Something I do alot on the Mac is copy files from one place to another. By default clicking on the Finder icon on the Dock just brings to the front the Finder window you already have open – it doesn’t open a new window. There are a few utilities out there that help you open Finder windows, position them etc, but I wanted something simple so that when I had a Finder Window open, I could just click a button and it would duplicate the view of that Finder window and open it.
iTunes Plus was just made available to the public, and I straight away jumped in and bought some music from iTunes – the first time in over a year (yay DRM-free music).
It of course plays perfectly in iTunes & perfectly on my iPod… but – wait a second! My Nokia N95 won’t play it, with an error message of “File is Corrupted. Operation Cancelled”.
This may not be news to everyone – I’m not sure how long this has been the case, but I’ve just found that Google Maps Australia can now do very accurate address mapping, and with it comes the ability to provide turn by turn directions from one address to another (or many). Whilst this has been a supported feature in the US since day one, Australia wasn’t so lucky, until now.
Perfect for planning your next trip – Try it for yourself!
Update: Fantastic! If you have a supported mobile* and Mobile Broadband or GPRS Data** enabled on your phone, you can also get Google Maps for Mobile. Think Whitepages/Yellowpages lookups, step by step directions to get there and clear street maps across Australia (and the world).
* Phones with Java Support and some others
** Make sure you have at least 100Mb downloads on your data plan, otherwise this can get expensive.
Regards,
Shane.
Note: Mac OSX 10.5.x “Leopard” may not need this – however some users have reported it still adds value. Apple seem to have made some changes in the way Leopard interacts with the file system making automatic refreshes far more instant.
A small but annoying thing about Mac OSX is that sometimes it doesn’t refresh itself when a file or folder is changed – especially when dealing with SMB (Windows) share drives.
A letter to Larry Hryb, Microsoft’s Major Nelson about how to help save power with the Xbox 360 and Windows Vista Media Center:
Great news. They’ve started the frame on our new house 
As always you can see the photos in the photo album.
Regards,
Shane.
Well I succumbed and picked up Microsoft Vista Home Premium for my Media Center PC.It’s actually running extremely well and is more stable than XP Media Center 2005. It does have it’s little quirks, and one of them is getting my home movies that are stored on a network drive to show up under Vista Media Center’s Videos in a nice way** . This also more seriously effects Xbox 360’s running as an extender as Vista Home Premium no longer lets you set the extender up with a login script for it to see the network drives.
Today was Imogen’s first day at big school. She had alot of fun & got to meet new friends (and old ones), and starts full time tomorrow. She loves her uniform (and looks great in it), and Mum & Dad are very proud (and still dumbstruck how quickly 5 years flew).
If you want to see the photos – check them out at our Flickr site.
Regards,
Shane.
So, we’ve accepted an offer on our current house (cooling off period ends tomorrow), and they’ve cleared the block and laid the framework for the slab for our new house. New photos have been put in the New House Photo Album.
Regards,
Shane.
Christmas 2006 was lots of fun… we started out at home finding Santa had eaten most of the biscuit we left and drank all of the glass of milk. Lots of presents later we headed to Nanna & Nono’s house where more presents appeared. Later that evening we got to Gran & Grandad’s where, you guessed it… more presents appeared. Lots of fun!
We’re also building a new house… the first photos of the bare block are also available to see… I’ll post more as the building progresses.
See the house photos in the Photo Album, and the Kids Photos at our Flickr Site.
Thanks,
Shane.
I just wanted to take the opportunity and say Merry Christmas from my family to you and yours. I hope you get to spend some stress-free and relaxing times with your family and friends, and that 2007 is better and brighter than 2006.
Take care,
Shane (and Samantha, Imogen & Bianca).
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