Monthly Archives: June 2005

Quinn

Posted on June 29, 2005 by smsm1986

There is a clone of tetris built specifically for Mac OS X, with networking. The game is called http://www.stud.tu-ilmenau.de/~siha-in/thesoftware.html Quinn.

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Blogger

Posted on June 22, 2005 by smsm1986

So you can use email to blogger!

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X11 Forwarding on Mac OS X Client

Posted on June 16, 2005 by smsm1986

For those of you who might be wondering how to enable X11 forwarding, like I was. A quick Google search came up with a couple of Developer articles.

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Vital Flaw inroad pricing plan from Darling

Posted on June 13, 2005 by smsm1986

I’ve had another letter published in the Evening News

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Automator PDF workflows

Posted on June 10, 2005 by smsm1986

WARNING: If you are using a PDF Workflow from the Print sheet, then you may have a problem with permissions with the generated PDF. Essentially, your web server won’t see it as world and group permissions are set to nothing.

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Spotlight behind dashboard

Posted on June 10, 2005 by smsm1986

That’s weird, after activating dashboard, press cmd+space for spotlight. You can search away and open results, behind dashboard.

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PDFs not opening in Firefox

Posted on June 8, 2005 by smsm1986

I’ve just noticed that Firefox isn’t opening PDFs internally. I suppose that old PDF plugin is still of some use.

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Mintelac

Posted on June 8, 2005 by smsm1986

Going by ThinkSecret, the Intel macs are using a different build from those of us on the PowerPC machines. Will this change in the future??? If the build numbers end up the same, it will prove that they are using … Continue reading →

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Edinburgh City Centre

Posted on June 7, 2005 by smsm1986

Lothian Buses have come out with a leaflet detailing the changes from the 19 June 2005 regarding the City of Edinburgh Council’s so called Central Edinburgh Traffic Management Scheme (CETM). There will be even MORE buses on Princes Street. Grrr. … Continue reading →

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OpenOffice 1.9.107 Mac OS X

Posted on June 7, 2005 by smsm1986

I have installed eric b’s latest build of OpenOffice. Seems to be working better. Not done any great testing in it.

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