Archive for the 'Geeky Goodness' Category

Macworld 2006 keynote thoughts

Wednesday, January 11th, 2006

Once again Apple CEO Steve Jobs has taken the stage at Macworld and delivered some impressive (albeit somewhat forseen) announcements to the Mac community. The new iMac has an Intel dual core processor in it, with each core running faster than the PowerPC processor in the previous model. That makes for some serious performance.
I completely [...]


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Blogging and RSS

Monday, January 2nd, 2006

I’ve add some pages about RSS and Blogging to this site. I’ve just added an RSS feed to the Australian Herpetological Classifieds section of Reptiles Down Under, so I put a simple page up explaining what RSS is.


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New Australian copyright laws

Wednesday, December 28th, 2005

New copyright laws are apparently planned for Australia. At the moment it’s illegal in Australia to tape a TV show at home. It’s also illegal to transfer music from CDs you’ve legally purchased onto your computer or MP3 player. But Attorney-General Philip Ruddock has announced that cases such as these will be catered for by [...]


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MarsEdit roundup

Tuesday, December 27th, 2005

I’m not sure I particularly like Ecto, so I’m giving MarsEdit a go.
A few minutes later…
Well, after a couple of minutes of playing around with it, I much prefer MarsEdit to Ecto. It’s got a much simpler interface. I use NetNewsWire Lite, which is by the same developer.
I’m going to see what happens when I [...]


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Ecto roundup

Tuesday, December 27th, 2005

I downloaded Ecto, which is a desktop blogging client for Mac OS X. This means I can write and format my blog posts offline, then upload them when I get online. It should be useful for when I go into the field. I can write posts while I’m in the middle of woop woop and [...]


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My Sony Ericsson T610 phone

Wednesday, December 21st, 2005

I’ve got a Sony Ericsson T610 mobile phone. I’ve been finding recently when I’m writing SMSes that every so often the little joystick thing in the centre of the phone will fail to work. So I’ll type something, realise that I want to change something a few words back, attempt to use the joystick thing, [...]


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Moving to WordPress

Thursday, December 8th, 2005

Stewed Thoughts moves to WordPress


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