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Nuke 'em!

Published by Bruce on January 20, 2006 in Musings. 2 responses

I'll not pretend this is ethical, or even entertaining. Morbidly fascinating? Perhaps. Maybe, in a fleeting moment of desire to resolve some of the world's problems, you've considered the value of deadly force (and are prepared to accept a little collateral damage). Maybe you're paranoid about the [insert name of intelligence agency] sending a cruise missile your way, homing in on your position by triangulating the signal from your mobile phone? Feeling a little aggrieved about your neighbours? Maybe you're just tired of feeling cold and damp (but remember to stand well back). This is the tool for you...
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Geocaching with TomTom: a Mac/ Palm solution

Published by Bruce on January 13, 2006 in Gadgets. 10 responses

Jeff Fort read my post concerning the installation of TomTom POI from a Mac. Jeff is into geocaching, and asked if I knew a way to get waypoints into TomTom Navigator 5 on his Palm from his Mac. While I'd heard of Geotagging (with reference to tagging images with GPS co-ordinates), my first step was to find out something about geocaching. Then I could start looking at the problem...
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Google Guide Quick Reference

Published by Bruce on January 6, 2006 in Quicklinks. 0 responses

Google Guide Quick Reference: Google Advanced Operators (Cheat Sheet); How to get the most out of your Google searches.

Using Gmail on a Palm T3

Published by Bruce on September 11, 2005 in Gadgets. 2 responses

An advantage of using Gmail is that you're not tied down to your ISP's mail servers; sometimes these can't be accessed if you're not using your regular network connection. The Palm T3 ships with VersaMail 2.6, which Palm have since neglected to update (for T3 users). Unfortunately VersaMail 2.6 does not support connections to SMTP servers for sending mail over SSL as required by Gmail (for some reason SSL is supported for receiving e-mail only).
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A hole dug in NZ would come out where?

Published by Bruce on September 10, 2005 in New Zealand. 2 responses

This is a question I remember reflecting upon as a kid. If I dug straight down from my back yard in New Zealand, passing through the Earth's core, where would my hole come out? A new application utilising Google Earth now provides the answer.
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Blogger for Word: easy just got easier

Published by Bruce on August 19, 2005 in Internet. 0 responses

Now here's a good idea: offer a free set of ready-made blog templates (see Google's Blogger), then make it possible to write, edit, and publish posts from within the ubiquitous Word processor everyone loves to curse. A new toolbar for Word (Windows only) has been released that could help more of the mildly curious get blogging from a position of familiarity.
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