- Removing languages
My Mac's been getting gradually slower and more horrifically crash prone for the past week, to the point where it was unusable. So I'm spending the weekend reinstalling everything which, so far, is making it feel much zippier. In the process I've lost email for most of Thursday and Friday, so if you sent me something and I don't reply, that might be why.
In Mac on 27 July 2003. Add a comment. Permalink
- Encoding with LAME in iTunes revisited
If you ever followed my guide to encoding MP3s with LAME in iTunes, you may find v2.x of iTunes-LAME Encoder better than the old AppleScript version I originally pointed to. I haven't tried it yet, but it looks nicer and apparently has the LAME code built in.
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- Great '24' review
I don't watch 24 but I loved this Sight & Sound review of it by David Thompson.
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- T610 dimness
Like everyone else who bought a mobile phone in the past month, I've replaced my clunky old freebie Motorola with a Sony Ericsson T610. While it satisfies all my criteria — small, cute, tri-band, bluetooth-syncable with Mac OS X, non-Motorola interface, polyphonic ringtones — and has a camera, he was right about the dim display. While it lights up a darkened room like a pocket-size sun, outside on a bright (but still cloudy) day, the screen was only just readable. So, it'll be perfect for you if you never go out. Although the camera only works in decent light. But apart from that it's as lovely as I hoped.
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- Essex signposts and milestones
My mum pointed me at Milestones Online, a site cataloguing signposts and milestones, mostly in my home county of Essex. Not the modern green reflective signposts of course, but those old cast iron posts that you see on country roads between villages with names like Stapleford Tawney and Tolleshunt D'Arcy. Among the good old fashioned homepage styling (centered text, background images, confusing navigation, etc.) there are photos of dozens of signposts (actually, “guideposts”) and photos of milestones on different routes such as the road between London and Harwich. I love it when the web makes you take more notice of things in the real world.
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