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2007
17
Aug
Over the last few days I’ve been reading the wonderful TextMate documentation in parallel with James Edward Gray II’s excellent TextMate: Power Editing for the Mac. One of the (very few) shortcomings of TextMate is a distinct lack of many of the Emacs modes I’ve grown to rely on when working on GNU Software.
Unquestionably, [...]
2007
5
Jun
I recently bemoaned the lack of PKI support in Google Mail, only to be proven wrong when I happened upon the FireGPG project this morning: A firefox extension that uses an external GPG binary to handle ASCII armoured email signatures and encryption. The embedded ASCII armoured signature flavour involves adding a block of text [...]
2007
3
Jun
In case you’ve been living under a rock for the last few days, Google Gears is creating a wave of excitement across the intertubes. It’s a new open source beta browser plugin for Firefox and IE (Safari and Opera to follow) that provides javascript APIs to allow disconnected use of web applications. Once [...]
2007
4
May
Now that I have around 1000 albums stored in iTunes, I’ve been trying to figure out how to sort on multiple columns.
When I organised my CD and LP collections, I would keep them alphabetised by artist, and then by date within artist. So if I wanted to play the latest Megadeth album, I could [...]
2007
22
Apr
I’ve been pretty annoyed about how dire my Motorola V3i phone is for several months now, although I did manage to work around one of the phone’s stupidities: Although the phone knows the time and date when you use it to take a picture, rather than set the timestamp correctly in the metadata, it just [...]
2007
20
Apr
At the impressionable age of 14, I still remember being laughed at by teachers and classmates alike when I selected my exam options, because I had elected to take ‘Shorthand & Typing‘. Unfortunately, I never was allowed to attend that class, because it was “for girls“. I spent the next 10 years picking [...]
