Archive for March, 2004



MacJournal can post blogs too!?

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Mostly testing here with a new way of posting to my blog. I am really enjoying MacJournal! its super cool. I am becoming a cyborg with my laptop because of it. I used to feel this way with my Palm PDA but it kept erasing its memory. Was actually quite jarring when it happened because [...]

United Diversity

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A site design I did over a year ago has finally been implemented: http://udoo.org/

Simple, pretty and clean. I like the angles
AKA How to make AAC/m4a stream in safari

AKA make AAC work like mp3
and so on 

To get this to work, you need access to upload files to a web server (duh!)

Put a .htaccess in the root or folder(directory) where your music is stored with these 2 lines:

AddType audio/x-m4a .m4a
AddType audio/x-mp4 .mp4

If [...]

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http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2375751781

I want one!!  grin
After getting stuck in the online world that is Blog, I thought I should put up some of the better links.

Insight into Microsoft Research Department

George Michael to give away future music online.

“I’ve been very well remunerated, as they say, for my talents over the years,” Michael told the BBC Radio 1 Wednesday, “so I really [...]

Spatialism

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Finally looks like open source are getting into the nitty gritties of user interface with Gnome 2.6. Its file manager, nautilus has gone spatial! There is a preview about it HERE.

Will Open Source succeed at creating a better UI that commercial products? hmmm puts a smile on my face.

If you are interested in this [...]

Water on Mars! what does this mean?

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Holy shit!

Don’t know if this is old or new but wow… I was just told by a friend online they (NASA I guess) actually got a photo of water on mars. This really is a huge historical piece of news!

Understandably, the servers carrying the photo have been weighed down so I have mirrored [...]

I’m worried about Yoda

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Yoda has been staying at my place a fair bit lately its starting to get tiresome though… after he has told all his stories (sometimes ad nauseam). “...and i said to darth, “if you don’t stop looking like that at me, i’m gonna get crazy on your arse ya weird fuck!” he just continued breathing [...]

Weird sleeper

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” Delayed sleep phase syndrome results from a disturbance between the patient’s internal biological clock and the external environment. Again, unlike jet lag, this desynchronization is not activated by travel or change in external environment. Rather, the patient’s propensity to fall asleep is simply “delayed” in relation to that of the general public. Subsequently, a [...]

desktop pic chik

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I visited this page after a friend gave me the link. I really liked the photo on there so this morning, turned it into a Desktop Picture. I just removed the URL that was on it, resized it to a size that fits on my 15” PowerBook screen and giffed it for effect. Turned out [...]



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Cris Pearson from Melbourne, Australia.
Grew up in George Town, Tasmania.

CEO, co-founder, interaction + interface + graphic
+ web designer at plasq.

We are best known for Comic Life which was bundled with Millions of Apple Macs and now the much lauded, Skitch!.

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