Category Archives: Software

Cimy Header Image Rotator and a Twenty Ten Child Theme

Posted on 1 August 2010 by Himself

The previous post about rotating the header images in the Twenty Ten theme has been quite popular

but it was bad advice because as soon as you update your WordPress and/or theme files your changes are overwritten and lost. The … Continue reading →

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GameSalad and the iGoD

Posted on 18 July 2010 by Himself

Note: This will require the GameSalad plugin to be installed to work – and then it is probably only good with Safari on a Mac!
Experimenting with the GameSalad game creation software. It is still a beta version and has crashed … Continue reading →

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Cimy Header Image Rotator and the Twenty Ten Theme

Posted on 29 June 2010 by Himself

With the recent arrival of the very wonderful WordPress 3 comes a neat new default theme called Twenty Ten which you are now looking at. Within the theme’s clean and simple layout there are plenty of options for tweaking for … Continue reading →

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Me (not) Mobile?

Posted on 30 May 2010 by Himself

Have just enjoyed the 60 day trial of Mobile Me. Having a house full of Macs which will be joined, I do not doubt, at some time by an iPad all that syncing and sharing stuff is just the job. … Continue reading →

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Oh, the humanity!

Posted on 1 October 2009 by Himself

A launch party for Windows 7W seems like a great idea :-/

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Snow Leopard / Time Capsule Working!

Posted on 10 September 2009 by Himself

Having added a Time Capsule to the mix of Macs it was somewhat frustrating to find my Snow Leopardified Mac was not working while ye olde iBooks running Leopard were purring away backing up flawlessly. I was stuck in … Continue reading →

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Snow Leopard

Posted on 30 August 2009 by Himself

It is interesting to note the varied experiences with Snow Leopard. For what it is worth my installation time was 43 minutes. A single disc and a couple of clicks affair – if I had a five year … Continue reading →

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Itching to programme?

Posted on 2 August 2009 by Himself

Someone asked yesterday how to make sprites move up and down when using Scratch. I have not done anything with Scratch for a while so I was inspired to download the latest version and give it a whirl.
Scratch was … Continue reading →

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Library Books software for Gloucestershire

Posted on 2 August 2009 by Himself

Harold Chu’s Library Books software for Mac OS X tracks your borrowings and reminds you when they need returning/renewing. I had messed with an earlier version but never managed to get it to connect to the local library … Continue reading →

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The last train to Pleasantville

Posted on 26 July 2009 by Himself

After seeing Pleasantville on TV last night I was planning a trip there but I just missed the special train today….

That’s what happens when you spend too much time messing with Final Cut

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