Archives for January 2009

Sanctuary street appeal

The Karori Sanctuary is a fabulous place to visit. They conserve and preserve New Zealand native birds and flora, along with tuatara, weta and other life forms. While they charge entry, sell books and posters, and encourage memberships, they still need more funding for their projects. Their street appeal on 5, 6 and 7 February […]

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Battlestar Galactica: my problem now is to disengage

I haven’t been watching much TV lately — as in for most of 2008, and now into 2009. There are several reasons: I don’t want to watch too much — I have plenty of things to do in my life; I don’t need TV as a time-filler. Since I discovered audio and video podcasts I’ve […]

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Unnecessary light pollutes our lives

The National Geographic Magazine has an excellent article about Light Pollution: It was once thought that light pollution only affected astronomers, who need to see the night sky in all its glorious clarity. And, in fact, some of the earliest civic efforts to control light pollution — in Flagstaff, Arizona, half a century ago — […]

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Secret settings Preference Pane

While I’m enjoying some summer holiday I’ve been catching up on the most excellent ScreenCastsOnline (affiliate link) video podcast. I’ve watched about 10 episodes in the last few days, and as always there has been much valuable information to absorb. One piece of software that Don showed in the January 2009 members-only show was the […]

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Dark skies are good for us all

In the photo to the left I’ve drawn a white box around New Zealand. Although our cities contribute a fair bit of light to the night sky, it’s not that easy to find us on this NASA Earth Observatory map of city lights. Meanwhile North America and Europe shine out, along with some other spots. […]

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Perfect travel clothes

This time last month I was wandering round Honolulu. To get there I flew 1 hour from Wellington to Auckland, and then around 9 hours on to Honolulu. Check-in, waiting, security, Customs etc added probably another 6 or 7 hours. Being a person who likes to carry gadgets, along with the tickets, pen, immigration forms […]

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Solving the Photoshop reinstall glitch

When I went to reinstall Photoshop CS3 recently I discovered I’d misplaced the install disc. I have the packaging, the manual, the license numbers, the purchase receipt, just not the all-important CD. You see the last few months of last year were very busy, and in the midst of the busiest time we had carpet […]

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Mac tweaks: the little things that make a huge difference

I’d been having odd problems with my MacBook Pro: slowness, glitches, crashes, kernel panics. So a few days ago I made a second backup to a spare external hard drive, loaded the Leopard install disc and did a wipe and clean install. Then I used Software Update a few times until no more updates were […]

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Link: Sound Effects and Royalty Free Music

Soundrangers: All original royalty free sound effects and production music downloads. The world’s first and finest collection, broadcast quality sound effects and royalty free music, created for both interactive environments and traditional media. [Mentioned on the Wise Women mailing list.]

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