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Throwies and blinky bugs
I’ve been following the MAKE Magazine vidcast for a while, and while it’s usually pretty pedestrian, they do occasionally showcase some real gems. Recently they covered both throwies and blinky bugs....
View ArticleDownside, upside
My guitar has been sitting beside the desk here for weeks now, and while I have occasionally picked it up to play the entire five bars I can remember, it was hopelessly out of tune and until last night...
View ArticlePapa’s got a brand new bag [of strings]
While wandering Haight Street yesterday with my parents I nipped into a music store there and, finally, grabbed some new strings for my guitar. After what seemed like hours fighting with the damn...
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Photo gallery services
I recently needed to find a photo gallery service, as though I put my personal & favourite work on Flickr, I don’t necessarily want to mix in other photography I do, plus Flickr makes it...
View ArticleKeyboard autocompletes
Apparently if you get bored enough you start just playing with the keyboards installed on your iPad. Those that have the suggestion bar at the top can make some interesting ‘poetry’. You just keep...
View ArticleFlinging poo in Swift
Thanks to one of the genuine upsides of Swift, full Unicode support in the compiler itself, you can do: enum EmojiErrors: Error { case 💩 } let 💩 = EmojiErrors.💩 Finally you can express yourself...
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Rotated Windows
I’d forgotten about this until I stumbled across a reference to it again recently. This was a little hack I worked on back in 2004, with Mac OS X Tiger (10.4). Yes, kids, macOS was called Mac OS X...
View ArticleAdobe Photoshop Lightroom doesn’t support Adobe Photoshop files
I need a ‘facepalm’ category apparently. There’s been a lot of that lately. You cannot import, let-alone work on, Photoshop files (“PSB” file extension) in Lightroom. It flat-out doesn’t support...
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