software

When Edit is right before your eyes

One of the most consulted apps on my iPhone is Peter Watling’s WeatherNZ. It tells me the weather forecast, shows me the current situation, and most importantly tells me the tides so I know the best times to take the dogs for a walk at Lyall Bay. With a recent update he added in information [...]

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VisualHub makes an impression

Heh. I’m just installing VisualHub as I want to suck in some movies from a DVD to watch on my iPod. I’ve used it before and it works well but somehow it wasn’t installed. You know how when you open a disk image they often have the application icon, and an icon for the Applications [...]

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Virtual Telescope needs Macs with Windows

I was getting my hopes up about Microsoft’s new Virtual telescope — I’m fairly sure I recently saw a presentation about it amongst the TED Talks podcasts I download. As I recall, it looked pretty fabulous. (Ah, yes: Roy Gould & Curtis Wong: WorldWide Telescope) Microsoft has launched WorldWide Telescope, a free tool that stitches [...]

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Try Open Source Software

Open Source software is more collaborative, and anyone with programming skills can see how it’s put together, contribute code, improve on what’s there, add features they think are missing. Because it’s wide open, it is generally available free of charge. Your computer probably came loaded with a bunch of software, and then maybe you bought [...]

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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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Stellarium; Satellite Tracking

Stellarium is an open source desktop planetarium for Mac OS X, Linux / Unix, and Windows.

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