November 2003

Blackstar offer good service

I buy quite a few DVDs from Blackstar in the UK. Recently I received the Season 3 box set of Babylon 5. It was darned hard to remove the DVDs from the spindle thingy which holds them in the case. they were tight as. Which made it particularly surprising that two of the discs had [...]

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Opening files from the keyboard

It seems this is an old trick, but I hadn’t come across it before. MacOSXhints brings us this tip: macosxhints – Another means of opening files from the keyboard: Everyone knows that if a file is selected in a finder window that you can hit Command-O to open the file. But did you know you [...]

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Drop Drawers 1.6.3

Sig Software – Drop Drawers has a very useful place on my Mac. It’s now at version 1.6.3 which has brought various smaller maintenance updates. Drop Drawers is a revolutionary user-interface enhancement for the Mac OS or Mac OS X which provides floating pull-out, snap-shut drawers on the sides of your screen to store text, [...]

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Cirque Dreams

Just before next year’s International Festival of the Arts in Wellington Cirque Dreams are performing. I’ve never seen them but have heard how fantastic they are. The ad on TV was certainly appealing. Cirque Dreams offers inventive theatrics, European artists tradition, and limitless imagination. Cirque Dreams tells a complete story with developed characters, elaborate sets [...]

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Lord of the Rings World Premiere

With the Lord of the Rings World Premiere coming up in Wellington on Monday I’ve added a new photo album. Six pictures so far with more to come over the next few days.

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A Better Finder Rename 5.9.6

When I neded to change the names of many files for a job A Better Finder Rename did the job in a few seconds and paid for itself in my time saved. Since then I keep it on my Mac just in case. V6.0 is a recent release.

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