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Television comedian Dom Joly reveals his favourite apps and shouts at some Apple gear. MacFormat: Why use a Mac and not a PC? Dom Joly: Stupid question. They are sexier, sleeker, shinier and better. I once kicked a sound man off a shoot for using a PC. MF: What are your favourite or most-used apps and why? What do you use them for? DJ: On my iPhone I use Angry Birds, Fragger and Flick Football to keep myself…
Q. I set my Dock to auto-hide, which is great, but I noticed that it seems to reserve a few pixels of space so when you maximise a window it doesn’t fill. You can move the window and resize to fill all the screen, but I can’t seem to get it to use the space naturally and I’m wondering if you can find a solution. A. This problem probably arises…
Classical music producer Alexander van Ingen uses his iPad to keep in perfect pitch MacFormat: Who do you record music on your Mac with? Alexander Van Ingen: I have worked regularly with major UK orchestras, including the Philharmonia and London Philharmonic Orchestra, to record some of their major performances. I also work with orchestras and ensembles in Russia, Kazakhstan, India, and further afield. MF: Why a Mac and not a PC? AVI: Although our primary recording systems are based on…
Leicester recently hit the news when the bones of Richard III were found under a car park there, but now it has another reason for attracting global attention – it’s the home of NSConf, the annual gathering of the UK’s independent iPhone and iPad developers.
Q. Suddenly the iSight camera on my Mac has stopped working. The red light never comes on when it should and all I get with iChat, Photobooth and FaceTime is a black window. Skype’s video option has since been greyed out. I have had the error message ‘camera is in use by another application’ when nothing is running, even when I’ve just switched it on. An internet search suggests the…
MacFormat catches up with Richard Symons, a movie director who loves the combination of his Mac and Scrivener software. Plus, the chance to save 50% on Scrivener software!
KEY INFO Developer: Koingo Software Price: $19.95 (about £12) REQUIREMENTS OS X 10.6 or later Intel Mac, 36Mb disk space If you think that customising how your Mac behaves begins and ends with the System Preferences, you couldn’t be more wrong. Hidden away, there are hundreds of other options for both the system itself and every application, accessible only via commands typed in the Terminal. MacPilot allows users wanting to tweak their…
KEY INFO Developer: Bjango Price: $16 (about £10); upgrade $9 (about £5.50) REQUIREMENTS OS X 10.6 or later 64-bit processor iStat Menus appeals to those who love to keep a close eye on a system’s performance and need detailed information available at the click of a mouse. The product is in two parts: one that’s essentially a fancy preferences panel, plus several modules that live in the menu bar. You use the former to…
