Entries from November 2007
Upgrading to OSX Leopard broke my Desktop Background settings. This might seem minor but it annoyed the hell out of me. All I wanted to do was add a simple directory of custom background images.
The entry for my custom backgrounds went missing from the Desktop & Screen Saver Preferences pane. [...]
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Tags: · Computers, Howto, Macintosh, Software
[WARNING: James reports (thanks James!) that Rogers charges $0.03 per kilobyte of data if you don't have a data plan. That works out to $30.72 per megabyte, so please be careful when using this information!]
You've finally got your shiny new iPhone onto Canadian soil and have unlocked it via some nefarious method we [...]
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Tags: · Canada, Computers, Gadgets, Hacking, Howto, iPhone, Technology
In October of 2003 I was obsessing over building a nixie tube clock. Proving conclusively that I have a tendency to carefully painfully prolong decisions about frivolous purchases, I have obtained such a device a mere four years later.
Finding well-designed build instructions that weren't an obvious electrocution risk turned out to be more of [...]
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Tags: · Gadgets, Hardware, Nostalgia, Reviews