February 2004

Kupe, Hine-te-aparangi, He Kahurangi

Statue of Kupe, Wellington Harbour Matahourua te waka, ko Kupe te tangata, ko Hine-te-aparangi te wahine. Kupe Raiatea, the Explorer, his wife Hine-te-aparangi and Pekahourangi, the tohunga, sight Aotearoa New Zealand from their canoe Matahourua. This Kupe group statue was created in plaster of paris by sculptor William Trethewey and featured at the 1940 NZ [...]

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Navbars galore

A stylish collection of XHTML+CSS navbars from theimposter.org. [From: redemption through standards] Pretty, downloadable, effective.

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Recent Updates

Over the last couple of weeks while my Internet was down and then I was busy catching up there were various interesting software updates. Safari Extender 1.0.5 (US$10 shareware, 865Kb) adds extras to Safari, save & load tabs sets, turn images off and on, resequence tabs and more. A Better Finder Rename (updated to 6.2) [...]

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Quality Web Content

It’s always interesting to see the Americans notice the world beyond their own shores. It seems they’ve discovered Rachel McAlpine’s Quality Web Content site. It’s mentioned in: InfoDesign Digital Web Magazine Meryl’s Notes About time too, as Rachel’s excellent work is improving web writing in many places already.

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Hotmail, Safari and Mail.app

A new client has a very nice new flat-panel iMac, Safari and uses a Hotmail account. He asked for my help in printing an electronic ticket which had been emailed to him. We visited Hotmail, clicked on “download attachment”, entered a password and got precisely nowhere. We tried various workarounds and then I went searching. [...]

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FireFox review and toolbar

Over at MacOSXHints Rob G has written a useful and interesting review in the Spotlight Article: Firefox: Mozilla successfully rethinks its browser. Subsequent discussion also points to the extraordinarily useful Web Developer extension for Mozilla Firefox and Mozilla which adds a menu and a toolbar to the browser with various web developer tools. I’ve been [...]

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