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Evernote.com as a tool for scholarly research

Sunday, June 27, 2010

I’ve recently started to use the software Evernote to help organise the morass of notes I’m wading around in while doing my M.A. thesis (I am not doing a Master’s degree in any comp.sci related area – it’s a Masters of Arts in Ancient History, and my thesis is on an aspect of the Roman [...]

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Running Oracle XE on Mac OSX using virtualised JeOS

Thursday, August 27, 2009

So Oracle in its wisdom doesn’t have Mac OSX version of its free database. This is of course really annoying to Mac users who need to develop systems that use Oracle databases – Oracle XE is a great little database especially for development environments. Recently I found myself in a situation where I would be [...]

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Mozilla Thunderbird as alternative to Mac Mail.app

Thursday, August 13, 2009

This morning my Mac’s Mail.app actually ate two emails I wrote and didn’t send them or save them in my ‘Drafts’ folder. Data loss is unacceptable, so I searched for an alternative. It seems the best alternative on offer is Thunderbird, which I used to use in my Windows and Linux days. Thunderbird 2 doesn’t [...]

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Upgrading to Maven 2.1.0 on Macintosh OS X

Monday, March 23, 2009

Recently I found a Maven plugin that wouldn’t run under Maven version 2.0.6, and I had to upgrade it on my Macintosh. I quickly discovered the usual *nix upgrade (unpack, then update ${PATH}) didn’t seem to work, as the Macintosh OS X 10.5 comes with Maven pre-installed in /usr/share/ directory. Tip – I found where [...]

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Apple iPhoto 09 Flickr integration is bad, very bad

Friday, February 27, 2009

I am very, very pissed off with Apple’s iPhoto to Flickr integration. It’s seriously broken software. Here are just some of the reasons why – interface and interaction designers please take note: Uploading photos in bulk does not preserve the order (any order) in the Flickr stream. So your photostream gets whack out of order. [...]

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