robot_dave: May 2007 Archives
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Mailtags will now store its metadata in a special ”X-MailTags„ header. This makes the tags available from computers that view the message using Mail.app MailTags 2.0. You can also set an option to store the tags in clear text format so that any IMAP..
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http://harnly.net/software/letterbox/ it rearranges mail.app into three vertical columns rather than the default one vertical/two horizontal. i find it a lot better on a widescreen monitor
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There’s a bit of a hubbub about the colors on Apple laptops. It seems they’ve been claiming to display millions of colors, but the LCD displays only support 8 bits of color.
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This looks interesting although the 'home shopping network'/scam vibe is strong. Anyone checked this out?
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hmmm...
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A howto on making text appear glossy in photoshop.
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More glossy text howtos with photoshop
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some photoshop howtos
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foofbag - Apple MacBook Sleeve, iBook Sleeve, Powerbook sleeve // foofpod - iPod sleeve case (cover)FOOF!
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This shall be my new business plan.
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It has spawned numerous websites, user groups, mailing lists and Usenet topics. It has been around for decades and yet it still has uncounted adherents. It is, perhaps, the best game you can install on your Macintosh. It is Nethack.
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This seems to sum up music videos from 1984 to about 2001.
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Carbon Footprint is a measure of the impact human activities have on the environment in terms of the amount of green house gases produced, measured in units of carbon dioxide.
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Microsoft Access is unable to open some dbf files that Excel can, but Excel can't rebuild the indices if you change the field names.
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A mod of the squirrelmail package with tables and all that HTML cruft replaced with CSS tags and attributes.
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All part of my Incredible Plan, look you boyo.
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It would be nice if this could handle 220v IE/UK/HK/AUS power systems, and the logging capability is probably windows only, but how difficult can a USB datalogger be to implement under Linux or MacOSX?
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Some skins for the care and protection of portapples...
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current hdd prices in a fairly representative PC shop in the Sham Shui Po Golden Arcade. (There's about 7.80 HKD to the USD.)
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As part of some GIS work I was doing, I needed to convert lat/long to cartesian coordinates.
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- Uncertain Principles
- Crooked Timber
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- Neil Gaiman
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- Ken MacLeod
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- Contrary Brin
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- Mahalo
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- Jonathan Coulton
- David Gerrold
- Orcinus
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- Josh Marshall
- Atrios (Eschaton)
- Hullabulloo
- 43 Folders
- Wis[s]e Words: Ceci n'est pas un blog
- Wil Harris
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- Engadget
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- The Poor Man
- Creative Commons
Environental Sites
Apple News and blogs
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Photography News and blogs
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Web Comics
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