Recently I had to re-install my CS4 upgrade and hit a strange error, opening the "Setup" application resulted in the normal request for Authentication, as shown below. The problem is, nothing else happened - the dialog box went away and literally nothing happened.

Just call me a sucker, I always tell friends, family, anyone that asks in fact - research the web seller BEFORE you buy from them. Don't trust them unless you've dealt with them recently. If it's been awhile since you used them checkout their reputation - if only I'd done that, I'd be in a much better place.

Well to start the week off on a high our spam pot for Tuesday 17 March is more that $40 Million US dollars!

This is just spam that makes it through the ISP's filters and into the Junk folder of Mail, no one really knows how much money I'm really missing out on.

For your edification and enjoyment copies of the promissory notes are included after the jump.

Here's a bit of video fun called "Cell Phone Reunion" by way of CollegeHumor.com. Isn't it great when humour and your work collide? It's also nice when there's a little bit of perspective thrown into the humour as well. Enjoy the video after the jump.

Hi - this is not our usual sort of post but if you've got 5 minutes to spare and a $5.00 or more could you jump over to the Red Cross Australia site and make a donation?

Webkit, for the uninformed, is the Open Source engine at the heart of Apple's Safari for Macs & Windows and Apple's Mobile Safari for the iPhone. Now for the non-Apple fan before you start ragging on a great piece of OSS bear in mind that WebKit is also at the heart of Google's Chrome and a range of other browsers and pieces of software, including a range of new mobile phones from the likes of Nokia and Samsung.

The initial analysis of the GetUp! 2009 Survey are in and the results are worth a look.

Mobile Orchard is becoming one of those websites that absolutely must be read by iPhone Developer and their latest article is good for anyone that uses Xcode.

In case you haven't seen it yet there's updates in them thar' hills. Well to be precise Software Update is bringing a series of new updates your way, they include:

• iDVD Update 7.0.3
• iLife Media Browser Update 2.0
• NVIDIA Graphics Update 2009 1.0

Screensavers are one of those things that have really passed their original reason for coming into existence, ie. to prevent an image from burning into your cathode ray based computer monitor. Since then they've evolved into entertainment and infotainment systems providing everything from photo slideshows to RSS feeds to just pretty graphics. Some are even interactive like Soundstream...