Camtasia
I had a large 40 minute video file with several demos and wanted to refer to parts of it in a presentation. That’s simple to open the file with a hyperlink but I didn’t want to be searching for the co...
A1GP
You’d think someone who’d trek across the Tasman to the Australian Grand Prix would drive a few hours down the road to the A1 Grand Prix at Taupo. You’d be wrong. For some reason A1 Grand Prix does no...
ActiveWords
Sometimes the obvious isn’t very obvious. Following thousands of blogs means I’m often leaving comments. Even responding to comments on my own blog requires the same process as readers use. It’s stand...
Religion
What is it with Hollywood and Scientology? Bad Astronomy Blog » So much for Will Smith “Scientology is such tremendous garbage it makes the Moon Hoax look like brain surgery.”
It looks lovely, but then you see at all the compromises in spec and wonder… If Apple are so smart why can’t, or won’t, they design a user replaceable battery ? I’d rather have one of these
Comedy
Video: The Lone Server via James.Random()
Cool Software
Lee LeFever’s latest video is a brilliant explaination of “ Online Photo Sharing in Plain English ”. Kiwis who use New Zealand's largest ISP Xtra, said to be 500,000, already have a "free" Flickr Pro...
Automobile
Tata seemed to pulled off a remarkable feat creating a small, efficient, relatively safe (certainly compared to a moped) and cheap ($2500) car - the Tata Nano . So why did New Zealand TV news seem...
MapInfo
SnagIt and MindManager are great authoring tools but recently I’ve been using them for something different. I’ve been getting training on a new, to me, mapping/demographics application. While they had...
Todays news of Sir Edmund Hillarys death has been reported around the world. His legendary achievements have inspired many tributes but I remember seeing, several years ago, probably the strangest ima...
I never met Ed Hillary but his life, his acts and his legacy are a part of every Kiwi’s national identity. In lieu of a portrait this image seems fitting as shows Aoraki Mt Cook which he first climbed...
RSS Bandit
Take a deep breath, then read Shaan’s recent record length single sentence explanation of why you should use RSS feeds ; I still feel the same passion for the [his] blog and read about 300 feeds...
