Monthly Archives: August 2009

This weeks links (2009-08-31)

Posted on August 31, 2009 by visibleprocrastinations

Crayon Physics Crayon Physics Deluxe US$19.95/ c. AU$24 [Crayon Physics] – is a 2D physics puzzle / sandbox game, in which you get to experience what it would be like if your drawings would be magically transformed into real physical … Continue reading →

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Public Sphere #3

Posted on August 28, 2009 by visibleprocrastinations

#publicsphere camp no.3 in Wollongong … #publicsphere Melbourne Venue: Trinity College – The University of Melbourne in the Gourley Building. Please note, whilst many of these talks will be done at Wollongong, several are prerecorded, or done from Brisbane and … Continue reading →

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This weeks links (2009-08-24)

Posted on August 24, 2009 by visibleprocrastinations

Snow Season Though users of older Intel-based Macs were led to believe they would have to spend $169 to migrate from Tiger to Snow Leopard, new reports state the $29 upgrade disc will work just fine. … — Apple’s Snow … Continue reading →

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There was an error opening this document. File cannot be found (Acrobat Reader)

Posted on August 20, 2009 by visibleprocrastinations

My laptop has developed a new error, appearing in the last few days when opening PDF files from Firefox 3.5.2 using Acrobat Reader 9.1.3 in Windows XP. The following error appears when opening a PDF from a link “There was … Continue reading →

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This weeks links (2009-08-17)

Posted on August 17, 2009 by visibleprocrastinations

Social Media A few interesting links picked up via Twitter or FriendFeed … the beauty of Twitter is that it is only as useful as the person who is using it wants it to be. It is such a simple … Continue reading →

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Safari 4.0.3

Posted on August 12, 2009 by visibleprocrastinations

Apple have released Safari 4.0.3 for both OSX and Windows; About Safari 4.0.3 [1] * Version: 4.0.3 * Post Date: August 11, 2009 * Download ID: DL877 * File Size: 40MB (Leopard) 26MB (Tiger) 27MB (Windows) This update is recommended … Continue reading →

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Patch Tuesday Wednesday (AUG-2009)

Posted on August 12, 2009 by visibleprocrastinations

This month we have 9 new security bulletins, a restart will be required. This month, we released nine security bulletins. Five of those are rated Critical and four have an aggregate severity rating of Important. Of the nine updates, eight … Continue reading →

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This weeks links (2009-08-10)

Posted on August 10, 2009 by visibleprocrastinations

So, Facebook has acquired FriendFeed. But what does it mean? Well despite the rhetoric of some that this is a minor deal because FriendFeed’s audience was small compared to that of its acquirer Facebook, or even Twitter, this deal should … Continue reading →

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Patch Tuesday, a Heads Up. (Aug-2009)

Posted on August 10, 2009 by visibleprocrastinations

Next scheduled release: August 11, 2009 The heads up for this month is; On Tuesday 11th August (US time; Wednesday 12th August AU time) Microsoft expect to release six (6) new security bulletins, affecting supported versions of Windows, Virtual PC … Continue reading →

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