I love the ABC's new Q&A program. The public Q&A with Kevin Rudd was one hour of thoroughly interesting watching (and it also made obvious how good an orator Kevin Rudd is, but how that is also married with intellect and…

"Vista — I've got to get me some of that!". Yes, this is a real internal Microsoft motivational video… embarrassingly it is current day era.

One of the things that really annoys me about Apple Safari is that it doesn't use the CTRL+K / CMD+K keyboard shortcut for activating the Google Search dialogue box, which is standard across most browsers — particularly Safari.

Instead, Safari makes…

Ever wanted to change the desktop picture in Mac OS X by selecting the file in the Finder, right clicking and selecting "set as Desktop Picture" from a context menu?Or perhaps select some files, then "move files to a new…

Tech journo Danny Gorog has written a good piece about new sheet-fed scanners that can scan in your bills (even double-sided ones) and save them as PDFs on your computer, eliminating the stacks of unsorted paper we all build up on…

Apple Mail has an excruciatingly annoying bug related to URLs pasted in emails: in every other mail client, they're broken and unclickable.

Apparently this is because Apple Mail uses a relatively new email standard, the "delsp" parameter, which supposedly instructs other mail…

MacOSXtips.co.uk has published some very handy command line tips for customising OS X.

My favourites:

5. defaults write -g NSNavPanelExpandedStateForSaveMode -bool TRUE
Sets expanded save dialogs as default (showing column/list view of folders rather than a drop down menu). Replace TRUE with FALSE to…

Tim Gaden of Hawk Wings fame (and formerly of APC X-Factor fame, sniffle) has documented an excellent tip to speed up Apple Mail.

It involves optimising the SQLite database Apple Mail uses to store indexes and subject lines of emails.

You can check your…

OK, I admit the headline is inflammatory: internet sync may not be better than sliced bread. But it is such a useful feature in software that supports it, the mystery is why more developers aren't doing it.

I don't believe that…

It's one of the biggest thrills a journalist can experience: stumbling upon a scoop of worldwide relevance.

You hear a corporate executive say something in the midst of a stream of marketing fluff, and your adrenalin starts pumping… did I…

Via Fury and frost and Hawk Wings

Holy crap… what was Microsoft thinking when it designed the interface for the upcoming Office 12? If they're trying to make the user interface easier, they've got it badly, badly wrong.

Neb at Fury and…

Hello from downtown San Francisco, where I am for the Intel Developer Forum which is starting on Monday (US time… Tuesday Australian time).

Intel flew journos business class (the first time I've ever flown it internationally) and it really was an amazing…

Got a gripe about The Evil Empire? You can now submit your complaints and suggestions about their software via wikis hosted by Microsoft.

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