(it was a overcast day).
Of course with little fellows like this moving around all the time - it takes some fine tuning on the focus - that's why the Manfrotto sliding plate comes along where ever we go. Thanks to it's quick release lever I was able to adjust focus reasonably quickly.
UnicodeMap page :: http://www.unicodemap.org/details/0x2318/index.html
Control Key :: ⌃
UnicodeMap page :: http://www.unicodemap.org/details/0x2303/index.html
Power Key :: ⎋
UnicodeMap page :: http://www.unicodemap.org/details/0x238B/index.html
Eject Key :: ⏏
UnicodeMap page :: http://www.unicodemap.org/details/0x23CF/index.html
Opt/Alt Button :: ⌥
UnicodeMap page :: Details for Character 0x2325 - "⌥" from Unicode Map
Caps Lock Key :: ⇪
UnicodeMap page :: http://www.unicodemap.org/details/0x21EA/index.html
Shift Key :: ⇧
UnicodeMap page :: http://www.unicodemap.org/details/0x21E7/index.html
Return Key :: ↩
UnicodeMap page :: http://www.unicodemap.org/details/0x21A9/index.html
Page Up Key :: ⇞
UnicodeMap page :: http://www.unicodemap.org/details/0x21DE/index.html
Page Down Key :: ⇟
UnicodeMap page :: http://www.unicodemap.org/details/0x21DF/index.html
Delete (Backspace) Key :: ⌫
UnicodeMap page :: http://www.unicodemap.org/details/0x232B/index.html
Forward Delete Key :: ⌦
UnicodeMap page :: http://www.unicodemap.org/details/0x2326/index.html
Apple Logo Key :: - Mac Browsers
UnicodeMap page :: http://www.unicodemap.org/details/0xF8FF/index.html
Tab forward Key :: ⇥
UnicodeMap page :: http://www.unicodemap.org/details/0x21E5/index.html
Tab back Key :: ⇤
UnicodeMap page :: http://www.unicodemap.org/details/0x21E4/index.html
There are several ways to enter these symbols in your web pages, for one of the more Mac ways, have a look at Entering Unicode Text and Symbols.
]]>Remind you of anyone - how much did Johnny spend try to sell us WorkChoices?
Do me a favour push this barrow out to your friends and get them to have a look at the GetUp Australia website esp. the new ad they want to run on boxing day, if for no other reason than it's a good laugh.
www.getup.org.au/campaign/SpotTheDifference
UPDATED - here's the ad
Personally I'm putting up some cash because I really don't want my kids cursing me and my generation for not doing anything - do you want your kids living in a world that's fucked up or one that we can save?
]]>]]> Apart from the fact that it's a zero-day exploit and it's being actively exploited the latest update to Microsoft's Security Advisory is that it definitely affects older version of IE going all the way back to IE5 not just IE7 and the still in Beta IE8.TechNet Security
[From Microsoft Security Advisory (961051): Vulnerability in Internet Explorer Could Allow Remote Code Execution]
The interesting thing is that the newest browsers from Microsoft is vulnerable to the same exploit as some of it's oldest - surely they will learn that you have to cut the cord to the past some time... oh wait can you say Vista drivers...
In more bad news for Microsoft, TrendLabs is reporting that the exploit is now being used for mass sql injections - oh the humanity when will it end?
Of course they're already probably feeling the pain as pundits and press from around the world recommend dumping IE for any other browser until the problem is fixed (apparently @ 10am PST).
So kiddies go tell your IT Manager that you're worried about suffering and zero-day exploit and would really feel more comfortable with a secure, standards compliant browser like FireFox or Safari or even Lynx (if you're into that sort of text only thing). Of course, afterwards, there is no real reason to go back to IE is there?
]]>Yes it's true and not only that Steve Jobs is not giving the keynote.
[From Apple Announces Its Last Year at Macworld]]]>
In a predictable move (in the sense that they've pulled out of every other show throughout 2008) Apple have announced that 2009 will be their last year at the San Francisco MacWorld Expo. When I look back at the monster shows like E4, CES and the various MacWorld's around the world it's clear to me that they reflected a world that wasn't Internet enabled and that they were really geek holiday resorts. The Internet observation should be self apparent, but what I mean by the geek holiday, is that the people we would see at these Expo/Conferences where already customers, sure there was a smattering of people that had never heard of Macromedia or Apple or whatever companies stand I was working on but they were the tire kickers. Overwhelmingly the people in attendance where existing users not new potential clients. Having said that I will miss the Expo's when they pass into history.
Perhaps the more interesting aspects of this press release are the huge numbers of people (3.5 million) that visit every week and Phil Schiller is doing the keynote.
The biggest MacWorld keynote at the Moscone surely only fitted a few thousand people in - even the ones that had people bulging out the doors and standing around the walls to dangerous levels. The numbers of people that attended the entire Expo was at it's best equivalent to 10% of 1 day, and that's assuming a 7 day week. This is based on MacWorld's figures for 2007, interestingly I can't find the actual figure for 2008 in the press release. Clearly Apple is getting a lot more eyeballs from the Internet that from expensive hard to co-ordinate and leak prone Expo's - after all the iPhone SDK had over 100,000 registrations in its first few days of being released.
Phil Schiller - 17 year veteran at Apple - will make the keynote at Apple's final MacWorld SF. Interesting... the possible speculations that you see come from the blogging world will no doubt include:
Phil has certainly got the track record at Apple to be the anointed, but he's certainly doesn't have the RDF level of presentation skills that Steve Jobs has. Then again, you can only have one star on stage at a time, it's a dynamic of human nature in both the audience and the presenters. Maybe in the area of Presentation expertise Phil is only just now cracking his 10K hours (Amazon link to a great book) or he's been hiding his light under a bushel. Of course I could be way off...]]>
My experience is that 2 out of 3 of our Mac's worked fine with Software Update and one Mac Mini had to be rebooted and updated with the Combo Updater.
In an increasingly common trend Apple have provided an good amount of information about 10.5.6 and the changes in this update.
]]>[From GetUp! - Action For Australia - www.getup.org.au]]]> GetUp! is an Australian Online Advocacy group, that's taken on the job of tackling the stupid policy our Federal Government pushed in the Elections, namely Net Censorship. If the simple fact that Australian Internet services have become the laughing stock of the developed world,this plan would provide even slower services that provide no value at all to the majority of Australians. Add to that the fact that school children have been able to get around the filters in trials to date and you've got to ask yourself why?
Clearly the Federal Government needs to re-think its plans - surely the raft of experts, industry leaders and CEOs of major ISPs that have spoken up. Apart from protecting the "public" from the Internet shouldn't the Federal Government also look at how badly this is going to impact business? Business is doing it tough enough with the credit crunch and the carbon-taxes on the horizon - slowing down their networks and increasing the cost of bandwidth will not help anyone.
The worst bit is none of this will stop anyone that's serious about getting their porn or warez or mp3s or DIVx movies all it will do is put Australia further behind in the Internet game - if you agree go over to GetUp! and sign up!
]]>[From Specs released for NSW school laptops - BizTech - Technology - smh.com.au]]]> Days like this make you want to move to another State.... I hear just about every other state is actually doing a decent job of the roll-out. Anyone in Queensland need a iPhone/Cocoa/Web Development Manger?]]>
[From Win Ben Stein's mind - Roger Ebert's Journal]]]> its worth it.
[From HandBrake.fr]
Yes folks the long awaited update to HandBrake is out and so far it's living up to expectations.
]]> As you can see from the announcement this update brings lot of nice features and our results are encouraging. Our test movie "Better Off Dead" (which has significant issues to start with) looks noticeably better from after being processed by the latest version of Handbrake. To achieve this result we did have to update our combined PS3/AppleTV profile that we discussed in a previous post.There is one very important change, HandBrake no longer decrypts DVDs. This function has been removed completely from the program. For some of you this may not impact your workflow at all (in that you copy the DVD to your hard disk through a decryption program as the first step) for the rest of you there is an easy way out. Well, for Mac OS X users anyway, I can't speak to the Windows experience.
If you're using Mac OS X its simply a case of installing the latest version of VLC Media Player - in fact there's a fair chance you've already got it installed.
iTunes 8.0.2 notes:
iTunes 8.0.2 improves stability and performance and provides a number of important bug fixes, including:
- Addresses a quality issue creating MP3s on some computers.
- Fixes a connectivity issue with the iTunes Store when using some Internet proxies with Mac OS X.
- Improves accessibility with VoiceOver.
iPhone 2.2 Firmware notes:
And if you didn't notice the AppleTV 2.3 update you can get that from the usual update mechanism in your AppleTV, and the support document with all the details is found here.
]]>[From Brandon Walkin » Blog Archive » Introducing BWToolkit]]]> Of course if you have no idea what Interface Builder is you can just ignore this post completely.]]>
Oh and if you don't know how to enable automatic logon in XP (as mentioned in the previous post) you might want to review this M$ article.
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Amongst the many features I'm looking forward to is being able to virtualise Lepoard Server - I'm at that stage with the web development where I can do without a full blown server at home. Using a vitualised server I can run up the environment when I need it and turn it off when I don't - which you have to admit will be quicker, cheaper and easier than having a gas guzzling server sitting in the rack to be only used a few hours a day.
Some tips (so far) with the upgrading process:
1. Its US$39.00 for the upgrade but if you brought it recently you may qualify for a free upgrade. (It's US$79.00 for the whole package). Get your copy before the end of November and you can get a 20% discount.
2. If you use the Google installed free version of PC Tools Anti-Spyware software and you want to use the new Parallels Internet Security software (Kaspersky actually) open the Google Updater and remove this software before you upgrade.
2a. Likewise if you have the ClamWin Free Antivirus sofware installed (use Add/Remove Program to uninstall ClamWin).
3. If you forget to do 2 & 2a before the update and for some reason the Parallels Internet Security installer doesn't launch use the "Virtual Machine –> Install Parallels Internet Security" menu option.
3. Enable Auto-Login - before updating any of your virtualised Windows machines enable the Auto-Login. Parallels 4 needs to upgrade your virtual machines and it can do it all Automatically for you.
4. If the Automatic Upgrade process fails and Parallels tells you to proceed with "Manual" upgrade don't panic. First off, check the FAQ that is linked to in the warning message - then when you do all of that and it still doesn't work see if Windows tells you some rubbish about significant changes to the hardware requiring you to re-authenticate - do it. In my experience this will allow the automatic update to resume and you should be in happy land.
If you do all of these things you can save yourself a few reboots of the virtual machine and maybe some sanity as we head into the end of the week!
Of course if you find any other tricks or useful bits let me know in the comments!
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