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  Monday, 20 June 2005

. .< 11:55:40 AM >
It's Getting Cheaper to Tap the Sun

Providing homes with electricity and heat from the sun is getting more buzz than it has in decades.
[Via New York Times: Technology]

. .< 11:50:04 AM >
Widescreen iBook rumours gain weight

Last fling for portable PowerPC-based product?

Asustek, not Quanta, will produce Apple's upcoming widescreen iBook laptop Mac.…


[Via The Register]

. .< 11:41:03 AM >
Ciudad de Mexico Panoramic on Flickr
A little reality check for days when I think it's horribly polluted in Toronto.


. .< 10:34:12 AM >
Google Maps Crap

here's a google map that is making the rounds in the Benelux. It shows Belgium and The Netherlands in the wrong spots. Belgium, is below Holland. Interestingly, when you zoom in a bit, the names are placed correctly.
[Via Adam Curry: Adam Curry's Weblog]

. .< 12:54:28 AM >
Use drag and drop to ease iCal event creation

Not sure if this is 10.4 only or not, but iCal seems to have good drag/drop support, namely:

Drag text into iCal and a new event is created with that text as the title. Ditto with a URL, but the URL of the event is also set....
[Via macosxhints]

. .< 12:47:52 AM >
10.4: How to run Carbon Copy Cloner

Tiger seems to have broken Carbon Copy Cloner (CCC) 2.3 because of some authentication issue. The immediate fix was to run it is root, but that brings its own dangers. I combined the method suggested by two forum threads at t...
[Via macosxhints]

. .< 12:45:03 AM >
Move swap to another partition, revisited again

This hint is based on several prior hints and comments published earlier (see references at the end), and is proven to work under Tiger. Before proceeding, please make sure you are familiar with the following terms: virtual m...
[Via macosxhints]

Swap partitions are back?!


. .< 12:44:00 AM >
Review: OmniOutliner 3 Professional

If you want a traditional outlining program with a great user interface that’s versatile, powerful and plays well with other applications, you’ll be hard-pressed to find a better tool anywhere than OmniOutliner 3 Pro.

[Via MacCentral]

. .< 12:39:59 AM >
New radio formats sacrifice sound quality - MSNBC.com
"Satellite radio partially solves this by giving you a huge choice of stations: Songs from every decade, genre, style and persuasion are available on both XM and Sirius services. Your choices are amazing, but what about the audio quality?"

This article is a few months old but has just crossed my radar. We might have satellite radio in Canada soon. A colleague of mine asked me if I'd heard any satellite radio (I haven't) and made some startling comments about what he had heard. He says FM sounds hi fi by comparison. Oh oh!





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