Archive for June, 2009

• Upgrading one of my Wordpress blogs to 2.8 #
• Being reading up on Acer Revo Nettop. Was interested before started reading reviews, seems performance not adequate despite ION graphics #
• Took kids for bike ride, Sitting on decking with MacBook in sun, just had barbeque, Last.fm on the iPod stereo… Life pretty good today… #
• Nice web design resource (http://bit.ly/pINDA
  from @gopalraju #
• Nice collection of slick Wordpress themes http://bit.ly/IGj06 #
• Reports that new MacBooks lasting for 8 hours on single charge ! #

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• I should think 90% of email I get at home is ads of one sort or another… Must unsubscribe from some of them… #
• Links to lecture notes and exercises for the Standford Uni course on iPhone programming http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs193p #
• Excellent bus powered firewire and usb hub from Belkin for £8 http://bit.ly/wSTSZ #
• 60 Most Beautiful Apple ( OS X Leopard ) Wallpapers http://bit.ly/GIbH8 #

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• Looking for a system that allows secure file transfer. 1. Uploads file to server, 2. generates secure one time use user/password combo #
• 3. upon download using user/pass file and user/pass removed from server. Does such a solution exist ? Open source ? #
• http://www.easydocex.com/tahra.html This looks like the sort of thing I am after but I would like to host on my own servers #
• Just setting up VMWare ESXi 3.5 on HP ML110 to do some testing. Working ok so far…. ( needed to tweak bios to get SATA drives working ) #
• #followfriday @witherford Please follow … He is struggling with only 1 follower at the moment ! ME… #
• Running VMWare ESXi on small server with SATA drives is fine, but VM copies are SLOW…. #
• Installing an XP VM on ESXi server to connect to the AD server I just setup, next up Sharepoint 2007 server…. #
• Snow Leopard In Depth: Exchange — http://bit.ly/Nwsra (via @theappleblog) #
• Your eyes do not deceive you: £538.30 for a 32GB iPhone 3GS on O2 Pay & Go. (via @fraserspeirs) – Ridiculous #

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• http://twitpic.com/72k2c – Test #

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• Liking Leap from Ironic Software (http://bit.ly/11jmWu #
• Just disabled Java in Safari until Apple pull their fingers out ! #
• Having a look at Yep now, seems very similar to Leap but for PDF’s only ( http://bit.ly/11vzIF #
• Disappointing that Yep does not seem to recognise tags added to PDF’s using Leap ( both from same company ), anyone know if this is a bug ? #

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• New app: Galaxians http://is.gd/PtUu #iphone #ipod #apple (via @apple_app_store) #
• Hilarious Bud Light ad… http://bit.ly/pNfhI #

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• Searching for document management apps for OS X, looking at scanning and managing receipts/bills etc good suggestions ? #

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• Who ACTUALLY uses an Xbox 360 as a media center ? How do you listen to films with the noise the Xbox makes ? #
• Seeing more and more comparisons of Windows 7 with OS X claim that Windows is winning the battle ! Meh ! #
• 25 Best Programmer WebComic Strips http://is.gd/NvPo (seriously funny stuff) (via @nathanrice) #
• How can you claim that Windows 7 will succeed due to link with Xbox 360 as media center ? Xbox is NOT A MEDIA CENTER !! #
• Apples 5th Avenue store takes $50K an hour ! http://bit.ly/SPArH #

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