- (Mis)Adventures in sous-vide cookery (part one)
Friend and professional mad bastard Hugh Hancock has finally managed to get himself a home waterbath suitable for cooking in. I urge you all to learn about his progress in Cooking With Science, because it’s both informative and fucking funny.
- How to install Leopard on the eeePC
Just, y’know, in case it should ever be handy.
- A Wave of the Watch List, and Speech Disappears
A salutory warning to non-US citizens doing business on the internet – make sure you register your domain names with places that aren’t American companies, otherwise the American government may claim that their laws apply to you.
- The Met declare war on photography, houses and mobile phones.
This is just fucking stupid. I’m fine with keeping an eye out. But picking specific things to advertise as potential terrorist activity is just asking for trouble. Whoever came up with this one must be a special kind of moron.
Tag: osx
Bookmarks for March 4, 2008
- ExpanDrive
Handy mac app that’s been getting good press as a reliable means of mounting an external SFTP volume as a local drive, making it much easier to work with remote files.
Bookmarks for February 25, 2008
- Developer’s Guide – Google Chart API
This might come in handy at some future point – I’ve been working on a graph-heavy project for a client, and it would have been ace to have this available when we started.
- garfield minus garfield
They say: “Who would have guessed that when you remove Garfield from the Garfield comic strips, the result is an even better comic about schizophrenia, bipolor disorder, and the empty desperation of modern life?”
They’re right, and it’s superb. - List of Cheatsheets
Most programmers I know have one or two of these to hand most of the time. I’d like to take time to go through them, anhd work out which ones best fit my needs.
- Tip: Prevent iPhoto from opening when you plug in your iPhone – (37signals)
The camera on the phone is for quickblogging while out and about, and I email the pics I want off it so it’s a pain to have to close iphoto every time I plug the thing in. Here’s how to stop it.
Bookmarks for February 8, 2008
- Perian
I’ve been having trouble with Quicktime not playing some video encodings properly (specifically, audio free), and I’m hoping that this might fix it, because I’ve tried updating every codec I’ve got to no avail.