Archives for June 2008

Vodafone now allow you to register interest in the iPhone

Spanishmanners kindly pointed out: if you search for “iphone” on the vodafone site you now get a form to register your interest. The form collects your contact information and tells us: The iPhone you’ve been waiting for. Coming July 11. Register your details here so you can be one of the first to get all […]

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Dextre at work

The Astronomy Picture of the Day is always worth viewing. Today Dextre the Robot presents a really cool image. Visit APOD: 2008 June 11 – Dextre Robot at Work on the Space Station to see it at a much more impressive large size. I’m not sure exactly why this one catches my interest so much. […]

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Spotting the Space Station, from somewhere on Earth

The Space Station is growing bigger and brighter with each mission by the Discovery. When the Discovery is docked or nearby there are spectacular opportunities to see them as they orbit the Earth. The folks at Satellite FlyBys have been kind enough to set up a web page where you can find out when and […]

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Apple iPhone 3G – July 11 – Vodafone NZ

Ah, finally something resembling information about the iPhone from Vodafone NZ: … the highly anticipated iPhone 3G will be available in Australia, Italy, New Zealand and Portugal on July 11 [waffle, waffle, blah, blah] very excited [waffle, waffle, blah, blah] excited [waffle, waffle, blah, blah] … Australia, Italy, New Zealand and Portugal will be the […]

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Apple confirms iPhone 3G for New Zealand; Vodafone: ‘buzz off’

Apple Store (New Zealand) finally has information on the iPhone 3G, announced by Steve Jobs this morning: And just like the original iPhone, it combines three products in one — a revolutionary phone, a widescreen iPod, and a breakthrough Internet device. It’ll be available through Vodafone from 11 July, apparently, though to look at Vodafone’s […]

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New(ish) Mac links for Kiwis

Mark Webster, former editor of NZ Macguide magazine and now a freelance Mac trainer in Auckland writes a column for the NZ Herald: Mac Planet. There’s only one article there right now, but keep watching for more Mac news. As a long-time Mac user (since 1989) and editor of New Zealand’s only dedicated Mac magazine […]

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Family dynamics and the training collar

We have 3 cats and 2 dogs. Sometimes it seems like a lot of ‘people’ to manage, as of course each has her or his own character and quirks. Recently we’ve had to resort to some pretty stern measures to achieve harmony. Olive has lived with us the longest. She used to live with our […]

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Use Tab in Finder windows to select by name

Rob Griffiths is a mine of most excellent Mac tips, such as this one, that I’d never come across before in all these many years of using Macs — A file selection trick for Finder windows: When you press Tab, the Finder will automatically select the next file in the current folder based on sorting […]

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Google Webmaster Central Blog explains the Robots Exclusion Protocol

The robots.txt file is very handy for tuning up how and if search engines visit your site. The Official Google Webmaster Central Blog has a handy chart that shows just what you can and can’t do to keep the search engines out, in their post Improving on Robots Exclusion Protocol: … there are some cases […]

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