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Using the iPad as a sheet music viewer with forScore

Using the iPad as a sheet music viewer with forScore

I already have most of my music in PDF format and had wanted to use my Samsung NC10 to read music from but this had a number of drawbacks, the screen was poor at a distance, hitting the right button to flip pages was tricky and perching in on the piano was a bit of [...]

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What is RSS Part One

What is RSS Part One

So you have probably seen an icon or text saying RSS feed, subscribe, add to your reader etc. Ever wondered what its all about ?

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TVcatchup.com

TVcatchup.com

At a recent party I was introduced to tvcatchup.com, specifically the iPhone version at iphone.tvcatchup.com, this amazing website lets you view a growing selection of freeview channels through your iPhone over 3G or Wifi. Given the large amount of WiFi connections available, this almost seems to good to be true. In practice the site works [...]

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Windows 7 launch

Windows 7 launch

Windows 7 is upon us, well those that are still using Windows anyway There is a great scene in there which I hope doesn't stand true today as it did 10 years ago (yep 10 whole years) . You could easily replace the 'Windows 98' in this with Vista, and it would stand up as [...]

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Lift the Leopard download quarantine

If you get annoyed by the “blah is an application which was downloaded from the Internet. Are you sure you want to open it?” prompt on OSX, head over to this guys site to get a script that removes the downloaded file attribute from the file http://henrik.nyh.se/2007/10/lift-the-leopard-download-quarantine Short version: Save the file http://henrik.nyh.se/uploads/Unquarantine.scpt into your [...]

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oo, error

oo, error

oo, error Originally uploaded by odolphie I had this error come up in Garageband. Its good to see they want to generate fewer error messages. All I had done was added some notes, changed the pitch then used the keyboard shortcut to undo. “Beta-only warning message – not to be localized. UMESSAGE buffer full should [...]

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Bug

Bug

Bug Originally uploaded by odolphie A bug that decided to land on my window while I was looking for something to do, so I photographed it then practiced my masking skills in Photoshop to get the background black.

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eee Keyboard

eee Keyboard

 I just found the articles on the Asus eee keyboard, a computer in a keyboard concept. (details over on Engadget)  16GB SSD, 1GB of RAM, WiFi and Bluetooth modules, VGA / HDMI ouputs and a few USB 2.0 ports. If it does run XP then thats pretty amazing.  As a replacement for a netbook it [...]

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Make the agent string stick in Safari

Make the agent string stick in Safari

A while ago I posted about changing the agent string in Safari to allow you get access to the articals on Experts Exchange (search this site to find the original) Mac OSX Hints has the instructions on making this change stick. http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20090630112653430

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Top Powerpoint tip

When you insert clipart search for “png” and you come across a whole load of modern looking png files with nice transparency and shadows.

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