Archives for August 2008

Derek’s camera basics

Derek Miller has started writing an excellent series called Learn how your camera works: an introduction. I’ve struggled over the years to really come to grips with my camera. Partly it’s time, and partly it’s synthesising all the different aspects of light and aperture and shutter speed and sensitivity and so on. Somehow it’s just […]

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View ‘noname’ attachments

I receive a lot of attachments of all kinds: .doc, .xls, .txt, .zip, .jpg, .pdf — you name it. These all work just fine, and it’s wonderful that Gmail allows me to view many online with just a click, and sends some to Google Docs, if I ask it to. However, once in a while, […]

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Cassini drama via podcast

There’s a great, short video among the latest episodes of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory Video and Audio Podcasts: Video: Cassini – Four Years of Discovery. It’s roughly 50 Mb and two and a half minutes long in the format I subscribe to, but it’s also available in larger or smaller formats. Dramatic music underscores collaged […]

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At last: Movies on the iTunes Store in New Zealand

Still no sign of TV shows, but at long last the iTunes Store in New Zealand offers movies.

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Save your Login Sanity with 1Password

Passwords and forms made easy with 1Password. The Login Headache Logging in to some site or other is something I often do. Usually each site requires its own username and password — remembering them all is a huge headache. Or at least, it could be if I didn’t have a wonderful piece of software called […]

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Take it easy: Gmail search and archiving

Some days I feel as though I’m well behind the curve. Today is one of those days. I’ve been using Gmail for probably a year now as my main email channel. I also surprised myself by preferring the web interface. I seldom read emails directly in the Inbox. Most emails are filtered to their own […]

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Customise WordPress Links and Archives Pages

WordPress gives you easy to use Links and Archives pages. In fact they’re so easy to use they can be a bit confusing — try to add content in the Pages text box in the Dashboard and it’ll disappear. The trick is not to try typing in content, but instead to modify the template. This […]

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My first page – a basic HTML recipe

A grasp of some of the basics of HTML gives you more knowledge, more power and a greater ability to produce great results on a website. And the basics are not hard. If you can follow a recipe to make scones then you can use some basic HTML.

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Use Plain Text options for TextEdit when writing HTML files

If you were going to write some HTML using the Mac’s free text editor TextEdit you need to make sure the Preferences are set for plain text, not for RTF. [See My first page – a basic HTML recipe.] I suggest the following choices for the Preferences. The screenshots below are from Mac OS X […]

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Use Gmail for a personal domain name

It’s easy to buy a domain name through Google Apps as part of the Gmail setup process. In fact it’s a lot easier than buying a domain name separately and then setting up Gmail to use it.

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The Colossal Squid moves to its new tank

Happening in around 15 minutes — ie 2pm on 6 August 2008. See the colossal squid being moved to its new tank for display: Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington, NZ – Colossal Squid: The bigger colossal squid will be moved from its preservation tank into a purpose built display tank on Wednesday […]

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Wellington Engage Your Community

Back in April I was privileged to offer the keynote speech and a workshop at the first Engage your Community conference for community groups. The day was immensely popular and participants seemed to really be engaged and excited. It was certainly a buzz for me to be part of it. Now we’re offering a Wellington […]

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