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Entries from January 2005

Greatest OS X Applications

January 31st, 2005 · No Comments

The Top 100 OSX Applications list is now at htt…

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The Best Windows Freeware Utilities

January 28th, 2005 · No Comments

Some of this list is good, some of it is based on popularity rather than experience. AVG for example, while this is a free antivirus tool it isn’t very good at cleaning out a virus. Avast! is much better at this, and that is also free. Use Avast!.
Despite this I found some useful snippits off [...]

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Validation Required for Windows Updates

January 27th, 2005 · 2 Comments

Microsoft: No licence, no Windows updates
No more downloads from Microsoft unless you validate your copy of Windows.
I guess we all knew this was coming, Microsoft have been trailing this for a while; for example the Anti-Spyware download was for validated users only.
The majority of the Windows out there are not bought versions, they are copies [...]

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Handy Tools

January 27th, 2005 · No Comments

Brilliant Button Maker by LucaZappa.com
CSS Rounded Box Generator
I’m involved in the creation of a small PHP program that will be useful to bloggers, myself and York are coming up with the specs, he’s coding the PHP and I’m doing the front end, the CSS.
It’s coming pretty well now and I will have it working here [...]

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The Tao of Mac - HOWTO/Switch To The Mac

January 25th, 2005 · No Comments

I’ve been meaning to write ‘Windows to Mac’ guide for ages. There is some stuff out there so it has never been high on my agenda. Unlike backup information on OSX, almost none was around so I wrote a guide for that ages ago. This probably needs a revision by now but here is the [...]

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Kong is King.net

January 25th, 2005 · No Comments

Kong is King.net | King Kong | Peter Jackson’s Production Diary
Take a look through this official King Kong site, this is - in case you are living under a rock perpetually - Peter Jackson’s (LOTR) new movie.
This is a great site with loads of background ‘making of’ movies for download. I love the way Jackson [...]

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Spring Cleaning - Technorati Tag Cleanup

January 24th, 2005 · No Comments

Posts are out of there correct categories right now because I’ve changed the categories around.
I’ve renamed the following:
Blogging to Blog
IT-Apple to Apple
Creative to Writing
news - Current Affairs
Anime-Manga-Japan to Anime
I’ve added three new categories:
Books - so I can ramble on about what I read
Links - to set apart my small link posts
Holiday - entries about or [...]

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ASCII Generator

January 24th, 2005 · No Comments

ASCII Generator
I’ve been having fun with the ASCII generator. My favorites are linked here; a lot are not very readable, I used these ones as they made good banners in text files.

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