Cormac Moylan

Hi, my name is Cormac and this is my blog. On the web circa July 2006.

Entries Tagged as 'Apple Macs'

Macblogger.net - Apple Mac Tips & Tricks (a new blog by yours truly)

May 30th, 2007 · 4 Comments

On the 20th of this month I posted for the first time on my new Apple Mac Blog - macBlogger.net. That post gave the run down on my intentions for the site and why I set it up in the first place. I have grown sick and tired of using the same Microsoft based systems [...]

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Tags: Apple Macs · Websites · Wordpress & Blogs

#1 Tip for buying from Apple

May 3rd, 2007 · 3 Comments

Ring them. Don’t order online.
Their sales reps are on a commission so they’re eager to make a sale.
I just picked up a Wireless Mighty Mouse and a case for more than half price.
Happy days

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Tags: Apple Macs

iPod video quality is surprisingly excellent

March 16th, 2007 · 11 Comments

Last night I imported a video from my Mac onto my iPod for the first time via quicktime. The movie in question was Harsh Times. As an .avi file Harsh Times was approx 720mb. The conversion to the iPod format took approx 2 hours to encode/decode, after the 2 hours a 1.2gb file was resting [...]

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Tags: Apple Macs · Movies and TV · Software

Filezilla FTP beta on the MAC, great news!

March 8th, 2007 · 13 Comments

Chris has made my day by pointing out that my favourite ftp client is making its debut on the MAC. Filezilla!

There are only a handful of applications I have really missed since I converted to Apple from Windows. uTorrent, gTalk and Winamp are still MIA on the MAC but I never got over loosing out [...]

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Tags: Apple Macs · Software

Google Phone to take on Apple’s iPhone - Thy rumour mill needs some oil!

March 6th, 2007 · No Comments

Crunchgear is after causing a bit of a stir after it reported on Google’s intent to follow Apple into the mobile phone market with the launch of Google Switch. Or so the rumour goes.
An insider has leaked this photograph of a mobile device to which Google is accredited to be developing with Samsung and Orange. [...]

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Tags: Apple Macs · Google · Software · Technology

Zen Creative MP3 Player vs iPod Video MP3 Player

February 22nd, 2007 · 8 Comments

I had a bit of a hate relationship with iPods before I ever had the chance to play around with one properly. Now that I have had my iPod for nearly a week, has that relationship changed at all?
I’m having a love-hate relationship with the iPod at the moment.
There are features on the iPod which [...]

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Tags: Apple Macs · Music · Personal · Podcasting · Technology