November 2007

TiKouka in bloom

This blog is named TiKouka, after the cabbage trees we have around our property. (That’s outside of the property — we don’t yet have any within the boundary.) In spring and early summer the tikouka bloom, with gorgeous panicles of creamy white flowers. With this year’s early summer, the trees are currently rather splendid, as [...]

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On software licenses

Excellent! On checking my copy of Photoshop CS3 I find I’m allowed to install it on both my Macs. I just can’t use both copies of Photoshop at the same time. Fair enough. Since setting up the MacBook I’ve been trying to keep the system on it as slim and lean as possible. It’s a [...]

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Worst web sentence? Compete for free courses

Rachel McAlpine has set up a competition that closes on 3 December 2007: what’s the worst sentence on the web?: Send us the worst sentence you’ve seen on a web site. Maybe it’s incomprehensible — or pointless — or incredibly redundantly circuitously absurdly wordy. The winner gets to do Contented courses free. That’s worth US$225.00, [...]

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Use Applescript to assign applications to Spaces

No sooner had I published today’s MacTip, Assign Applications to Leopard Spaces, than I read about: Nifty AppleScripts from Jesse Newland for managing Spaces’s application assignments (e.g. “assign this app to space 2”). These scripts let you manage these assignments without going into the Spaces panel in System Prefs. [Via Daring Fireball.] Find the scripts [...]

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The Apple Sale (New Zealand)

We Kiwis just don’t receive discounts and reductions on Apple products — except maybe once a year at the end of November: The Apple Store (New Zealand) – Ready. Set. Shop.: Come back to the Apple Online Store on Friday, November 30th for a special one-day-only holiday shopping event. You’ll find dozens of great iPod [...]

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Quick Look inside a folder

My current series of MacTips is all about Quick Look — a new feature in Leopard. It lets you quickly see what’s in various files, but unfortunately it doesn’t see inside folders. Now xdd has created a Folder Quick Look Plugin that Taiyo@hatena explains how to use: Folder.qlgenerator shows pretty good file list on Quick [...]

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