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Monthly Archives: January 2008
Hiding Keynote Presentations
I don’t give many presentations these days, but this is a great tip: If you give many presentations on the Mac, chances are you’re using Apple’s Keynote presentation software. One cool feature in Keynote is the ability to demo something … Continue reading
SitePoint CSS Reference
Check out the SitePoint CSS Reference - useful for anyone writing CSS. via
Is the MacBook Air THAT Bad?!?
Finally, a common sense response to all of these MacBook Air bashing articles. I admit - I don’t want one, i’d rather have a ‘regular’ MacBook or a MacBook Pro, but there are people out there that would want something … Continue reading
SPARQL Graduates to W3C Recommendation
I watched a presentation on this about 18 months ago at a conference and it looked pretty interesting - some good potential applications in the scientific field. Glad to see things are progressing. “The W3C just gave SPARQL the stamp … Continue reading
CSS Gradient Text Effect
Found this in my feeds today - genius way of making very stylish headings without resorting to image replacement. Do you want to create fancy headings without rendering each heading with Photoshop? Here is a simple CSS trick to show … Continue reading
Britain Advises Against Vista, Office 2007 for Schools
Although I do have to admit to liking MS Office (and indeed MS Office 2007 is good), I have to agree with this recommendation. There is pretty much nothing MS Office could do that OpenOffice could not do for you … Continue reading
NetNewsWire’s Now Freeware
This is great news - NetNewsWire, the best news reader on the Mac is now completely free! Not just the ‘Lite’ version anymore, but the full product! This is my default (and only) news reader on the Mac. There’s a … Continue reading
SSH Shared-Key Setup - SSH Logins Without Passwords
SSH is a great tool for remotely accessing another machine, but entering your password every time you log into a remote box can be a pain if you would like to set-up some background scripts to connect to a server … Continue reading
A Better Ls for Mac OS X
I’m a bit of a command-line freak and like to spend a fair amount of time with the terminal open… As such I like to spend a small amount of time getting the terminal set-up nicely. Other than changing the … Continue reading
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