I’ve come across a problem - my main computer (a MacBook Pro) has all my music on it, and is hooked up to my iPhone. But I’ve just got a nice big flat screen TV and its connected to my stereo. So I want to be able to play music/movies I buy on [...]
In Mac Mail, I like to file all emails out of inbox when processed. But I have a huge folder tree to traverse to find where to move a messg to. I liked the right-click Move To menu, but its not fast enough.
My newly discovered solution:
1. Select message(s) to move
2. Click on the Help menu [...]
I’ve just updated the firmware on my iPhone to version 2.0.1 (after much buzz on the web about its speed improvements). The update applied fine, and my phone does seem a bit more responsive - however it throws an error regarding my carrier settings update failing each time I connect the iPhone to my computer.
See [...]
We use prototype.js and scriptaculous for a number of our sites and applications - they provide great foundations with which to build advanced javascript applications. However they can be fairly large and take a while to download.
As I’ve previously mentioned on this blog, you can get pre-shrunk versions of both prototype and scriptaculous which [...]
The 3 mobile network is trying to convince apple to let 3 sell the 3G iPhone in Australia. They have launched a new website, three.com.au/iphone, which is now live and allows you to register your interest in the iPhone on 3.
If you’re a 3 customer (like me) then head there and register your interest and [...]
I often want to capture a flash video and store it on my harddrive for later access. This can be rather fiddly to get working, so I’ve enlisted the help of a handy Firefox plugin called Download Helper. This great little plugin finds all the flash movies on a webpage and provides a right-click menu [...]
Steven Jobs announced today at the WWDC KeyNote presentation that the second generation of the iPhone will include 3G support, GPS and retail for $199US. I attended the KeyNote presentation and the announcement and the features of the iPhone are amazing, particularly when some of the games and 3rd party applications were demonstrated.
The following is a simple guide to help you setup Mysql replication - a fantastic way to ensure you have an up-to-date backup of your production databases.
This guide only describes a single master-slave relationship, however you can use mysql in various modes which include additional slaves as required.
Udi Manber, the VP of Engineering in Google’s Search Quality team has a very interesting post about the Search Quality Team (the guys responsible for the ranking of results in Google searches).
I’ve often wondered how google ranks results, and whilst they don’t tell you specifically, the post offers an interesting insight into the inner workings [...]
As a developer, it is really important to have a reliable code repository. I use SVN (subversion) for all my projects and have been looking around for a decent way of outsourcing the repository - I want it accessible to all my staff all the time, it should also be secure and redundant.
We have [...]
Opera released Opera Mini 4.1 yesterday, which is an update to their very handy free mobile phone browser service. As previously noted, Opera Mini is much faster than regular browsers on your mobile, as it actually redirects your requests to Opera’s servers which then compress the pages so they display better on your phone.
This latest [...]
The team working on Firefox 3 have released Beta 5 today for download. From their release, “This milestone is focused on testing the core functionality provided by many new features and changes to the platform scheduled for Firefox 3.”
I’ve been using Firefox 3 (Beta 4) for a few weeks now and have been very impressed, [...]
Google Australia today released gDay, a new search function that allows you to search for tomorrows news today. They have a press release here. Looks pretty amazing and promises to help you find out Football scores before the game is played:
Gotta love the start of April.
I came accross an Adium plugin today that allows me to show my Skype contacts in my Adium contact list. Hooray! You still have to be running Skype, but it saves you a bit of real estate on your desktop as you only need one contacts list open.
The plugin also works for Pidgin/libpurple so is [...]
The great guys at WordPress have announced today that WordPress 2.5 has been released. This features a huge number of upgrades and improvements, particularly to the administration side of the blogging platform. These include:
Cleaner, faster, less cluttered dashboard
Dashboard Widgets
Search posts and pages
Tag management
Concurrent editing protection
Few-click plugin upgrades
Friendlier visual post editor
Built-in galleries
The improvements are to numerous [...]
I recently purchased a new Mac and have been progressively setting it up with all my favorite Mac applications. Google Notifier for Mac is one of these, which monitors my Gmail account and lets me know when I have mail.
Unfortunately, on my new Mac I have not been able to Sign-In to my Google Account [...]
Okay, this happens to my iPod all the time and I always forget how to unfreeze it. So here are the simple instructions to reset your iPod Classic (< 5th Generation), iPod Mini and iPod Nano:
Cycle the hold switch switch a couple of times and leave hold off
Hold down the Menu and Middle Button for [...]
I am an avid mobile phone user, however I don’t yet have the joy of owning an iPhone as they haven’t been released yet in Australia (and I can’t be bothered imported a cracked one from the US). So i’ve been putting up with the usable, however limited, built-in browser on my Sony Ericsson.
Enter [...]
Safari 3.1 was released today, and I (along with many others) have noticed problems with GMail. When typing a message, if you press either the “Shift” key or the “Command” key on the Mac, focus jumps to the subject or the addresses of the message. I haven’t confirmed this behavior on Windows yet, however it’s [...]
Google today released Google Sky, an inverted version of their Google Maps/Google Earth creations. Whilst this feature has been available for a number of months in Google Earth, it has now been released as a standalone website ala Google Maps.