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Monday, September 15th, 2008

Schoc Chocolates

I found Schoc linked to at confessions of a food nazi

They’re a New Zealand based chocolatier who produce chocolates with an unusual slant.

Boysenberry & Whisky? Tequila, Lime & Salt? Smoked Tea?

They sound very… interesting.  But I’d like to try their Peppermint Cream or Raspberry Caramel – they look delicious.

They are a few international stockists, you’ll just have to hope you’re near one, or live in NZ.

Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008

Portable WordPress

A WordPress app has been released on the iTunes AppStore. This allows for posts from your iPhone/iPod Touch – easy for posts on the go – Assuming you are in a country that actually has mobile data plans and not requests for the customer to bend over and touch our toes…

Tuesday, May 6th, 2008

LibraryThing

As can be seen on the lower right, there’s now another sidebar widget.

LibraryThing is a online cataloging system.  While they usually supply a javascript (which doesn’t work too well with WordPress.  However, Tim has come up with this elegant way of including LibraryThing info in your blog.

I’ve added my collection (and amazon wishlist) and will have to work my way through tagging my books.

I’ve been wondering how to get Firefox Bookmarks into Spotlight – useful for those rarely used bookmarks.  This Hint seems to get it half done, in converting the Firefox bookmarks into .webbookmark files.

It seems to me (haven’t tried it yet, job interview this morning) that you could use RCDefaultApp to set the default for .webbookmark from Safari to Firefox.

Now it’s time for cron jobs and pearl scripts – but that’s for another time.

Saturday, April 26th, 2008

Currently Reading Widget

As can be seen on the lower right, there’s a new widget (and for those who only use RSS…you know what to do)

This is a manual thing, until I either learn enough to automagically create the list.

It’s not a large collection, and if you want to help, you can always visit my Wishlist or Here

Ta da.

Sunday, April 13th, 2008

Webpage Ribbon 1

Little Gamers has a webpage ribbon on the top left of their webpage.  I thought this was rather cool and tried to work out how to do it myself – couldn’t do it.  I don’t know enough…yet.  I did find This Guide, but I couldn’t work out how to add it to WordPress.

A little Googling found this WordPress Ribbon plugin.  As you can see at the top left it’s working.  I’m not done yet.

Plans – since it’s a gif, I can make it animated.  Currently, I’m planning on adding a Made in Australia tag.  Maybe a Made On a Mac one as well.

Watch This Space.

Thursday, April 10th, 2008

NSFW Links

One more in the Useful Stuff series

NSFW Link.

To safely send NSFW links.

This is the first of what I’ll try to make a habit of. I’m going to post snippets that i find useful, either for OSX or iPod.


On my iPod Touch, the Books.app can only read HTML or TXT files – so some RTF files will need to be converted so that they can be read.

This can be done via Terminal.  Copy the RTF files to a temporary folder (at the desktop or ~/ for example).  Fire up Terminal, cd to your temporary folder, and use the command

textutil -convert txt *.*

Seems to do a very nice job.

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