Category: General

Well, I certainly learned a few more Google tricks!

CyberWyre >> Advanced Google Tips

For future reference:

• Use quotation marks
• mark esstial words with a +
• omit unwanted words with a –

Use these with a url;

• site:theconsultant.net – search only on this site
• related:theconsultant.net – find related sites
• link:theconsultant.net – who links to this site?
• cache:theconsultant.net – show the cached version, highlight search words.
• info:theconsultant.net

Others;

• filetype:PDF – search for results only in PDF files
• daterange: use a julian date. – what’s a Julian date range?
• allinurl: and inurl: – search only or partly in a url
• allintitle: and intitle: – search only or partly in page titles
• allinlinks: – search only in page links
• allintext: – search only in page text

Thanks Matt!

I was stumbling through a big pile of mail this morning and wanted to search for all messages whose subject did not contain a certain keyword. It turns out you can do some decent searching in Mail.

Straight from the Help:

When you search entire messages, you can refine your search by using logical symbols to represent “and” (&), “or” ( | ), “not” ( ! ), and parentheses. For example:

“cat & dog” finds messages containing both “cat” and “dog”

“cat | dog” finds messages containing either “cat” or “dog”

“cat ! dog” finds messages containing “cat” but not “dog”

“cat & (dog | newt)” finds messages containing both “cat” and “dog” and messages containing both “cat” and “newt”

Fully buzzword compliant gadget!

“Ear-Mounted, super-bright LED personal illuminator. Up to one mile visibility – weighs just 18 grams! … Overdriven, super-bright Nichea LED module features a parabolic reflector and precision focusing lens … reversible and adjustible ear loop allows use with or without glasses on left or right ears … useable runtime of over 36 hours … no distracting side flare. Easily lights anything and everything you look at … Works under water includes batteries!”

Now I know what i’ll get blinded by the next time I go camping.. it’s not just those head mounted lamps anymore! *sigh*

I want a red one!

RadTech Products – I-Sight – Ear-Mounted LED Light

I made some minor changes to the default stylesheet to have blocks of code no longer overflow the edge of the page.

Changes were based on the stylesheet I found at
http://www.bigbold.com/snippets/stylesheets/posts.css.

I added in the following:

pre {
        border: 1px solid #333;
        padding: 6px;
        overflow: auto;
        margin: 0px 1%;
        width: 95%;
        }

Thanks to the Snippets public code repository.

Changes and suggestions welcome!

Going beyond the transparent desktop.. with Quartz Composer and a video camera!

“We’ve all seen that spiffy “transparent” desktop hack on the net. But thats ancient history. Here is a quicktime movie of a “live” transparent desktop.”

How to Make a “Live” Transparent Desktop

My friend Michael got his article published …

His perspective on why the new Amiga hardware is based on the PowerPC chips instead of Intel.

“Synopsis:
The economic well being of the Amiga market demands a system that is not in direct competition with the Wintel world. Running on Intel hardware will jeopardise the viability of OS4 by placing it into direct competition with Windows. Intel derived hardware raises issues of support costs and financial return for the vendor.”

The Case for PowerPC

Apple announced that within the next 2 years they will have completed the transition from using the PowerPC to machines based on Intel’s CPU’s.

I never thought i would see the day… now I am extremely curious as to what the changes *inside* the box are going to be.

“The soul of a Mac is its operating system.” Steve Jobs, WWDC, June 6th 2005