Way to go Optus...
What a great idea, release some pretty decent wireless broadband plans, with a decent amount of monthly data... for 12 months. Then, after 12 months, once yo...
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Technical notes and observations from years of supporting creative businesses on Mac.
Anvil Shooting: using explosives to fire anvils -- yes, ANVILS -- into the air
Comrades, I present to you the unheralded but noble sport of "anvil launching" in which a brave athlete puts a crapload of black powder between two anvils, l...
Read post →Apple - Mac mini with Snow Leopard Server
Apple have finally acknowledged that the Xserve is rather overkill for a lot of environments where Apple computers are used. It's hard to see a 5-person desi...
Read post →Date Orders - DD/MM/YYYY, YYY/MM/DD or MM/DD/YYYY
You'll get crazy Americans that say their middle-endian date order makes more sense because, as they claim, "That's the way you say it - October 21st, 2009"....
Read post →Make: Online : Industrial robots showing off
And I, for one, welcome our new sub-millimetre precision robot overlords... Make: Online : Industrial robots showing off .
Read post →YouTube - Mark Watson takes on the Red Bull Glorious Days Project
Extreme sports photographer and Nikon Ambassador Mark Watson tells of the photographic adventure of a lifetime - capturing the spectacular Morning Glory clou...
Read post →Broken LDAP Database on Mac OS X Server
I had a client with a broken LDAP database on their OS X Server today. The power had failed and the UPS didn't do it's thing, so the power was yanked from th...
Read post →The Ad Contrarian: The Perfect Client Brief
Creative briefs from a client do not get any better than this... The Ad Contrarian: The Perfect Client Brief .
Read post →Resume: A Tale of Desire, Intrigue, and Formatting
Wow. A software developer with a strong preference for open-source tries and prefers commercial alternatives over open-source for page layout. There are some...
Read post →10/GUI - Is this the future of Human Machine Interaction?
Check this out: 10/GUI . The video gives a great overview of the concepts of 10/GUI - a new mutitouch GUI idea from R. Clayton Miller . He argues that multit...
Read post →So you think you can tell Arial from Helvetica? Quiz
Helvetica really does look quite a bit better than Arial, it's a smoother and cleaner design that is more pleasing to the eye. I scored 19/20 - the Mattel lo...
Read post →CSIRO earns $200m Wi-Fi windfall
CSIRO, having invented and patented some of the key technologies for high-speed wi-fi networking, has had their case held up in court and is on the receiving...
Read post →$10k to produce an iTunes LP?
Apparently Apple are charging artists or labels $10k to produce an iTunes LP (Album download from iTunes Music Store with cover artwork, full graphical inter...
Read post →I've tried to tech the tech, and it won't work
Interesting opinion piece by British Sci Fi Author, Charlie Stross concerning the downhill slide in scriptwriting for big-budget sci-fi TV series. To resolve...
Read post →SuperDuper!
There's a new version of the fantastic backup utility - SuperDuper! . SuperDuper is what you should be using if you're not using Time Machine, or if you're t...
Read post →The Time Capsule Memorial Register
Got a dead Time Capsule, one that's dies before it's time? Register here | Time Capsule Memorial Register . I haven't bought a Time Capsule, but having had a...
Read post →iPhone OS 3.1.2 may cure iPhone "coma" - Ars Technica
If you haven't seen it elsewhere, or haven't seen it in iTunes yet - there's iPhone software update 3.1.2 available now. iPhone OS 3.1.2 may cure iPhone "com...
Read post →Trip down memory lane with Aqua
Here's a good look back on the not too distant past, with the first public release of Aqua - it's revolutionary transparency effects, that classy pinstripe a...
Read post →Charlie's Diary: Jeff Bezos Eats Kittens
A post on why the Kindle now being sold worldwide isn't to everyone's liking - this is from the sci-fi author Charlie Stross. Basically, Amazon are screwing...
Read post →John Nack on Adobe: Image science radness o' the day
I missed this when it was originally posted, but it's worth checking out as it takes something like Content Aware Scaling to the next level: John Nack on Ado...
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