Daily Grind

For my next invention - an airbag for an iPhone. The iPhone has accelerometers in it - so it could detect if it was falling to the ground, and therefore deploy a mini airbag, to prevent any damage. A bit like the Mars landing craft.
Genius.

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Ah, such a shame, time for a new phone as my current one is starting to fail (the little joystick on the Sony Ericcson is sticking) - so I have an excuse to get an iPhone! My cousin’s also looking at writing some iPhone apps and I said that I would help out.
Favourite apps so [...]

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The new version of iTunes (8) is pretty good. I had some doubts about what Apple are going to be doing with all of my music library.
One feature is pretty cool - Genius. It’s a bit like Pandora (before they only allowed USA listeners) - it recommends tracks and makes new playlists. Here’s an example [...]

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Post-edit: here
To be picked up by a Google search, I hope:
Stuck on the Centaurs level. I need a savegame for the Mac (Apple), not the PC or any other platform.
Argh. Here’s mine, so far. You need to copy it to this directory:
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/Eidos/Tomb Raider - Anniversary/Default Profile
If you’re after advice, then you can find it here.

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For my reference only (Leopard 10.5.2):
sudo nano /etc/apache2/httpd.conf
uncomment following line:
LoadModule php5_module libexec/apache2/libphp5.so
Then restart apache.
Put files in /Library/WebServer/Documents/
This also led me to figure out where the damn hash key (#) might be hiding on the MacBook!

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Some useful utilities that I’ve been using. Noted for reference here, in case I forget them:
Flickr Uploadr (v3) - uploading images to Flickr
Smultron - simple text editor
SmallImage2 - batch conversion of images (wish it could convert to other graphic formats as well, like Graphic Convertor)
Adium - for Google Chat, MSN etc.
iStat Pro - widget for [...]

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