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Digg if you Digg!

terry — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 12:51:04 +0000

Netscape digg copy never gets many diggers lets try and break a record and show them how much more popular and better Digg really is! Kind of like honk if you bonk!

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Civilization 4 for Mac Shipping

terry — Mon, 26 Jun 2006 14:14:37 +0000

The fourth episode in the Civilization series is finally released for the Mac.

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Japan offered micro Mac Mini “rival”

terry — Fri, 21 Apr 2006 10:26:11 +0000

Good effort from the Japanese. Only real difference is size/weight/lack of bluetooth. Other than that, the same - only difference is it costs $200 more than the Mac mini. Who says Macs are more expensive

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Amiga “Game Intro” Video Podcast (H.264/DivX)

terry — Thu, 13 Apr 2006 07:32:42 +0000

Videos of the intros to Amiga Games. You can subscribe, as with the demo podcast, to either an H.264 or a DivX video feed.

The first one is Another World by Delphine Software.

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NEW Internet Explorer Exploit

terry — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 13:19:26 +0000

This one is VERY VERY Bad Phiser’s are using it already! Digg This so Others can do the Test, Click on the Link and go to the “Start Test” link on the page.

Another good reason to ditch Internet Explorer (only browser affected), and it even affects IE7, which is bad for the whole “anti-phishing technology” MS is employing. Way to go!

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OOP Concept explained: Polymorphism

terry — Fri, 17 Mar 2006 09:23:28 +0000

The problem with most computer science texts is the examples aren’t interesting. Polymorphism isn’t really hard to understand, but the examples are usually boring or difficult to understand. This is an alternative text which attempts to use a problem space that’s already familiar to the college student to make the concepts of programming simple.

Interesting, if not slightly rude.

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Intel iMac XP Boot-loader

terry — Thu, 16 Mar 2006 18:55:18 +0000

The winner of the big $13,000 prize for getting WindowsXP and MacOSX to co-exist on Intel Macs has posted his solution. Come and get it!

This is great news for anyone with a new Intel Mac who has to live in the Windows world for those “very important” applications that you can’t get on OS X.

Nice work guys.

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Improved Video Quality

terry — Thu, 16 Mar 2006 18:52:20 +0000

I’ve managed to improve the quality of the video source I am capturing into my Mac. Now using a shielded SPDIF cable. This has reduced the diagonal lines, which may or may not have been visible previously.

Also tweaked about with the brightness/contrast settings so that the blacks no longer look grey. Hope you enjoy the improved quality.