May 2008

To protect threatened dolphins

Last year I posted: both Hector’s and Maui’s Dolphin face imminent extinction. We can submit comments by 24 October 2007 that may give them a small chance. [Via : Extinctions: Hector’s and Maui’s dolphins — Oddity 59.] Now they have that chance. Radio New Zealand News reports Tough new measures to protect dolphins: The Government [...]

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Less smoke in NZ

It rained for days and days on end last week. One day I scurried in to the Post Office, past a bunch of people hovering in nearby doorways, smoking their cigarettes. I thought about how glad I was that most places are now smokefree by law inside, but how the covered areas of footpaths are [...]

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Ways to involve kids in IT careers

According to a post on the Webgrrls mailing list, the Dominion Post had an article on 26 May 2008 which read “Pupils being ‘put off’ computing”. Futureintech would like to turn that around and inspire kids to continue in the IT field. They say in their email: Female IT Graduates needed Are you under 30 [...]

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Plain English awards open in New Zealand

Be in folks! 2008 WriteMark New Zealand Plain English Awards: Entries are now open for the 2008 WriteMark New Zealand Plain English Awards! Kevin Milne (of Fair Go) will host the awards at a gala dinner on Thursday, 11 September at Shed 5 on Wellington’s waterfront. This will be the third annual presentation of a [...]

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How to handle Safari’s Tabs

Did you know that in Apple Safari you can combine windows into Tabs, move Tabs around, break them out into separate windows? I subscribe to the Apple Quick Tip of the Week podcast. These are short, focussed Tips presented by Apple employees, with very professional production qualities. The Tips are often interesting and useful, but [...]

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Shift the Dock

MacTips.org (no relation to my own MacTips, established more than 6 years ago ) has many diverse tips for Mac users, often for the more advanced and more adventurous. Today though they have a good, solid, practical Dock tip: MacTips user Alex Hwang submitted an alternative way to move the Dock around. Hold down Shift [...]

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