Archives for October 2007

Delivering the Leopard

When my iPod touch was delivered I had a lot of problems. Even though I was home and waiting for the package and left a note on the door still the courier took it away a couple of times because ‘no-one was home’. It doesn’t help that every doorbell I’ve ever installed stops working without […]

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Late night Leopard

When I was a kid growing up Christchurch shop trading hours were very restricted: 9 to 5.30 Monday to Thursday, and a ‘late night’ Friday till 9 pm. Banking hours were even tighter — something like 10 till 4, from memory. Over the years things changed, and now retailers even resent the occasional compulsory closures, […]

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Hell does a great pizza

I don’t often think to order pizza, but tonight was one of those times. I ‘dialed up’ the Hell Pizza website, entered my phone number and password. Once logged in, I was able to view previous orders. Handy. If I’d wanted to I could have repeated a previous order, but instead I flipped through the […]

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Support NZMac.com by buying a coffee mug and be in to win

It costs a lot in both time and money to run a busy website, and Phil Roy has spent a lot of both over the last 5 years on NZMac.com. His site is for the NZ Mac community. Since it launched I’ve seen several major upgrades and new features pop up regularly. The forums are […]

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Quickly change multiple posts in WordPress

There are a few things that I find so useful and valuable I recommend them whenever I have the chance. Occasionally those services provide opportunities for an affiliate link, like ScreenCastsOnline. Because I may earn a few cents and would recommend them anyway, I take up the offer. Then, once in a while, they change […]

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My Leopard’s on its way

Cool: We are pleased to send you this dispatch notification regarding your Apple Store order. The following products have been shipped to you. 10 MAC OS X 10.5 RETAIL FAMILY PACK-INT The Shipment Information is as follows: Shipment Date :25/10/2007 Estimated Delivery date :26/10/2007 On or Before See that On or Before? I live in […]

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$3 to make the phantom pain disappear

I’d never heard of the Ted Talks until about 6 months ago, but since then I’ve been downloading and watching a lot of the podcast episodes. In fact, I’m slowly going back through the archive to catch up on older talks. They are fascinating! A great many of them have really caught my interest, but […]

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Publish a five word summary

Summarise what your organisation does — in 5 words. Now put that in a prominent position on your website. Don’t bury it several levels down in some sub-menu. Don’t write 50 words, or 150, or 500 (though you can do that in addition to the 5 words). Visitors come to your website for many reasons. […]

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Watch the Mac OS X Leopard guided tour

Have you watched the Mac OS X Leopard guided tour yet? They show off Spaces, Quick Look, Time Machine and other new and improved features. Now I do 99.9% of my email via Gmail (and via the web interface, which shocks me) I’ve been thinking of switching to Apple Mail for the other 0.1%. The […]

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Sweeping vista: Victoria Crater on Mars

I love the Astronomy Picture of the Day (APoD) and add many of them to the iPhoto album that supplies my ever-changing desktop picture. Today’s Victoria Crater on Mars is a beauty. See it widescreen. If you add the APoD RSS feed to NetNewsWire then you can control click on any picture and choose to […]

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Avoiding your email?

If you’ve been avoiding your email, you may not be alone … Researchers from Waikato University and Wintec have found about a third of us are likely to display a “reactive response” when an email arrives at work we consider offensive, unpleasant or negative. I’m guessing here that the ‘offensive’ etc are describing the emails, […]

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Extinctions: Hector’s and Maui’s dolphins

I just listened to a Radio New Zealand interview. It pointed out that 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. Care For The Wild International say: New Zealand is home to the Hector’s dolphins, the world’s rarest marine dolphin […]

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