http://itglo.ws Tech, the universe, and everything shiny Wed, 20 Feb 2008 03:28:17 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I must point out the stupidity of FirePower. I'm not going to write anything more about them than you can already gather from reading Dan's Blog. This post is merely to provide another mirror of the PDF sent to Dan that he was ordered first to publish, then to remove. Enough ... http://itglo.ws/2008/02/20/mirroring-for-fun-and-profit.html 26th October, 2007: Apple finally releases Leopard, Mac OS X 10.5. Of course, how could any mac user not jump at the chance to get their hands on one of the first copies of a brand new operating system. In preparation, a brand new hard drive in the MacBook Pro ... http://itglo.ws/2007/11/08/leopard-first-look.html Those who know me well know that I am obsessive-compulsive when it comes to organisation. Unless that organisation involves my finances. I’ll admit, I’m an impulse shopper, and a hopeless organiser of my own money.That could be all set to change, thanks to a handy-dandy piece of open source ... http://itglo.ws/2007/05/10/quick-review-buddi.html Ever wondered what those .DS_Store files on your network drives are? They are simply metadata about folders such as window and icon positioning, etc.They will usually appear on network drives that are accessed by mac users with write access (even if they don’t add or modify anything to the file ... http://itglo.ws/2007/05/05/ds_store-files.html Wow, what a turnaround from yesterday! After this announcement from Kevin Rose, founder of Digg, it appears that everything is back to normal, and that the admins will stand behind the community in their defiance of the DMCA takedown notices.I guess I jumped the gun in assuming that Digg would take this ... http://itglo.ws/2007/05/03/kevin-rose-digg-rise-above.html As the first post to this new blog, I’m disappointed that I choose to start on a negative note. Unfortunately, this is an issue which affects not only Australians, but many others in the developed world.I’m talking about the pricing of Apple computers for sale in Australia. There are currently ... http://itglo.ws/2006/07/07/apple-gouges-australians.html