Application icons...

Did you know that you can grab the icons for applications, and then save them as a GIF, a JPEG, PNG or even a PDF?

Go to the Applications folder and select the application you want, right (ctrl)click and press “Show package contents”

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Installing GCC on OpenSolaris

*NEW* Click here for command line instructions, plus how to install gmake and subversion!

Are you using the new OpenSolaris, released May 2008?

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Fixing a Macbook power transformer

Just over a week ago I found that my MacBook wasn’t charging, but the charger was plugged in and on. I inspected the cable and found that it had melted just outside of the transformer!

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Down to Surrey

We left Aberystwyth today at 10:30, Tom, Steve and myself on the road to Surrey to work for Sun for a week. We stopped in Gloucester to drop off one of Tom’s mates, who’s parents had kindly made up soup for lunch, then we were off again! We had to be at our accommodation by 4:30, and we were told it could take three hours to get to Surrey from Gloucester, leaving at 2pm, we didn’t feel too confident.

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10.5.2 is out!

Today, 11th February, Apple release the second system update to Leopard. So what did we get?

As normal, there are a number of things to make the system generally more stable, these include updates to ‘Back to my Mac’, ‘Active Directory’, Networking and some other bit. One thing that I’m looking forward to is the improvements on 802.1X and general AirPort stability.

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iPod Touch

Last Saturday (2nd February) I placed a bid on an iPod Touch on eBay, £199 plus £5 for p&p, bring the total to £204. This was a two month old Touch, 16GB capacity, along with charger (£20), protective film (£15) and four socks (~£20). The 16GB iPod Touch is £270 alone on the Apple Store (at time of buying).

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MacBook Air Vs. Eee PC Vs. OQO

The MacBook Air has had much said about it. Jobs claimed it was the thinnest notebook ever, the most portable Mac ever, the Apple site declares that it is ’thinovation’. But is it really so great? I heard about OQO computers today in a lecture, and there has been talk about the ASUS Eee PC, so I went to look at these computers and compare them.

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Coding week - Day 5: Crunch Time

Up at 8 am this morning and on the bus by 8:50. Got to an empty computer room to find only one of my team members there. I sat in wait until about 9:30, waiting for team members to appear, or even just other groups…

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Coding week - Day 4

The morning started late with hardly anyone turning up on time. I spent the morning looking once again at some Postgres stuff, but gave up a little before noon.

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Coding week - Day 3

The day started by running around the Old College looking for the workstation room, after finally finding it, I settled down to work on looking around for Java with Postgres, as this was the database we are working with…Looking around the web wasn’t much help,nothing was going to be easy, especially as I’m not great with SQL.

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