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Objective C for rest and relaxation
Trying to teach myself some programming again, I thought I’d give Apple’s XCode a whirl. After all, last week I found myself bemoaning the fact that when I were a lad all computers came with a programming language built-in or … Continue reading
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Colour profile confusion: sRGB vs Adobe RGB
colour profiles: a browser comparison Originally uploaded by gilesbooth. A while ago I read in “The Photoshop Book for Digital Phtographers” by Scott Kelby that the default colour space used by Photoshop (and lots of other things) sucks. It’s called … Continue reading
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eureka!
eureka! Originally uploaded by gilesbooth. I take it all back. Screen rotation does work in OS 10.4.4 – I just needed an external display on my PowerBoook for the option to show up. A humble telly sufficed. Thanks to westy48 … Continue reading
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Mac OS X in portrait mode
vertical desktop Originally uploaded by gilesbooth. further to my snap at www.flickr.com/photos/gilesbooth/97657473/ … here’s a proper screenshot of MacOS 10.4 working in portrait mode. You can almost see all is apps in one list! The Mac Mini is such an … Continue reading
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x-logo
x-logo Originally uploaded by gilesbooth. It was Henry’s academic review at school today. He’s been using a robot called Pixie and programming patterns using 2go. I wanted to play with this stuff at home, but 2go is part of a … Continue reading
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