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Friday, April 13th, 2007I laughed. I know, I'm a geek.
Archive for April, 2007
I laughed. I know, I'm a geek.
Google Checkout arrives in the UK
Friday, April 13th, 2007The Official Google Checkout Blog reports that Google Checkout has arrived in the UK. Via Mashable
Peril Sensitive Sunglasses
Thursday, April 12th, 2007Engadget reports on DARPA developing peril sensitive sunglasses. Oh wait, I mean threat sensitive binoculars. Sorry, my other head is really hungover from a few too many pan galactic gargle blasters.
Adding Accent Marks to Characters in OS X
Wednesday, April 11th, 2007Thanks apple for this great reference on adding accents to characters on your os x 10.4 mac (the instrutions are similar for other versions of OS X) which really helps if you are writing French, Italian, Spanish, etc on a US, UK or International keyboard. The article explains how ...
Create freeform tag clouds from any text with TagCrowd
Wednesday, April 11th, 2007TagCrowd allows you to create a tag cloud from any text source. My good friend Paul gave the excellent suggesting of trying this out with a plain text version of your CV.
CakePHP without mod_rewrite
Wednesday, April 11th, 2007In order to use the CakePHP framework (version 1.2 alpha) without mod_rewrite you must uncomment the line in /app/config/core.php that looks like this: define ('BASE_URL', env('SCRIPT_NAME'));
OS X Terminal Prompt showing a different name to the Computer Name
Tuesday, April 10th, 2007My mac terminal came with a default prompt which looked like this: Vigor:~ pete$ I had changed my computer name to something I preferred, which works fine for browsing to your own apache server, but this did not have any effect on thebash prompt. I also wasn't (yet) interested in ...
HTML 5
Tuesday, April 10th, 2007HTML 5: here we come. I think this is a great move by Opera, Mozilla and Apple. Obviously no one really expects Microsoft to be able to, you know, play well with others.
Beefy Font
Thursday, April 5th, 2007This looks like it might have passed it's sell by date, but it sure is a beefy font from Robert Bolesta.
Device Media Is Write Protected
Thursday, April 5th, 2007Having recently bought usb memory key I was having trouble getting it to mount correctly on my Windows machine at work. It would occasionally return a 'device media not recognized' error on insertion, and sometimes would seemingly mount but never display in My Computer. I downloaded the HP ...