I’ve said time and again that I think hydrogen propulsion will be a solution only for trucks, planes and motorbikes. The reason being that batteries would be impractical in these vehicles. But at least on the latter I stand to be corrected. Have a look at this beautiful creation…. I’d say that is a very [...]
IKEA is a household name all across the World. All the World? No. Two small islands in the Pacific resist the trend. New Zealand has NO IKEA! Here in NZ we live without the cheap but quality goods. Especially Europeans miss their favourite furniture store. There are hundreds of rumours around the so-called Auckland-IKEA. It’s [...]
Google has finally started an experimental release of its offline GMail client. It uses Google Gears as you might expect. The current downside is that it is only available for US and UK customers. Since I like being a Beta tester (it hones my work skills as a tester) I’m a little disappointed. But it’s [...]
Well…. I don’t usually like to blog about them because I have nothing to say but Jan 2009 is finally a new low even for them. They have introduced a new product called Songbird (whatta name). Go to the Website and have a look. Well, have a hear & look! (Play the video on the [...]
I just have to blog about this. VirtualBox has just become awesome. The update 2.1 has added support for VMware images and it SO works! I didn’t think this would be so easy. Just create a new VM and mount the VMware vmdk. Done! For me that was always the critical issue with VirtualBox. At [...]
I’ve done my fair share of amateur photo editing. Most of it done under PhotoShop at the time. After I switched to Macs a couple of years ago I didn’t have PhotoShop anymore. Mostly because it is just too *@%#^&%@ expensive. Adobe PhotoShop Elements…well…just not right if you’re coming from PS. I tried GIMP and [...]
This is an update to the post below. I installed Firefox 3.1 beta2 and was surprised that the Send and Discard buttons in Gmail would not work when editing an email. In the Gmail v1.0 layout all would be fine. I searched for the issue but couldn’t find anyone else who had this problem. After [...]
Today’s a slow day so I decided to install WordPress 2.7 (beta 3). It’s still beta so I was a little nervous. Made a dump of my WordPress files and my database and copied all but the wp-content directory over. Well….. No problems at all! So I’m quite happy. Even my theme (Amazing Grace) and [...]
Another geeky post. Ever wondered who has what IPs? Have a look below (March 2008). This picture details who has what. Read the full interpretation here. I just find it a beautiful way to see this data. What I also see is a LOT of free space. So where’s the shortage of IPv4 addresses?! Why [...]
In my previous keyboard post I discussed what a good keyboard is. I have come to love the new chiclet Apple Keyboards. The low profile height, the right angle and low travel are ideal for me. I do understand though that they do evoke love or hate and not much in between. Because bacteria love [...]