Michael Kratz

Apple are really good at building new and innovative products, with new and innovative features!

But somehow, with everything they do, they always miss out on some of the simplest, most logical features or tools. This goes right across their product line: OS X, hardware, Apple TV, etc. Read more

I shoot photos on my Nikon D50 camera in the Adobe RGB colour space. This colour space has a wider gamut than sRGB, which is what all Digital cameras tend to default to these days. Using Adobe RGB allows my camera to record more colour than it ordinarily would if I were using sRGB.

The only annoying issue with using Adobe RGB, is that anyone looking at or using my photos in a non-colour space aware browser, program or printer will see a ‘pastey’, flat photo, becuase these ‘dumb’ programs simply assume that the image is sRGB. So whenever I upload photos to the web or send them off to other people, I need to convert them to sRGB. Read more

I’ve been quite annoyed for a while that Apple haven’t added full support for most of the recent Nokia phones, including the E70 that I currently use.

I got even more annoyed not long ago, when, with the release of OS 10.4.9, Apple added support for the E61, yet overlooked support for the E70! These two phones are extremely similar, and both run the same version and configuration of Symbian. I was very disappointed. Until now… Read more

It’s always annoyed me that my MBP sometimes gets so hot that it is no longer comfortable to sit with it resting on my legs. It irks me that Apple have chosen to set the thresholds for the fans so low and quiet that the machine has to pretty much ‘burn skin’ before the fans will kick in at any decent rate and cool the machine down. Read more

Last week at WWDC2006, Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced the replacement of the Apple Power Macintosh G5 with the Mac Pro (as if we didn’t see that one coming!). Personally I think this machine is going to proove quite popular, not just because its ‘new’, and not just because its now on Intel like the rest of the Apple lineup. Read more

If you’re like me, and you make extensive use of Apple’s iCal to manage your daily scheduling, if you’ve previously wanted to sync it with a central Sun Calendar server, up until a short time ago, you’d have been out of luck. Read more