April 2005

Upgrading to Tiger

Well, my copy of Tiger should arrive today, but in the meantime I’ve bought, downloaded and scanned an invaluable reference book. I have now decided I’ll do an erase and install after all, especially since I have a complete backup of all my files, in one place. Take Control of Upgrading to Tiger by Joe [...]

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What’s the question?

It’s been a couple of decades since I read the books or saw the TV show, but today I watched the movie: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, and I was not disappointed. Douglas Adams’ work is still very funny. The choice of Stephen Fry as narrator was perfect. Deep Thought was beautifully conceived to [...]

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Good news after a trying day

It’s been a tricky and annoying day, complicated by a headache, so this is very welcome news: We are pleased to report that the following items from your order have shipped. 1 x Mac OS X 10.4 – Tiger (APPM9639Z/A)

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Tiger updates

OK, let’s be brief. Pretty well every bit of software that exists today is being updated for Tiger. If you have software and want to keep up to date check the maker’s website. Tiger itself will be available within the next 24 hours. I expect to be installing it tomorrow. My biggest decision is whether [...]

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Show file extensions

A trap for Web designers (and others): the default setting on both Windows and Mac is to hide file extensions. This means that a file that’s really called MyFile.txt looks as though it’s called MyFile. Web designers need to know whether it’s MyFile.txt or MyFile.html or MyFile.jpg and so on. To put this right and [...]

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iTunes New Zealand: this week – not this week?

I don’t generally bother writing about rumours on this Blog, but of course I follow the overseas rumour sites with interest. After reading various items (mentioned below) I’m pretty much expecting to see an Australian iTunes Music Store open up today and am hoping we Kiwis will be allowed to use it. An article today [...]

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