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25 Mar 2008 @ 22:34

Set Icon, The Initial Release

After literally tens of emails from people having problems applying the ‘My Book Icons’ to their external hard drives I came to the decision that I needed to write some software to make the whole process a little easier. The result of this decision and a couple of (short) days work is Set Icon.

You may remember from my previous tutorial that setting a custom hard drive icon (correctly) required some Terminal wizardry and some extra command line tools. Set Icon…

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Posted
21 Mar 2008 @ 19:49

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Website, Graphics, Downloads, Mac

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My Book Icons 0.7

It must be that time of the year again, I’m on holiday so I’ve started to update all of the downloads I maintain. The first of these updates, and the one most requested, are the vertical orientation icons for the new Western Digital My Book drives. You can download the new version of these icons from the downloads page. I am planning on updating iSyncIt in the next few weeks too.

The website has also undergone a bit of an update, nothing major, just a few tw…

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Posted
08 Mar 2008 @ 23:47

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Mac, Advice

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The Advantages Of Time Machine

I wasn’t sure about Time Machine when it was announced, sure it was great to have regular, up-to-date backups with no effort but I couldn’t believe that restoring would be as easy as Apple said it would be. Unfortunately I had a chance to test Time Machine to it’s fullest in the week just gone.

My iMac was feeling a little sluggish so I ran the cleanup scripts in a program called OnyX, the program has never let me down before but as the scripts were running I noticed the whole contents of my home directory beginni…

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Posted
19 Feb 2008 @ 21:13

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Ruby on Rails, Extras

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rFlickr And Rails 2.0

Any of you that followed my tutorial on setting up rFlickr and have subsequently upgraded to Ruby on Rails 2.0 may have noticed some server errors on your photo pages, this is due to the fact that a single line of code in rFlickr does not work correctly with Rails 2.0.

You can download the hopefully fixed rFlickr from digitalpardoe.co.uk/downloads/rflickr/rflickr.zip. Simply unzip this file into your rails applications ‘vendor/plugins’ director…

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Posted
19 Feb 2008 @ 20:58

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Website, Ruby on Rails

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Ruby On Rails 2.0

Rails 2.0 has been out for a couple of months now, I had refrained from upgrading to it because I wasn’t sure what it would break. After putting the website under version control I decided it was too easy not to upgrade to Rails 2.0, so here it is, a website that looks and runs exactly like it did and only a few problems to be found.

To go along with the upgrade I have also added a couple of new features to the website, the photography page now links to my Flick…

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