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Literature Map: Results for Neil Gaiman Try out the Literature Map to find authors who you might like – type in the name of an author and it will give you a cloud of names to try, who should appeal to you. Not so many entries for non-English writers unfortunately. World Mapper: . . . → Read More: “Mapping” on the web OS X drivers and utilities for your Dell Latitude X1 I don’t imagine this offer will be up for very long, but at the moment if you want to try running Apple’s OS X operating system on a Dell Latitude laptop, just drop in and download the neccessary drivers now! (Discovered at . . . → Read More: Grab your OS X utilities for your Dell Laptop while you can American Typewriter (left) compared to Rockwell Yes, this site has been around for a year or so, but it is still handy if you want to compare how 2-3 typefaces appear on the screen: Typetester. Change the foreground and background colors, the size, spacing and so on and see how readable it is . . . → Read More: Compare typefaces with each other If you have access to the web, you can check your spelling in 27 languages using Orangoo’s Spell Check. As the number of spam-comments that Akismet has stopped being posted to my blog has now reached over 6600 (up from 1800 on May 2nd this year!), I’ve decided to activate a second line of defence and make it more difficult for spambots to access my site. I’ve activated Bad Behaviour, which is available . . . → Read More: One more defense against spam-comments Linksys NLSU2 and external hard disk We’ve been using a Linksys NLSU2 server to connect a couple of external disk drives to our network so that we can make backups to the hard disks and also run mt-daapd to broadcast our iTunes library of music by WLAN to the lounge. The NLSU2 runs . . . → Read More: Server upgrade I didn’t realise that the Korean war (1950 – 1953) still hasn’t formally ended until I read today that the USA is thinking of offering to sign a peace treaty with N. Korea. Currently, the only thing stopping the war is an armistice signed on 1953-07-27, which was intended as a temporary measure until . . . → Read More: Some things take longer than you might reasonably expect If you’re thinking of buying a Roku Soundbridge and want to use it with iTunes, you need to be very careful what you buy. Roku is selling the Soundbridge under the Roku brand name and licensed to Pinnacle (“powered by Roku”). Only the oringinal Roku Soundbridge supports iTunes and DAAP servers, for example mt_daapd. . . . → Read More: Roku confusion I hadn’t noticed these before, but they are all quite funny (via Steve Castledine) The Economist has been saying for several years that the US dollar is overvalued and that what goes up must come down. Now the Managing Director of one of America’s leading fixed income managers (Bill Gross at Pimco), has expressed the same opinion, finishing his article called “As GM Goes, So Goes the Nation” . . . → Read More: Time for the dollar to fall? |
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