Installing add-ons in recent Thunderbird versions
With the recent release of Thunderbird 8.0 (and possibly 7.0 – I didn’t check), the Mozilla folks have made a small change to the way add-ons are installed from downloaded files. Until the last version, opening the Add-ons page (Tools -> Add-ons) allowed you to install add-ons from downloaded files by clicking a separate Install [...]
November 10, 2011
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Get your shared items back in Google Reader
Following my last post, I’ve been hunting around for a way to get at my shared items from Google Reader since Google saw fit to remove them without giving anyone fair warning that they were going to do it. Naturally I’m not the only one wanting to do this, and cleverer people than I have [...]
November 6, 2011
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DRQueue and Blender 2.5
I have at last made the leap from Blender 2.49 to Blender 2.5, having been nervous about making the leap in the middle of a project. In the end I was forced to, and so far I haven’t regretted it. Sure, a couple of things have needed fixing, but that’s a small price to pay [...]
July 23, 2011
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apps, blender
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HTML5 Video and Safari for Windows
I’ve recently been messing around with embedding videos on web pages, which has gone reasonably well. Like a good little boy I’ve been testing it on a few browser/platforms to see if it works. Imagine my consternation when my installation of the latest-and-greatest Safari (5.0.5) on Windows had a big sulk and refused to have [...]
July 9, 2011
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apps, computing, safari, windows
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Timezones in Google Calendar
I had a small nerdgasm recently when I discovered that Google Calendar has finally added the ability to specify the time zone in which an event will happen. This is great for entering events organised by people in other time zones – you can simply enter the time and the time zone together (there’s a [...]
February 3, 2011
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