Archives for June 2007

Google tricks; Clickable URLs; Open Source Software; Check links

I’ve just added a bunch of articles to the Learning Centre: Google Search tricks Did you know Google can do more than just search? Work out currency; Calculate; Define words; Quickly search a particular site. Clickable web addresses Do people complain that links in your email messages don’t work? Using angle brackets may fix that. […]

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I made a difference

About 12 months ago I discovered that, thanks to Kiva, I could make a direct difference to the life of one woman in Kenya: I lent her a small sum of money — it represented a couple of hours of my income. She wanted to expand the range of vegetables she sold in the local […]

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FullCodePress non-profit selector

On Saturday 18 August 2007, teams from Australia and New Zealand will compete to build a fully-operational website for a non-profit organisation in 24 hours. No excuses, no extensions, no budget overruns. That’s FullCodePress, where web design meets sport! So, who chooses the lucky non-profit to benefit from a fabulous new website? Well, that would […]

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Awash in articles: WordPress, Internet, Mac and more

It’s all go around here — I can barely keep up! Today the first of my series of articles for Informit has been published: Web Design Reference Guide > Customizing WordPress: Make a Start: This series explores everything you need to do to customize your WordPress blog. Along the way, we’ll look at plugins, widgets, […]

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No drinking at the top of the hill

We live near the Mt Victoria lookout. Quite often, late at night, yahooing and general rowdiness can be heard from the top of the hill, and cars regularly do very noisy ‘donuts’ in the couple of wide, flat areas. I’m glad to see this news item: Drinking Curbed in Oriental Bay and Mount Victoria: It’s […]

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Woman and man versus machine

After 6 years of working on Communitynet Aotearoa I’ve stopped. Today. More or less. It was a contract worth about 10 to 15 hours per week recently, although 6 years ago it started as about 5 hours per week. I approved (or not) notices submitted by community groups, wrote and distributed a monthly newsletter, handled […]

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Mac or PC: The Rap

This YouTube video is great! Visit Gizmodo: Clips: Mac or PC: The Rap.

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Television NZ on YouTube

Television NZ now have their own channel on YouTube: youtube.com/tvnz. [Via Rod Drury: TVNZ and YouTube.] While I’ve had a look via the web (old favourite the Goodnight Kiwi appears on the channel’s front page), I haven’t been able to locate the channel or the videos yet on YouTube on my Apple TV. There are […]

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Magnum Mac go to Renaissance

Last year the real Apple moved into New Zealand and broke Renaissance’s stranglehold on the sale of Macs in this country. Prices dropped instantly, we gained an online Apple Store, and it felt as though we could at last breathe. One of the problems with buying anything in this country is that customer service seems […]

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Writing’s easy

Writing easy. It’s cutting out the cr*p that’s hard!

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Mac email clients

I’ve been using Eudora ever since I started using POP email, which must have been back in about 1993, I think. I love the program, its power, its flexibility. In fact, for 5 years I wrote weekly Eudora Tips, still available at MacTips. Email’s very important to me: I send and receive a lot of […]

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Live Earth on 07/07/07

SOS | Live Earth | 7.7.07: Live Earth is a 24-hour, 7-continent series of 9 concerts taking place on 7/7/07 that will bring together more than 100 music artists and 2 billion people to trigger a global movement to solve the climate crisis. Live Earth will reach this worldwide audience through an unprecedented global media […]

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