Plugging a leak

by Howard Oakley on 29 September 2010 in Help
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Companies no longer need to worry about spies with miniature cameras. These days, anyone with an iPod can make off with valuable data. As every good James Bond fan knows, the essential tool of the trade used to be a subminiature Minox camera. The spy’s daily drudge would involve sneaking into an office in the [...]

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Arts in hard times

by Howard Oakley on 15 September 2010 in Help
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With Apple relying on creatives in the past to keep it going, it’s time it gave something back to the art world now it’s sitting on $40 billion. If you had missed the brassy big band syncopation of Pearl and Dean’s Asteroid theme, it was sometimes easy to mistake a cinema ad for the feature. [...]

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Wifi me up, Scotty

by Howard Oakley on 1 September 2010 in Help
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There’s a whole raft of great apps for the iPad, but the lack of wifi hotspots means you often find you can’t access them. For my son, the most exciting item in the Apple parcel was an AppleCare Technician Training package. He’s completing his Cisco training, but rather than my corrupting his youth with soccer [...]

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