Applecare Protection Plan – not worth the paper it’s written on

Having recently attempted to use an Applecare Extended Warranty, I thought I’d let you all know how I got on!I bought my iPhone whilst I was living in India. Shortly after my return to the UK I purchased the Applecare Protection Plan and registered it to my iPhone with no problems. About 6 months later, my iPhone had some hardware problems. I took it to an approved Apple service centre and they called me to let me know the problems. Both speakers needed replacing as did the battery. However,...

Apple Hardware Sucks

Having moved to the Mac OS in 2007 I was quickly won over by the superb operating system. However, 3 years on, I’m not nearly as impressed by their hardware.I purchased a 17 inch MacBook Pro, which is one of the top-end laptops, certainly in price! I opened the box and as impressed by the look and slick operating system. My joy didn’t last long when within 2 months the ‘w’ key came off and needed repair. Being miles from a service centre this really was a pain. 2 years later;...

Making Blogging Easier with Markdown

Having to use HTML tags for blogging is a real pain. It hides your text behind ugly tags and certainly doesn’t help you get in the flow. what you need is a markup language that is easy to learn, doesn’t obscure your text and works on most blog frameworks. There is a solution!I’ve been creating websites for some years and only learnt HTML and CSS really well. The advantage of this is that I can write HTML/CSS by hand. However, when it comes to writing blog posts the HTML tags do get in...