The Ringer

The latest Farrelly Brothers comedy movie, The Ringer, opened here in Australia last night. The basic plot outline is that the main character’s only option to erase a really bad debt is to rig the Special Olympics by posing as a contestant. Straight away you can imagine all the major movie-makers running away from that… Continue reading The Ringer

Garth Brooks – Standing Outside The Fire

Check out this great video clip, telling a vignette about a young man with Down syndrome just trying to fit in: [Garth Brooks – Standing Outside The Fire](http://www.vidiLife.com/index.cfm?f=media.play&vchrMediaProgramIDCryp=1D6C9614-54DE-4C33-823C-C). OK, it’s not a new video, but I hadn’t seen it before and it’s kinda cool.

PureText – Clipboard Cleaner For Windows

[PureText](http://www.stevemiller.net/puretext/) by Steve Miller is awesome for pasting stuff into CityDesk (and other HTML editors, rich text editors, formatted emails, Word docs, spreadsheets, etc). You just paste using Windows-V instead of Ctrl-V, and it’ll strip out all the formatting. It’s like doing Edit -> Paste Without Formatting or pasting into Notepad, copying, and pasting into… Continue reading PureText – Clipboard Cleaner For Windows

More Cool Mac Software

I found a couple of cool OS X applications this week: – [Onyx](http://www.titanium.free.fr/pgs/english.html) – System configuration, optimisation, maintenance, log file viewing and cleanup, cache and temporary file cleanup, etc. Freeware. – [Sticky Windows](http://www.donelleschi.com/stickywindows/) – Drag any window to the sides or bottom of the screen, and it becomes a tab and the window is hidden.… Continue reading More Cool Mac Software

Lightbox JS v2.0 Image Galleries

I’ve just installed a neat image display tool called [Lightbox JS v2.0](http://www.huddletogether.com/projects/lightbox2/). Lightbox is really easy to install – you just upload the scripts to your server and add a little bit of CSS to your site template’s header. Full instructions are included in the link above. I really like the way Lightbox can group… Continue reading Lightbox JS v2.0 Image Galleries

Moving WordPress To A Different Directory

This web site was originally created and maintained using [CityDesk](http://www.fogcreek.com/CityDesk/) from [Fog Creek Software](http://www.fogcreek.com/). CityDesk is a great tool for the job, but it only runs on Windows and I’ve moved to the Mac, so maintaining the site was becoming a pain. I was looking for a server-based content management system, and [WordPress](http://wordpress.org/) was the… Continue reading Moving WordPress To A Different Directory

Quicksilver and iTunes

I just discovered a cool feature in [Quicksilver](http://quicksilver.blacktree.com/) on the Mac. It has iTunes integration. In Quicksilver’s preferences, click on the iTunes pane. Make sure you’ve selected ‘Show Artwork’, ‘Monitor Recent Tracks’ and ‘Display Track Notifications’. Now, whenever the song changes you’ll get a popup showing you the name of the new song and the… Continue reading Quicksilver and iTunes