Archives for October 2008

Make your own iPhone ringtones

As the proud owner of a new 16Gb Black iPhone (more on that in another post), this LifeHacker Tip came in very handy: Apple has introduced a simple and free way to create and sync your own custom ringtones to the iPhone using GarageBand … Read the whole (brief) Tip at: How To: Create Custom […]

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Toasters and the refreshed consumer.org.nz

Our toaster’s several years old now. It’s becoming quirkier by the day. It has a ‘toast darkness’ dial with a scale from 1 to 6. I can’t imagine anyone who could conceivably set it to 6: 1 burns the toast quite well. 6 must totally incinerate it. Our usual setting is at around 0.8 or […]

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Now we have Clickjacking to worry about

In those old, old, old humorous TV shows or movies there would sometimes be a car chase, or car rally, or similar. One of the lead cars in the race would stop at a road sign, the driver would jump out, swivel the sign to point in the wrong direction, and then drive off in […]

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Parliament may kill our Internet

Colin Jackson has written about the imminent threat to New Zealand’s Internet services, by accusations of breach of copyright, of all things. Note that word accusations. S92A of the Copyright Act, not quite, but almost written into our law, will force ISPs to pull the plug on people accused of infringing copyright. Of course, those […]

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Navigate Gmail without the mouse

The Official Gmail Blog reminds us how to quickly work through email by keyboard alone: I find a message that looks important or interesting, and open it using the enter key. If I need to reply, I hit r. Reply all? That’s a. Once my response is ready to go, tab + enter sends it […]

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Search Apple Support by serial number

The auction for my old G4 Powerbook is going well. It closes soon and there is strong interest. One bidder asked for the serial number and pointed out you can search Apple by serial number to see specifications for a machine. I wish I’d realised that before I’d listed it — it could have saved […]

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Maori macrons – a BBEdit script

Colin Jackson usefully listed out the correct codes for creating Māori macrons on the web, something that concerns all of us Kiwis, of course: Te Reo presents some difficulties to printers and web publishers … In writing, long vowels are marked with a macron, which is a diacritic appearing as a horizontal bar over a […]

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Are you from 60s Te Anau?

A friend of a friend is looking for people who grew up in Te Anau in the 1960’s and 1970’s. Especially those who grew up in an area where children were constantly drenched by crop pesticides. You see, this friend of a friend has kidney cancer. They say: Local gossip is that many people from […]

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KnowIT is moving to a new host

This should all happen behind the scenes, but I’m transferring this site to a new host on a different server. There may be some slight disruption for the next day or two, but it may all go smoothly. By 6 October 2008 if you find any problems please leave a comment below to let me […]

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Aluminium Powerbook G4 for sale

I’m still on my perpetual quest to clean up and clean out. Finally I’ve listed my old Powerbook G4 on TradeMe. The auction closes in a couple of days. All the details are there. Bid if you’re interested. Note: the machine works fine but the screen hinge is broken. I used a bookend to prop […]

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