Archives for December 2007

Netscape dead now

It’s been a very long time indeed since I even bothered to download Netscape, and even when I did have it on my machine I never actually used it. Must be years since I really did anything at all with it. Now it’s being discontinued because apparently no-one else much is using it either: BBC […]

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Photos from Nga Manu

Nga Manu Images: A digital photo library that is part of Nga Manu Trust, a charitable trust dedicated to conservation and conservation education. It has a Nature Reserve at Ngarara Road, Waikanae. Many of the images on this site are part of a long running project to develop a pictorial record of the ecology of […]

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Books to go

I’m de-cluttering, cleaning up and cleaning out — ruthlessly. I want to dispose of around 100 books: about 50 currently listed on Bookmooch, and another 50 or so listed on the page Books to go. Some in the list on my site I’d be happy to give away; others I’d like to sell (mainly the […]

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Books be gone!

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Maria’s Guides – a great source of Mac information

Mac users should make sure to visit, bookmark, and subscribe to the RSS feed for Maria’s Guides: Maria’s Guides — Support and additional material for readers of books and articles by Maria Langer. Maria and I collaborated a couple of years ago on the book WordPress 2 Visual Quickstart Guide. That was my first real […]

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When Apple hardware is repaired

A couple of weeks ago I wrote That six feet under sound, about how one of my MacBook Pro speakers had suddenly turned to static. I booked the machine in with Toucan, who repaired it last week. It sounds sweet again now. Then an email turned up from Apple, asking me to complete a survey […]

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Applescript QuickLook

Kevin Wojniak writes in QuickLook plugin for AppleScripts: I have written a small QuickLook plugin that gives you a preview of an AppleScript script file. I followed the instructions at How to Install QuickLook Plugins and am now happily previewing AppleScripts. [Via The Unofficial Apple Weblog: Quick Look Plugin sites.]

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What’s worse than email spam? Dead tree spam.

Lifehacker Australia’s timely post, Opt out of receiving junk mail, appeared in my feed reader as I returned from our letterbox with an unwanted ‘free’ newspaper in my hand. [Name and shame: it’s The Wellingtonian.] I thought there was nothing to be done about junk mail – but I was wrong! The Australian Catalogue Association […]

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Engage Your Community in 2008

On Tuesday, 22 April 2008 there’s a one-day conference in Hamilton, New Zealand called Engage Your Community: Using Blogs, YouTube and other Cool Tools to achieve your group’s goals Do you want to know how your tangata whenua, community or voluntary group / organisation can connect with volunteers, staff, and other stakeholders more easily, immediately […]

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Heard of sheep?

Sometimes I take it upon myself to correct people, even before I realise what I’m doing, and as though I have some claim to authority. Today, in conversation with an American friend, she mentioned she’d recently seen a ‘herd of sheep’. Quick as anything I responded that it’s a ‘flock’ of sheep. Oops. [Hmmm, we […]

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Install templates for Pages 08

A year or two ago I needed to turn material I’d written for a website into a printed book. I used Apple’s Pages.app to do the work. Today I had a query from a reader about some of the finer points of using Pages.app for creating a 16 page booklet, and promised to write some […]

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