March 2008
Outspring Inc - Outspring Mail →
“Imagine an email program that was smart enough to observe and learn how you handle your email. Like offering to reply to certain types of email messages using a response you’ve previously…
Downloading the trial of Director 11. There was no mention of this new version on the Adobe homepage, strange for a new product.
WatchDudhope Skatepark BBQ Session 28/03/2008
iFixit.com - MacBook Pro 15" Core Duo Disassembly ... →
iFixit offer great guides for disassembling Macs and how to upgrade compontents. Saved By: Rick Curran | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: macbook pro, repair, guide
Finding it funny when someone I know shows up in an interview on the web. http://uk.xbox360.ign.com/articles/863/863028p1.html
Aaron Garbut’s come a long way from a Sculpture degree messing around with a bunch of Amigas!
Editing a short video from todays BBQ at the skatepark. Kind of rained in the end but skated for a bit. Uploading to vimeo shortly.
Going from 6Gb free to 232Gb free is very nice! No longer worried about swap files causing my machine to ssslllooowww down or worse crash!
Dundee, Scotland in the Top Seven Intelligent Communities of the Year 2008, 2nd year running - http://tinyurl.com/eled3
Dundee, Scotland FTW!
Fellow Dundee company gets $50Million financing and a mention on Techcrunch! http://tinyurl.com/yo8mx8 They’re just across the road from me.
Hard drive replaced, restoring from Time Machine backup now. 320Gb now instead of 80Gb ;)
Hard drive replacement on my MacBook Pro - http://snaptweet.com/f9a03
Ok, take 2, going down to install new hard drive, now armed with T6 Torx screwdriver!
Ok, postponed hard drive upgrade due to lack of T6 Torx screwdriver! Doh.
About to install the behemoth 320Gb HD in my MacBook Pro. Here’s hoping it all goes well! See in a while!
Oh yeah, using my iPod Touch to follow instructions on ifixit.com!
Bloxes →
“Bloxes are building blocks made of interlocking pieces of corrugated cardboard, folded together. Their unique shape and structure make them exceptionally strong and lightweight - you could build…
Time for lunch, salad box style!
Getting hungry but it’s only just past 11am.
Just bought a 320Gb drive for my MacBook Pro - http://tinyurl.com/2uw6er
GrApple - Aronnax`s Firefox Themes →
“Experience the Web, GrApple style, with Firefox: the fastest, easiest-to-use web browser in the world. With its simple, elegant interface, Firefox + GrApple gets out of your way and lets you enjoy…
Installing iWork ‘08, hopefully I will not open Word again for a while.
Color Palette Generator →
“Enter the URL of an image to get a color palette that matches the image. This is useful for coming up with a website color palette that matches a key image a client wants to work with.”
XP SP3 imminent, not delivering IE7 to more users though ;( http://tinyurl.com/323xbq
Toyota - http://snaptweet.com/1a192
Stuff White People Like - http://tinyurl.com/363t59
My workmate who recently switched to mac just sent an email to other 2 Windows users suggesting they switch to Mac minis! Hilarious ;)
Time for bed. Finished ___ ______ ___________ ___ for the night. Activity name concelead to prevent breaking an NDA ;)
Weird. Since last Safari update I can no longer middle-click the home icon to open it in a new tab. It just doesn’t work! Or is it just me??
Going to play Wii Sports, need some exercise! ;)
About to book at http://thehighlandfling.com/, anyone got a promo code? ;)
Anyone going to Highland Fling?
Converting my standalone blog tool into a module of my CMS. Lots of Find /replacing of variables.
trying to figure out how to do a little transparent overlay thang
Whole family (except baby Gabriella thankfully) was sick since Thursday, Annie got better then I got sick!
Coming to the surface after being really sick since Saturday night. Vomiting like a champ etc!!! Taken a day off work to recover a bit more.
The new Indiana Jones movie looks to be awesome!
Gabriella meets Warhol - http://snaptweet.com/b17aa
Photobooth+9 week old baby = http://tinyurl.com/3yfjy8
Cool http://www.truedimensions.com/timesage/rescue.mov
Working on code. Hopefully getting to Nevis Range this weekend for some snowboarding, conditions looks pretty good!!! ;)
ExpanDrive - Bring your remote files closer to... →
ExpanDrive gives you perfectly transparent access to open, edit, and save files with your favorite programs, even when those files are half a world away. Transparent means that you don’t even notice…
And now I should be in bed as it’s late and I’ve been awake since 6am!
Just updated my blog layout, tumblr blog layout and twitter colour scheme to match.
Colour scheme / layout tweakery
Just tweaked the colour scheme of this blog and also my blog at Suburbia.org.uk as well as my twitter feed at twitter.com/rickcurran to make them all fit together a bit more. This blog’s look and feel is a bit rough still, I want to merge them together a bit more, perhaps bring the same main menu from Suburbia into this site too.