Archives for April 2007

Adsense invalid clicks

I use Google AdSense, the ads at the top of the page here, to generate a small income from the site. It pays about half my hosting costs each year. One of the entirely reasonable rules is that you don’t click on ads on your own site. The annoying thing is when you click on […]

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Mac Website reviews

Claire Rottenberg provides reviews of Mac sites (including this one): Quality Mac Websites: Sifting through the hundreds or even thousands of websites with Mac information is a time-intensive effort, so I decided to create this blog to help other Mac users with that task. I’ll be continually adding reviews of Mac websites that meet certain […]

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What’s this site worth?

Sometimes spam just gives me a good chuckle. Like this one that just arrived (a few details masked in case privacy is an issue): I work for a company called Cyyyy We are a real company located in Scottsdale Arizona…our offices are at yyyy E Via de Ventura #yyy, Scottsdale, AZ 85258 and our office […]

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Shivkumar Sharma

Back in March WebWeaver wrote about the music of Shivkumar Sharma: Shivkumar Sharma has been playing the Indian folk instrument, the santoor, for over 50 years, and his son Rahul Sharma is now a master santoor player too. Their performance is accompanied by the most amazing tabla player Yogesh Samsi, and it’s incredibly hypnotic — […]

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Be Friendly: a Code for Human Conduct

Allison at WebWeaver’s World has an interesting post today about Kathy Sierra, misogyny on the web, and the Blogger’s Code of Conduct: I have little faith that a Blogger’s Code of Conduct would, in itself, stop the nutjobs out there from doing what they do. People who are determined to go online and deliberately hurt […]

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Macs under the Southern Cross

Macs are shining below the Southern Cross these days. Not up in the skies, of course, but down here in New Zealand we have some websites and mailing lists all of our own. First on my list have to be my contribution: this blog the free free weekly Tips the MacTips Learning Centre, and the […]

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Sit back, watch and learn with ScreenCastsOnline

I’ve spent a lot of time as a teacher and trainer. When I’m not teaching others how to use their Mac or the Internet I’m often finding out the hard way for myself. I find it a great pleasure to sit back, watch and learn the easy way. I particularly appreciate it when the video […]

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Pop! gulp!

Well, something had to go… I have a few website clients who need my services for an hour or two every month, a few more who need an hour or two every six months, and sundry unpaid commitments (such as my own weekly MacTips, and this blog) that I’m not giving up. Then I have […]

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Searching the Internet on This Way Up

The other day I headed over to the Radio New Zealand building where I met with Simon Morton, host of the Saturday technology programme This Way Up. Simon had asked me to talk with him about How to search the internet (8Mb, MP3 file) for today’s broadcast. [Note: the file will only be available online […]

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Minimise sucks

I love these little tricks on my Mac — use a terminal command to change how windows minimise: The hidden effect is named ‘Suck’, it’s more attractive than the Scale effect, and speedier than the Genie effect, here’s how to activate it:… Visit Change the minimize effect in Mac OS X for instructions.

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In command of MacBook Pro keys

I did a silly thing last night and deliberately popped the two Command keys off my MacBook Pro’s keyboard, only to find I couldn’t get them back on. Uh oh. You’d probably wonder why I might remove them in the first place. The answer is that the left one offended me so I plucked it […]

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Cellphone spam call?

I’d just left a meeting today and was standing on the street waiting for a friend who was right behind me in the lift when my phone rang. I glanced at the number, but didn’t take it in: I thought it may have started with 06 — a legitimate code for Wanganui and environs. On […]

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