August 2005

Sudoku widget

I’d heard of Sudoku, but hadn’t looked into it until I saw my partner scratching away with pen and paper solving a puzzle. A quick Google brought me to Brian DeBoer’s Sudoku widget and in spite of my fears the puzzle is not nearly as impossible as it looks. Brian’s widget is also kind enough [...]

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Macguide 23: podcasts, Automator, Scott eVest

Macguide Issue 23 has finally arrived in my mailbox. This issue has a heavy focus on broadband and includes my Newbies Guide to Podcasts, my PowerUp to Automator and my review of the Scott eVest technology-enabled clothing. It’s been a while since I wrote the clothing review and I must say my opinion of the [...]

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Apple NZ RSS Feeds

Apple NZ now have a couple of RSS feeds (direct links follow): Hot News RSS and Creative RSS.

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Google archive saves the day

“Help!”, my client said, “I’ve just deleted the main page of my website and I don’t have a backup. Do I have to recreate it from scratch?” “Aha!”, I said, “first try this: find your website on Google and click on the link for the cached version. Now grab the HTML source and tidy it [...]

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Different readers

New Scientist tells us: Westerners and Easterners see the world differently: Each picture showed a striking central image placed in a realistic background, such as a tiger in a jungle. They found that the American students spent longer looking at the central object, while the Chinese students’ eyes tended to dart around, taking in the [...]

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Sidenote

MacCentral led me to Macworld: Feature: Software Bargains: Productivity tools: New and updated reviews of awesome free and low-cost software by Dan Frakes which led me to Sidenote 1.7 On-Screen Note App. Sidenote hides a notepad that supports rich text, images, and PDFs on the edge of your screen — the notepad appears when you [...]

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