Author Archives: Clive Sweeting

Flash 10.1 doesn’t help video playback…

Posted on June 11, 2010

Adobe have just released Flash 10.1 Player and I was hoping that it would include GPU acceleration, just like the Windows version. Why is this important? Next time you open up YouTube, LoveFilm, or the BBC iPlayer, take a look … Continue reading →

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MobileMe synchronisation problems

Posted on May 26, 2010

Whilst MobileMe is a great way of keeping your Address Book and iCal data synced between multiple Macs, it’s known to have quite a few quirks. You can particularly have issues after migrating data to a new machine that uses … Continue reading →

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Coping with the Seige mentality

Posted on December 28, 2009

Over the last few days I’ve started to think more carefully about performance optimization, from both the user’s and webserver’s point of view. A few tests using the rather excellent Siege showed huge drop offs in performance when serving quite … Continue reading →

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Problems with Apple Remote control and Snow Leopard

Posted on December 28, 2009

If you have a problem with your Apple Remote not working after upgrading to OS 10.6 ‘Snow Leopard’, you aren’t alone. Unfortunately the problem is quite common, has numerous time-consuming suggested fixes that generally don’t work, and utterly predictable. Apple … Continue reading →

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