3. 2010-05-14

    Narrowcasting : Just how demographically targetted can a facebook ad be?

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  6. 2010-02-24

    Ocean robot 'plans experiments' : The Gulper AUV, using an embedded software engine called 'T-Rex', can navigate autonomously, and make planning decisions about how best to schedule its task list of experiments.

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  7. 2010-01-23

    That A.C. Newman, he has an enviable work ethic. New TNP album is due May 4th! I presume that's a USA release date.

    Rather excitingly, the recording sessions featured St Vincent , Will Sheff , and slightly less excitingly, the Dap-Kings horns , and Zach Condon . The album title is 'Together'.

    The New Pornographers are due to play this year's Primavera Sound, although I suspect I will be giving it a miss this time around.

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  8. 2010-01-23

    I can't believe it's taken me this long to figure out, but PhotoBooth is amusing for babies.

    Photo on 2010-01-23 at 10.10 #4

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  9. 2010-01-22

    Pixel Qi : Amidst all the talk of OLED and speculation about colour e-ink, this modal hybrid display might be quietly revolutionary.

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  13. 2009-12-26

    GNEVE : An inevitable addition to the available range of of digital video editing tools.

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  15. 2009-12-12

    There's a handy little command line tool nestled away inside Apple's system WiFi framework.

    Apple80211.framework/Resources/airport

    It doesn't come with a man page, but --help will print a usage guide.


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  17. 2009-12-03

    Leopard introduced a number of system level changes to font handling. There's a system daemon, fontd that handles runtime font registration. Some of the new features that are implemented include on-demand font activation, on a per-application basis and system font-protection, which guards against removal or disabling certain fundamental system fonts.

    There's a couple of situations where you might need to interface with the font registry database. Sometimes the system font caches can become garbled, and require a manual flush - before leopard these could be easily found under /Library/Caches/com.apple.ATS - now they're squirreled away under /var and managed by fontd. Font protection might stop you from legitimately manipulating certain font files; in a prepress environment you might need to replace one of the magic System protected fonts with a custom version.

    There's a command line utility provided, called ' atsutil ' which offers a user interface to these features. It has a fine man page .

    To purge the font caches, which will fix persistant text rendering problems, you use the command atsutil databases -removeUser

    To display the list of System protected fonts use the command atsutil fontprotection -files .

    To globally disable the font protection feature, use the command atsutil fontprotection -off . Re-enable it with the -on switch.

    Don't remove system protected fonts , unless you are replacing them with a workable substitute.

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  18. 2009-11-20

    marinetraffic.com : for those moments when you find yourself in need of a realtime interactive map of all the transponder-equipped shipping on the seas.

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  19. 2009-11-18

    Executed Offenders : The Texas department of Criminal Justice seemingly publishes the last statements made by all its executed criminals.

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