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iPod to the rescue

Monday 16th January, 2006 Leave a Comment

What an embarrasing weekend. I got up early Saturday morning – 7am, getting ready to head to the airport to meet my sister who was on her way home after having been in the UK on a teacher exchange for the last 12 months or so. Her flight from Bangkok was due in at 7:40am, … [Read More »]

Filed Under: Travel

A new tax world

Monday 16th January, 2006 Leave a Comment

John Garnaut writes a great piece on redesigning the Australian tax system to be simpler, cheaper, and fairer. Have a butchers at this: a new tax world WHEN Peter Costello returned from holidays and resolved to earn the right to be prime minister, he stuck a great sheet of butcher’s paper on his office wall … [Read More »]

Filed Under: Investing

SecureFX – SFTP client

Monday 16th January, 2006 Leave a Comment

For files transfers and remote file management, I use SecureFX v3.0.4 from Van Dyke. It’s an FTP and SFTP client (SFTP is a secure FTP protocol that protects your credentials when connecting to the server – plan FTP send the credentials unencrypted, which is a security hazard). The SecureFX client application lets you choose between … [Read More »]

Filed Under: General

Xara Webstyle v4

Sunday 15th January, 2006 Leave a Comment

I use Xara Webstyle v4 to create most of the headings and graphics on my websites. I’m no graphic designer, so I find it a very useful tool to get me great looking scalable headings, buttons and other essential graphics for my websites. I’ve used Xara WebStyle since about v2 and I love the simplicity … [Read More »]

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Thunderbird v1.5 released

Saturday 14th January, 2006 Leave a Comment

Mozilla Thunderbird v1.5 has been released. I use Thunderbird for my personal POP email. I currently manage about 15 email addresses through Thunderbird (I have too many webmaster accounts and such !!). Thunderbird makes it all pretty easy to do. New features I like in Thunderbird v1.5 are the much improved message filters management interface … [Read More »]

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