http://lemlink.com.au Tony Lembke's site for Mac, iPhone, Rails, Wedgetail and other stuff Thu, 13 May 2010 08:24:41 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 'Impossible motion' trick wins Illusion Contest - physics-math - 11 May 2010 - New Scientist Don't believe your eyes. The Best Visual illusion of the Year Contest is a celebration of the ingenuity and creativity of the world’s premier visual illusion research community. As reported in New Scientist, this year's winner was ... http://lemlink.com.au/2010/05/impossible-motion-trick-wins-best-viusal-illusion-of-the-year/ Five customized Automator services to help save you time is now available on the TUAW site. Some cool tips to provide Ctrl-Click actions to Email a selected file in the finder Automatically create a thumbnail of an image Automatically create a bit.ly link Print selecetd files Start Keynote Slideshow (Via The Unofficial Apple WebLog.) http://lemlink.com.au/2010/02/five-customized-automator-services-to-help-save-you-time/ Rather than miss out on day's skiing in Habuka, we decided to visit the Jigokokudani Snow Monkey Park as a detour on our trip back to Tokyo on the last day of our holiday - needing to still make the strict deadline for the 8:25pm Jetstar flight. Summary The monkey onsen ... http://lemlink.com.au/2010/01/habuka-to-narita-tokyo-via-snow-monkey-onsen-at-jigokokudani/ It is easy to add a hyperlink to an Apple Mail message. Select the text that you would like to be the 'linking text', and control-click on it. In the pop-up window, scroll and select link. Easy. On one occasion, when control-clicking in a message, I had another option 'Import Image' in the pop-up ... http://lemlink.com.au/2010/01/how-to-add-a-link-or-hyperlink-in-an-apple-mail-message/ When you need to tell someone about your YouTube creation, you can send a link - but it is cool to have the video 'embedded' in your email. The message will then display the 'poster image' of your video, and allow the recipient to just to click 'play'. Apple Mail does ... http://lemlink.com.au/2010/01/how-to-embed-a-youtube-video-in-an-apple-mail-message/ Up until now, I thought my Fisher space pen was the ultimate in pen geek, especially when combined with the hipsterPDA. But, alas, it has been usurped by the Smartpen. (http://smartpen.com.au) - A computer in a pen! With the Smartpen , you can take notes, like an ordinary pen. (the Smartpen requires ... http://lemlink.com.au/2009/11/the-smartpen/ Upgrading to Snow Leopard installs a new version of php.(5.3.0) The php.ini file, which should be at /etc/php.ini, will need to be created. You do this by editing /etc/php.ini.default, and renaming it to php.ini. The changes required are 1) add the correct time zone, [Date] ; Defines the default timezone used by the date ... http://lemlink.com.au/2009/11/snow-leopard-mysql-and-php/ I recently had a crash on an old PowerPC server and had to reinstall Leopard and Rails 2.3. It is not as straight forward as one would hope - here are the steps. Install Leopard Install XCode 3.0 from the Leopard DVD Note that the CHUD part of the XCode install consistently ... http://lemlink.com.au/2009/07/rails-23-and-mysql-on-leopard/ [caption id="attachment_18" align="alignleft" width="150" caption="Thumbnails"][/caption]What we want A thumbnail image to be displayed along with the summary of each recent article on the 'home page' of the site, but a full size image used when the article is displayed on its own single page. There may be other ways to do ... http://lemlink.com.au/2009/04/summaries-and-thumbnails-on-home-page-in-wordpress/ The Cult of Done Manifesto Thanks Julian for sending me this link! http://lemlink.com.au/2009/04/the-cult-of-done-manifesto/