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Nano big at Shinjuku station

Posted on 29 December 2008 by Leefe

As you leave Shinjuku station via the west exit you can’t but notice the mass of advertising for Apple iPod Nano. The rise between the pedestrian level and the ceiling has a ring of iPod advertisements (pictured below). And many … Continue reading →

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Beijing Olympic Medal Count (BOMC 0.4)

Posted on 13 September 2008 by Leefe

Seeing at the Paralympic are now on I have updated the BOMC widget to display their medal results. I’m in the process of rewriting the backend of the widget (seeing as this is an experiment of using JQuery in Widgets), … Continue reading →

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Beijing Olympic Medal Count (BOMC 0.3)

Posted on 22 August 2008 by Leefe

It may be a little late, considering the Olympics are almost over, but I thought people might like it anyway. Here is a widget I wrote to display the medal count at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Since there is no … Continue reading →

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Download Xcode at 3000+ KB/sec

Posted on 12 June 2008 by Leefe

Yes, you read that correctly. I downloaded the Xcode 3.0 disk image at an average of 3000 KB per second. So the 1.1 GB file took less than 6 minutes. Ah the joys of having an optical link. Now if … Continue reading →

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OfficeOpenXMLConverter gone AWAL

Posted on 20 October 2007 by Leefe

404 error Ah, the joys of the new Word 2007 docx format. Had someone sent me a docx file today and needed to work out how to open it on a Mac. A quick search in Google found me the … Continue reading →

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Y, sometimes, X doesn’t mark the spot

Posted on 24 July 2007 by Leefe

Been having trouble getting X Windows forwarding to work from my Mac. It used to work, but hasn’t worked for a bit. Turns out that from Mac OS X 10.4 stuff was changed and the ssh ‘-X’ flag doesn’t work … Continue reading →

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TV online in Australia, legal or otherwise

Posted on 10 March 2007 by Leefe

I noticed an article in the Sydney Morning Herald[1] suggesting that Apple iTunes will finally have downloadable TV shows in Australia. Apple is playing it down as just rumours, but iTunes 7.1 does add the ability to restrict downloaded shows … Continue reading →

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New iPod ad.

Posted on 4 May 2006 by Leefe

Camera sweeps threough a cave full with rubble. Centres on a metal cage and zooms in on two people inside. Covered in dust you only see two silhouettes. White cords run from their ears to small white boxes. A voice … Continue reading →

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Web sites that work even better than they look!

Posted on 5 October 2005 by Leefe

I’m not really sure if I believe the message on the site of WebMastery: Web sites that work even better than they look! One line on a plain green site that hasn’t been up dated since ‘Wed, 11 Jul 2001 … Continue reading →

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Buzzle in the news again

Posted on 15 September 2005 by Leefe

Buzzle, the failed merger of 80% of the Australian Mac resellers, is in the news again 5 years after they went splat. Apparently the Buzzle liquidator is suing Apple for for contributing to the companies colapse. Article in the Australian

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