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Oct
29
There is now a guide to customising BBpress over on Devlounge. This could prove handy now that I’ve started to trial BBpress on the Fulwood Methodist Church site. I have found that this forum software integrates very nicely with WordPress but the default template is, in my opinion, an awful mess of tiny fonts (‘font-size: [...]
Oct
15
One of the joys of OS X is that things tend to just work. Indeed, I remember that I spent a long time on the night we got our iMac trying to work out the printer settings before, in frustration, just pressing ‘Print’ and finding that paper came out of the printer with an almost [...]
Oct
15
Scribus: open source DTP
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Today’s NftP was the first to be produced using Scribus, the free open source DTP package that supports SVG. I have been truly impressed at the power of this application and it truly seems to me that open source software has now come of age. NeoOffice 2 knocked MS Office 2004 off my Christmas list [...]
Sep
21
No football for Mac users
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For several years now, the Football League have been offering commentary on games over the internet. I have been a subscriber to this service for a few years now and have truly enjoyed the service, despite its faults. Sadly, the operators of the service, PremiumTV appear to have little or no knowledge of reality. The [...]
Sep
15
In 2001, Kate and I made a big mistake: we bought tickets to see Depeche Mode at what was then the M.E.N. Arena in Manchester. It’s not that we dislike them, it’s just that we consequently did not have enough money to see James perform one week later at the same venue. Ordinarily this would [...]
Jun
3
2) The fact that Office builds under Xcode not a very good predictor of when we’ll ship. We’re doing a heck of a lot more in this release than just ‘making it Universal.’ Remember, we were already more than a year into the product development cycle when Steve & Co. announced the Intel switch, with [...]
Apr
4
SVG documents label templates using XML: ” SVG Document templates – Scalable Vector Graphics SVG Document templates – Version 1.0 utlilizes both SVG and XML can be viewed with Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera and other Internet Browsers supporting the SVG format. These documents are best viewed with Firefox. I.E. users, right click and use Zoom [...]
Mar
13
Lexia Readable Font @ 1001Fonts.com LEXIA READABLE has been developed for legibility from Comic Sans, but the kids comic book styling has been removed (Lexia Readable is already used by dyslexia.com).
Mar
11
[HOWTO] Flash a new Pioneer drive on a Mac – macosx.com – Mac Support [HOWTO] Flash a new Pioneer drive on a Mac I bought a new Pioneer 16X DL SuperDrive DVR-110D to a Pioneer 16X DL SuperDrive DVR-110 so it can not just read DVDRAM disks (like the 110D) but also writes to DVDRAM [...]
Feb
17
Symantec would like Mac users to start worrying about trojans and viruses. Over on MacWorld there is an explanation of how this Leap-A thing works and I must admit that I’m a little surprised to see that it does not require an admin password. However, it appears that a simple permissions change can shut this [...]
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