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What follows is a step by step guide to exactly how I achieved the stylesheet switcher on ClockRocket.
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<h3>Preparations</h3>
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It's the bain of every Web Developers life. The one thing that would make all our lives just that little bit nicer. Proper support for PNG's in all common web browsers.
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I'd kind of gotten over the fact that Internet Explorer doesn't, and probably never will, support alpha transparent PNG files. I guess it's because Microsoft don't see the need for them on their site.
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<p>Ok, so I'd be the first to admit that Apples iPod and iPod Mini are two sexy looking bits of kit, but I'd never buy one. In response to <a href="http://blog.codefront.net/">Cheah Chu Yeow</a>'s <a href="http://blog.codefront.net/archives/2004/08/09/iwish_ihad_an_ipod_mini.php">post</a> pointing to '<a href="http://reviews.cnet.com/4520-6450_7-5102324-1.html">Five reasons not to buy an iPod</a>', here are my reasons. Ironically none of them are the same as any of the five given in the article (well, maybe one!).</p>
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<li><h4>It won't play any of my music.</h4><p>I made a conscious choice quite a while ago to encode all of my music in <a href="http://www.vorbis.com/">Ogg Vorbis</a> format, which has some advantages over MP3. Better quality at the same bitrates, sample granularity for perfect gapless playback, and open source so I know I can always play my music on any platform (at least that's the idea). The iPod will not play this format, rendering it pretty useless to me. And yes, I've seen the <a href="http://ipodlinux.sourceforge.net/">iPod Linux project</a>!</p></li>
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<blockquote>"The world went and got itself in a big damn hurry"</blockquote>
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It was while walking to the shop this lunch time that I came to the realisation that we all really are in a big damn hurry all the time. I myself was striding quickly in order that I had enough time to make my sandwich and get back to work. The amount I do in a week is really quite scary (besides going to work and sleeping), and I know I'm not the only one. What is it about our society these days that makes us fill all our available time, leaving none for the important things like just sitting, and contemplating life? I personally can't remember the last time I just had a moment to sit and look at the waves in the sea, or watch the sun go down, and I miss it.
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I like my <a href="http://www.sonyericsson.com/spg.jsp?cc=gb&lc=en&ver=4000&template=pp1_loader&php=php1_10117&zone=pp&lm=pp1&pid=10117">Sony Ericsson T630</a>, but, as I'm due for an upgrade, I've been scouting round to see what I can get instead.
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After a brief flirt with the idea of an <a href="http://www.sonyericsson.com/spg.jsp?cc=gb&lc=en&ver=4000&template=pp1_loader&php=php1_10140&zone=pp&lm=pp1&pid=10140">S700i</a>, I noticed that Sony Ericsson have announced a new model that fits my ideals much better. I was never keen on the idea of having a phone with moving parts, especially ones that involve some kind of electrical connection. I remember too well the fiasco with the <a href="http://www.nokia.com/phones/7110/">Nokia 7110</a> and it's wholly unreliable sliding mechanism.
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Yay! The parts have turned up for my media box. I'm building a machine to sit next to the TV and Hi-Fi, solely to store and play music and video. At some point I'll add a Digital TV card so the machine can do TiVo like duties for us.
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Anyway, here's what I ordered:
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Well, the parts for my media box project arrived last week so I spent the weekend putting it together and configuring Ubuntu Linux to perform media box type duties. The Software side is far from complete, but the machine build went smoothly and is documented here.
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Here's all the components laid out on the table, ready:
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<em><strong>Update 2</strong>: NeoMPC now has it's <a title="NeoMPC" href="/neompc/">own page</a>.</em>
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<a href="http://www.musicpd.org">MPD (Music Player Daemon)</a> is a great little app that runs in the background on your Linux box and plays music. You control it with a client of some sort; currently available are GTK and QT based clients for the desktop, web based clients written in PHP, and command line based clients, one of which uses ncurses. It supports many music file formats, as well as gapless playback (essential in my opinion) and crossfading. It's also very lightweight and doesn't use much resources.
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NeoMPC 0.2 is now available for <a href="http://neompc.googlecode.com/files/neompc-0.2.tar.bz2">download</a>. This is the first release of my <a href="http://www.pixelhum.com/archives/2005-05-12/pocket-mpd-client/"><acronym title="Music Player Daemon">MPD</acronym> Client</a> which is designed for a small screen device like a <acronym title="Personal Digital Assistant">PDA</acronym> or a mobile phone (although it's taylored specifically for a screen 240 pixels wide, I might change it in the future to be a little more flexible).
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<em><strong>Update</strong>: NeoMPC now has it's <a title="NeoMPC" href="/neompc/">own page</a>.</em>
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You'll need to be running Apache or Apache2 with <acronym title="PHP Hypertext Preprocessor">PHP</acronym> 4 (It's developed on <acronym title="PHP Hypertext Preprocessor">PHP</acronym> 4.3.10 but 4+ should be fine) on your <acronym title="Music Player Daemon">MPD</acronym> server. Running it should be as simple as extracting it to the apache directory (or other web server accessible directory) and navigating to it with your browser.
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Well, I'm sitting here with my shiny new PowerBook on my lap, typing this entry. So far the experience has been good. The machine itself is a great example of minimalist design, and consequently it's sleek and very functional.
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The OS is quite fantastic. To someone coming from Windows it's a breath of fresh air. Windows fly around the screen in drop shadowed, translucent glory and the Dashboard and Exposé makes things woosh around the screen in a wonderful way.
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I've been using my Powerbook for about 3 weeks now, and I'm enjoying it immensely. The OS is slick and quite intuative, although coming from Windows I've had quite a lot to get used to! The overall experience has so far been very positive.
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I can't quite decide which browser to use; the choices being Safari, Firefox and Camino so far. Safari is nice from an OS integration point of view, and the RSS features work well. I've been used to Firefox on Windows and as such it feels very familiar on OS X but still well integrated. Camino lies somewhere in between, with the same wonderful rendering engine as Firefox and an excellent Cocoa interface it would seem the perfect choice, but I can't quite let go of Firefox!
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Just a few notes in this one today. I'm still enjoying the Mac OS experience, but I have a few gripes to make. Mainly things that I'd like to see added, features I've got used to on other systems.
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Quicktime 7 is great, streamed video's are sharp and play smoothly with little to no skipping and stuttering. Just one thing really; Why should I have to pay for Quicktime Pro to be able to play my video's fullscreen? I can understand why they might want you to pay for features like the ability to create, edit and convert video files (although doesn't iMovie do all that stuff too?). £20 is quite a lot of money to add a fullscreen feature, especially when I've paid over £1,000 for the machine itself. Would it really hurt to make Quicktime Pro free? Or at least make fullscreen a free feature.
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So far, the one thing that has been bugging the hell out of me with OS X is the mouse control panel. On Windows I used to just switch the acceleration off altogether, as I'm firmly in the camp that believes the mouse pointer should follow the mouse 1:1. In fact, I even had a registry hack that disabled mouse acceleration completely, even when the 'Enhance pointer precision' option was checked. While we're on that subject, who decided on the name of that option anyway?!?
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This post was inspired by Michael Heilemanns <a href="http://binarybonsai.com/archives/2005/08/19/mastering-your-mouse-in-os-x/">recent mouse related post</a>, and I completely agree that the mouse control panel in OS X seems to lack a lot of the options it needs. I can understand that Apple probably want it to be simple, so why not include the more advanced controls; acceleration curve etc, behind a button marked 'Advanced'?
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Since buying my Powerbook 6 months ago, I can't help feeling that Apple products are currently a bit form over function. Don't get me wrong--I love my Powerbook, and the Mac OS is well designed, slick and easy to use--but it often seems as though features that might seem fundamental in other apps are just left out, perhaps because they want to sell you a 'Pro' version with that feature and many others (Quicktime is one good example) or just because said feature ruins the lines of the suit, as it were.
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iPhoto is one such application that appears to have features missing, mainly the ability to view photos full screen (without running a slideshow), and I've also noticed that the photo order within a slideshow reflects the order you have them displayed in thumbnail view so if, like me, you like to see the latest photos at the top, your slideshows will run in reverse chronological order, with no apparent way to change this.
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<img class="left" src="/images/wifi.png" />I decided a week ago, while in B&Q, to add a PCI Wireless network card to my main PC. I was originally planning to run cables from the corner of the lounge where the router is located, to the back bedroom where the computers are situated.
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So I decided to pack that one back in it's box and return it, and promptly ordered a Netgear WG311T from Amazon.co.uk. 'Can't go wrong with a Netgear' I thought. Oh, how wrong could I be...
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There's *two* spaces between `-march=i686` and `-msse`, and again between `-mfpmath=sse` and `-pipe` and these cause the compile process to think that the build environment has changed somewhere down the line. Stupid bloody CFLAGS parser.
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For part 2 of my diary I thought it would be a good idea to give a run down of my setup. It's all under the fold though so if you're not interested don't click ;). Plugin list next time...
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I'm using a custom built PC (one of my many talents!) with an AMD Athlon 64 X2 dual core CPU and 2gb RAM. This gives me plenty of headroom for plugins, which is nice :).
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I recently had to install PostgreSQL on Snow Leopard with PHP support for development. It took some fiddling and a re-install when I screwed up a dependency but I eventually managed to do it! I thought I'd document the process here for anybody else in the same boat.
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My first approach was to install PostgreSQL using the one click installer from EnterpriseDB and recompiling PHP from scratch, but I scrapped that in favour of installing it via Homebrew, and only compiling the necessary PHP extensions.
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This being my first ever iPhone I didn't really know what to expect. I've played with earlier models that belong to friends but it's not quite the same when you can't fully explore it. All I knew was that I wanted one.
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There's lots of nice little touches everywhere in the OS. I keep discovering little shortcuts and ways of doing things. Nothing seems to be too well hidden to find it yourself. For example, I like the way the calculator changes to the scientific layout when the iPhone is landscape oriented. It's all these little things that make using the device such a joy.
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One of my favourite albums is Marillion's "Misplaced Childhood". I wore out the cassette tape (remember them?) listening to it and I knew the album inside out. When I first listened to it on CD I noticed things I hadn't heard before, particularly the singers wail as the guitar solo started, so I had to go back and listen to the tape again to see if it was there which, of course, it was.
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Since upgrading from my trusty Sennheiser CX400's to the Apple In-Ear's I've heard things that I've never noticed before. The faint echo of Imogen Heap's voice in "Hide and Seek". The tail of the vocal delay in Def Leppard's "All I Want is Everything". It's weird, but in a good way. They're bringing out details that seemed buried before.
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In light of Google's recent announcement that they will be [shuttering Reader (among other things)](http://googleblog.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/a-second-spring-of-cleaning.html) I've decided that it's time to move away from Gmail and reduce my reliance on any services provided by Google.
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I've been working for a Ruby on Rails consultancy in London called [New Bamboo](http://www.new-bamboo.co.uk) for nearly 12 months now, and it's been excellent. The people I work with are awesome and I'm learning new things every day. I'm also finding opportunities to teach others which is great, and I fully intend to do more of it.
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About the same time as Steve Jobs was wowing the crowds with the launch of the first Mac I had one of these bad boys. The Sinclair ZX81 was the successor to the ZX80 and was designed first and foremost to be low cost (costing £69.95 fully assembled or £49.95 in kit form). It had just 1Kb of RAM, no sound capabilities and low resolution monochrome graphics. The machine could not run at full speed and also maintain the display so it would flicker every time you pressed a key or the machine did a calculation. You could switch it to 'SLOW' mode which would make the computer concentrate on maintaining the display at the expense of slowing the running program down. Despite all these limitations the ZX81 was very successful and sold over 1.5 million units.
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The ZX Spectrum was the successor the popular ZX81 and was first released in 1982. The first model had 16Kb or 48Kb of RAM and a simple beeper for sound. It came with the rubber key membrane keyboard that made it famous. It was better than the keyboard on the ZX81 but still not great.
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