I'm very sad to see that LWC (Lightsoft Weather Center) is shutting down due to health problems - it's a really good weather center, eht only really good one I've found for Osx.

The announcement

(use at your own risk) - a webpage where you can download a piece of software to patch your Apple supplied DVD player to get rid of those annoying FBI notices and copyright notices at the beginning of each DVD replay:

Why won't the DVD player in OS X allow me to skip certain content or change audio/subtitle tracks on certain DVDs? you ask.

Well, the first answer is UOPs, or user operation prohibitions, and the second answer is probably some sort of licensing blah-blah-blah that prohibits Apple from ignoring UOPs in their software.

We have a lot of books - and over the years we have tried to keep track of some of these in various versions of databases.

The current favourites are Bookpedia on the Mac's - and iBookshelf on the iPhone, mainly because both of them can read barcodes using the built in cameras, a very handy feature.

This of course means that I would like to export data from iBookshelf on the iPhone and import the same data into Bookpedia, and as both support .csv files to do this, everything should be ok - not so.

The export file from iBookshelf looks like this :

Apple has quietly released a battery charger - and I must admit that I did not realise it was something special until I read the following :

The specs are what make this thing particularly interesting for low-power battery-powered devices:

Just so set the scene :

- I have a iPhone 4 (Vodafone UK)

- And I have a Boingo mobile phone subscription on it (around £4/month)

I am currently sitting outside Starbucks - on my MacBook - connected to the Internet using tethering from the MacBook to the iPhone.

It looks remarkably like I can use the Boingo subscription on my iPhone to connect my MacBook to the Internet through the iPhones wireless (ie Starbucks) wifi netowrk.

Hm