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Paper.li

Just setup a page on paper.li which builds a customised daily paper from your twitter feed. A bit like Flipboard except for the web. My paper is here.

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FreshUndies Media Release

4th August 2011 Free dad from his saggy jocks this Father’s Day Aussie blokes can finally say goodbye to saggy jocks and holey socks, with the introduction of Australia’s first automated underwear store stocking the brands they love, freshundies.net. Launched … Continue reading

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Mac Sleep Timer

I often wanted to leave my computer on when I go to bed but don’t want it running all night – when downloading a torrent for example. Here is a quick Automator script to use on your mac to do … Continue reading

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Eclipse Settings for Mac

I’ve found Eclipse (3.5) runs really slow on Mac in recent releases. These settings seem to help somewhat. Add/Update them in the eclipse.ini file which can be found in the eclipse package on your mac. -Dosgi.requiredJavaVersion=1.6 -Xms512m -Xmx512m The ‘Dosgi.requiredJavaVersion’ … Continue reading

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Embed Google Waves

Embed Google Wave posts with the new google tool at: http://www.google.com/webelements/wave/ example below: google.load(“wave”, “1″); google.setOnLoadCallback(initialize); function initialize() { var waveframe = document.getElementById(“waveframe”); var embedOptions = { target: waveframe, header: false, toolbar: false, footer: false }; var wavePanel = new … Continue reading

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Time Machine on a Linux Share

Some time back I went through the process of configuring the Apple Time Machine backup system with my Linux based network file share. Unfortunately it is not a straight forward process but as is often the case I found a … Continue reading

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iSight Snapshot and DropBox

Ever thought it handy to be able to take a picture of whoever is using your computer?  Great for security, particularly if your laptop gets flogged. Well I’ve just uncovered a neat solution for my MacBookPro and Mac Air using … Continue reading

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