Archive for the ‘technical’ Category
Monday, November 3rd, 2008
When listening to music I generally listen to whole albums, played start to finish, rather than individual tracks. I find that, unlike for some other media, a great deal of satisfaction in listening to music comes from the expectation and gratification of knowing what is to come, so while ...
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Sunday, August 17th, 2008
It is possible to Cmd-tab out of EVE Online's Mac client to the desktop, using the key combination's normal function to change application focus. I have found that occasionally the Cmd key seems not to be recognised when doing this and instead the client only collapses all open informational ...
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Wednesday, August 6th, 2008
I don't play CDs that often any more, instead generally listening to my old third generation iPod, plugged in to my A/V system, playing all of my music on random album play. It is nice to be able to interrupt the iPod's playlist without losing its place by using ...
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Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008
I recently received another reminder that my hosting service was overdue for payment, having ignored the previous reminder. As my frustration was short-lived and I realised I bore no ill-will to the company, and that judging by the status reports their support service appears to have returned to the ...
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Wednesday, July 9th, 2008
I wrote before about how the keymapping for screen grabs in EVE Online is locked but makes no sense for the Mac version. The only solution I found was a general hint simply referring to the in-built screen grab mechanism in OS X, which is to hit Cmd-Shift-3.
I already ...
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Wednesday, July 9th, 2008
I find it amazing that a new, professional site has the following message on a main page:
Please ensure pop-up blockers are turned off for this domain.
People block pop-ups partly because of advertising abuse, but I imagine it's increasingly because the popularity of tabbed browsing allows the user control of the ...
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Friday, June 6th, 2008
A few months back I was having trouble with UKFSN, my hosting provider at the time. Part of the trouble was not being billed for my hosting account, which, along with other problems, pushed me to move my hosting package to Memset instead. I sent a couple of ...
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Thursday, June 5th, 2008
Switching from the EU server to the US server in City of Villains meant I had to fiddle with my game installation a little bit. At least, it would have meant a bit of fiddling had I been running Windows. Instead, as I am running Crossover Games on ...
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Wednesday, May 21st, 2008
My DVD player was getting lazy. Whenever I asked it to wake up and play a disc it would often hit the snooze alarm and sleep a bit longer. Sometimes it would hit the snooze alarm many times, not waking up for ages. It was quite frustrating. ...
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Monday, May 12th, 2008
I found a new bit of functionality on my iPod Touch at the weekend. I was turning on the wireless connection so that I could check my e-mail without needing to power-up my desktop machine. To save power, I keep wireless turned off until I need it, and ...
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