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Stephen Fry on the iPhone

Stephen Fry: I have been using an Apple iPhone now for more than four months. This is due to an unhealthy mixture of friendship with its designer, a slobbery and pathetic love of the new, the possession of an American … Continue reading

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Install PostgreSQL on Ubuntu 7.10

If you are using the latest version of Ubuntu (8.04 - Hardy Heron), you might find these slightly updated instructions useful. This quick walk-through are my notes for installing the PostgreSQL database server and the PgAdmin administration application on Ubuntu … Continue reading

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EVE Online for Mac/Linux on Tuesday

Ohhhh, I always fancied looking at EVE. Now all I need to do is get the PhD thesis out of the way and I might have enough time to look into it. The official EVE Online site has details of … Continue reading

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And the Fastest Vista Laptop Is…

I just love articles like this… The fastest Windows Vista notebook we’ve tested this year is a Mac. Try that again: The fastest Windows Vista notebook we’ve tested this year - or for that matter, ever - is a Mac. … Continue reading

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Adding/Deleting Rows in TableKit Tables Revisited

TableKit is a great javascript library for making your HTML tables fully editable. However, one problem is that you can’t add or delete rows from the tables… I came up with a solution to this not so long ago, but … Continue reading

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Apple Wireless Keyboard LED at 40x Magnification

You know… I HAD been wondering this!!! Ever wonder how the power LED shows through the aluminum of Apple’s new wireless keyboard when it’s on, but blends into the metal when it’s off? Here’s how. more via

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It’s Official - iPhone SDK Coming Soon

Great news! Straight from the horses mouth, (well, Steve’s anyway) Apple have announced that an iPhone SDK will be coming in February. Let me just say it: We want native third party applications on the iPhone, and we plan to … Continue reading

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X-Wing Launches, Falls Apart…

Oh dear, the rocket-powered X-Wing that was revealed last week never made it past launch day… It did get off the ground quite impressively though. Here’s a video of the launch.

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Rocket-Powered X-Wing Model!

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