Michael Leibowtiz and Christian Lohmaier have finished the bug fixing with the sending of buildbot slave results from the build master to the tinderbox. This now means that EIS has up to date buildbot results too (except from the bots attached to the old build master). This now means that the Mac OS X Intel… Continue reading EIS and tinderbox now show buildbot builds
Month: May 2007
Google Maps has new “Avoid Highways” option
Google Maps now has a great route planning feature called “avoid highways”. This produces routes that don’t go on to motorways and some trunk routes, such as the Edinburgh City Bypass, where cyclists are not allowed. It still isn’t perfect for cyclists as it doesn’t allow for someroads that cyclists are not allowed on. However… Continue reading Google Maps has new “Avoid Highways” option
Cycling: Edinburgh Critical Mass
Yesterday I cycled in the Edinburgh Critical Mass. The idea about Critical Mass is to raise awareness of cycling. A large group of cyclists just get together and cycle around a city as a group. It is completely unorganised except the starting location and time. No route is planned in advance. Anyone in the group… Continue reading Cycling: Edinburgh Critical Mass
Cycling: Edinburgh to Dunbar
On Wednesday I cycled about 36 miles from Edinburgh to Dunbar in just over 2 hours. The tail wind and my significant amount of recent cycling helped with the short duration. I lazily took the train back. From 20070523Edinb… From 20070523Edinb… Map of ride (no track points between Dunbar station and Edinburgh Waverley station).
Someone has a sense of humour at Google Maps
I thought I would checkout how I would get from Edinburgh to the WWDC in San Francisco. Head over to Google Maps, and search from Edinburgh to San Francisco. Take a look at item 41, which is 3,462 miles long. (Is anyone up for the swim?)
Carbon Apps produce preference files without developers doing anything
This evening I was speaking to Yvan Barthélemy (ybart on IRC) over IRC, when he pointed out something interesting about the preferences for the Aqua port. Even so the aqua port hasn’t specifically done anything to do so, Mac OS X has created the preferences file org.openoffice.script.plist. This contains information such as the last used… Continue reading Carbon Apps produce preference files without developers doing anything
Blogger now auto saves when writing blog posts
Google have now added a long needed feature to Blogger Blog post creation. This is auto saving of Blog Posts, which is done pretty much the same way as Google Mail. This is much better than the old way of saving drafts of blog posts, which meant that on saving the draft you had to… Continue reading Blogger now auto saves when writing blog posts
New macport OpenOffice.org meta user
At today’s Mac Port meeting, Eric Bachard created a new meta user, macport, on the OpenOffice.org web site. This meta user is to be used for all unassigned issues relating to the Mac Port of OpenOffice.org. It is now the default owner of Mac Port issues. This means that the default owner for issues is… Continue reading New macport OpenOffice.org meta user
Scotland’s new First Minister
Alex Salmond is now the First Minister of the Scottish Parliament. There were 4 candidates in total: Annabel Goldie (Conservative), Jack McConnell (Labour), Alex Salmond (SNP), and Nicol Steven (Lib Dem). The 2 Greens voted for the SNP leader to become First Minister. All the other parties voted for their own party leader. Votes were:… Continue reading Scotland’s new First Minister
OpenOffice.org Aqua screenshots
Today I thought I would give you a sneak peek at the upcoming OpenOffice.org Aqua. I have 2 quick screenshots for you. First up is the OpenOffice.org Writer window after resizing, with a native Mac menu bar. From OpenOffice.or… Second is a menu. You can currently use both cmd or ctrl to activate the menu… Continue reading OpenOffice.org Aqua screenshots