Archive for November, 2006

Announcing Twitgit, a Dashboard widget for Twitter

November 22nd, 2006 (2006-11-22T23:08:29+0000) 8 Comments

I’ve been working for a week or so now on learning to build Dashboard widgets for Mac OSX. I’ve got one for the rather incredible Last.FM in the works, but since it’s quite complex I took time out for something simpler.

Announcing Twitgit! A Dashboard widget for everyone’s favourite Web 2.0 time-waster, Twitter.

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Gah! Mac OSX Text Render Doom!

November 19th, 2006 (2006-11-19T20:42:08+0000) 8 Comments

Right, for about a week now I’ve been having an issue in OSX whereby text is rendering very badly indeed. At random, characters are missing from blocks of text, be that in Web Pages (in Safari and Firefox) in subject lines in Mail.app, on captions on the Dock. All over. If you go [...]

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In need of new earbuds

November 19th, 2006 (2006-11-19T18:17:58+0000) 10 Comments

In which I need new earbuds for my iPod.

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A 3 pixel gripe about Parallels

November 19th, 2006 (2006-11-19T17:56:14+0000) 1 Comment

In which I complain about the look and feel and Parallels Desktop for Mac OSX.o3

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Leaders of the Free World

November 17th, 2006 (2006-11-17T10:33:24+0000) 1 Comment

Just the littlest of entries. I’ve just discovered that Elbow’s ‘Leaders of the Free World’ is a free MP3 download on Last.fm. If you’ve not heard the title track from one of last year’s albums of the year, go download now!

Leaders of the Free World on Last.FM.

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