Greenflame
Jottings on science, religion, technology, pop culture, photography and faith from the Aotearoa New Zealand
Category: Digital Technology
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Pretty much like my experience when I got my iBook. Nice interface, the iApps work well, set up was a snap, some commercial software was needed (Office, EndNote) and a nice UNIX system under the skin for downloading, testing and running open-source software and systems (Makes testing things like blogging software really easy). Again like…
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Came across this article today as part of my pulling stuff together for my “Hacking as Theology” paper I’m working on at the moment. Sociology of Religion: May the Force of the Operating System be with You: Macintosh Devotion as Implicit Religion (From Sociology of Religion, Summer, 2001 by Pui-Yan Lam) As practice, identity, and…
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BBC NEWS | Education | Academics give lessons on blogs Blogs are giving departments, staff and students the freedom and informality of tone impossible in scholarly journals or even the student newspaper. Blogging lecturers say the technology provides them with easy online web access to students and improves communication outside of the classroom. Via: maggi…
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If you’re running OSX 10.3.5 and you are looking for a text editor that has more features than TextEdit then have a look at TextWrangler from Bare Bones Software. They’ve just released version 2 as freeware so try it and see. Seeing as I’m still back in Bronze Age OSX 10.2 I use their old…
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Well, maybe not. However this article shows how to use a local style sheet to override the one on a web site. Skinning Gmail with a Custom Stylesheet No longer will I have to suffer bizarre colour combinations when accessing things like library catalogues – now I can override it so I get readable black…
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Found this neat little Mac OS X app the other day that connect iTunes to my Creative MuVo TX FM MP3/WMA player. Plug the USB connection in, iTunes starts up and displays the MuVo as a device and you can drag music onto it without having those annoying hidden OSX files appearing if you did…
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Hmm. Given the number of “emergent-types” who seem to dote on their iBooks and Powerbooks I guess they’re not aiming for “biological growth” in the emergent church 🙂 Reuters.co.uk | Hot laptops could cook men’s fertility.
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In a fit of efficiency I’ve moved the blog from running on the Berkley DB over to MySQL. Hopefully this will give me more control over the blog and maybe even some performance improvement. If it all turns to custard in the near future I’ll be rolling back a few days. BTW – Backups were…
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I am in awe (and my iBook is now more than a little afraid). MacMod – Picking up where Apple leaves off ” The i-Tablet “
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Cellphones get broken by tight jeans according to a recent survey by manufacturer Siemens. Just one of the more common ways of destroying your mobile. Reminds me of common notebook computer accidents – like leaving a pen or pencil on the keyboard and closing the screen. Or the incident a friend (who serviced notebook computers)…