Archives for September 2007

Apply for a scholarship for Webstock08

Webstock is delighted to be able to offer some full scholarships to our main conference. If you win a scholarship you can: attend the two days of the conference proper hang out at the sit-down dinner and festivities on the closing night network and mingle with web professionals from all over NZ enjoy all the […]

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Mt Vic lookout upgrade

Things have been blissfully quiet around here for months now while the Council upgrade the summit of Mt Victoria. Over the weekend though it seemed to be open, so I took my camera up to see what had been going on. Apart from the carpet of broken glass, and the fairly fresh graffiti on the […]

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Read about WordPress 2.3 before you upgrade

Aaron Brazell has written an excellent round-up, with 10 Things You Need to Know About WordPress 2.3: With WordPress 2.3 to be released on September 24, 2007, I think it’s appropriate to follow the tradition and let you know about the ten things I think you should know about WordPress 2.3. It sounds as though […]

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Daylight Savings early in 2007

New Zealand is about to enter Daylight Saving Time earlier than usual: starting on 30 September, instead of on the first Sunday in October. This year those of us used to letting our Mac handle things are going to have to get our hands dirty — Apple haven’t updated our software to deal with the […]

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Animal behaviour possibly explained

Our cat, Olive, tends to be a little, shall we say, quirky! She’s the kind of cat who will come up, rub around your leg and then turn and take a chunk out of that leg. She’s at least 8 years old now, maybe older, and has always stood her ground against the new puppies. […]

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Buy A Better Finder Rename today

According to MacMinute News for today only you can buy A Better Finder Rename at 45% off (US$11 instead of $20). I bought my copy a few years ago. It’s paid for itself many times over. If you ever rename files you need this.

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Browser notes: Flock; Twitter

I’ve just added a couple of new items to the MacTips Learning Centre: Flocking to the pictures: Flock is a really good web browser — its real selling point is the way it helps you work with the new web: the social web. Tune in with Twitter: Let’s face it, developing a website is normally […]

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iPod Touch and iPhone – the social hardware

My iPod Touch is on order. Apple tell me it should ship around 28 September and I should have it by about 5 October. What I really want, of course, is the iPhone, but that’s just not going to happen in New Zealand at the moment. I want an officially approved, ‘works here because it’s […]

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Mobility dogs

I’ve seen several TV programmes from the US where prisoners train dogs for various purposes. It seems to benefit all parties: the dogs, the prisoners and the people who receive the dogs to help them with their daily living. Now, apparently, there’s talk of a similar programme here: The Corrections Department has met the Mobility […]

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Evolving FirstBite to Google Apps

In March 1997 I bought the domain name firstbite.co.nz. At the time my business was called First Bite of the Apple, because I was doing a lot of Macintosh support and training, especially for beginners. My main email address uses that domain, and has been published far and wide in various parts of the Internet: […]

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Video on the MacBook Pro (with JBL On Tour speakers)

Yesterday when I started out to wash the dishes I looked for an audio podcast to listen to while working. What I found was dozens of unwatched podcast videos, and nary an unheard audio podcast. That’s when it occurred to me that in fact I could watch a video or two on my MacBook Pro, […]

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Exploit iTunes inconsistencies

I have two big problems with playing podcasts: One track finishes and the next starts automatically. One track finishes and the next doesn’t start automatically. It’s all contextual — sometimes I’m doing a 5 minute task and want a 5 minute podcast as background. It’s a pain when I just don’t quite jump up in […]

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