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Archive for 2007

Puzzle Updates

Thursday, January 11th, 2007

This month, I’ve made a couple of minor changes to the puzzle pages, in response to feedback from puzzle solvers like you. Firstly, I have added a scratch area to my collection of Tough Sudoku Puzzles, as shown here. My Super-Tough and Insane puzzles have always had this extra grid for working out the puzzle […]

Three essential third party Mac Apps

Saturday, January 6th, 2007

I’ve acquired a nice little collection of third party apps, freeware and shareware, since switching to a Mac recently. There are three that deserve special mention, because they work together to make using the Mac an even more efficient and harmonious experience, especially if you are multitasking. QuickSilver My first few days using the Mac, […]

Wolfgang’s Vault

Thursday, January 4th, 2007

Wolfgang’s Vault has an impressive collection of live recordings of concerts at the Fillmore East, Fillmore West and other Bill Graham venues. The concerts cover a period from the mid 1960s to the 1980s and include many famous bands in their prime, include Cream, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, James Brown, David Bowie and others. They […]

Installing PerlMagick on OSX

Wednesday, January 3rd, 2007

I have built up a pretty large collection of cool perl scripts that use the Image::Magick perl extensions – some of these are documented in Flickr Hacks. Recently I switched to a using a Mac, and I’ve been having a devil of a time using these scripts, because they require ImageMagick, and LWP, and I […]