Monthly Archives: March 2009

Bizarre Error Message of the Day

Courtesy of buggy-as-hell Soundtrack Pro: An Unexpected Problem CNSExceptionWrapper type = 16777216, error = 0, message = REFERENCE WAS SOMEHOW RELEASED TOO MANY TIMES … somehow released too many times? Like a repeat offender?

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How to Produce a Great Video Tutorial

Some very handy hints on creating a tutorial screencast over at AETuts.

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Wacom Intuos 4

John Nack over at Adobe is waxing lyrical over the new tablet from – who else? – Wacom. The Intuos 4 has a click wheel, à la the old style iPods. Now if only they’d fix that clunky system preference … Continue reading

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Zoetrope

An amazing demo of Zoetrope, which allows a user to navigate a webpage back in time and use “time lenses” to link disparate sources, thereby detecting correlations and trends. OK so my explanation makes no sense. Just go and watch … Continue reading

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Espresso 1.0

The code-bunnies at MacRabbit have released Espresso 1.0, an HTML and general purpose editor. It’s been in beta for some time, and it looks very promising. (They’re also the creators of CSSEdit, which is so tasty it hurts.)

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Watch ProRes Movies Without the Codec

Codec? What the hell kind of word is codec? Well, it’s a contraction of the words “Compression” and “Decompression” (in much the same way modem is a conjunction of “Modulator” and “Demodulator”, but that’s another long, boring story). When you … Continue reading

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The Google to Introduce “Interest Based Advertising”

So, advertising behemoth The Google1 will start showing ads targeted at you. Up until now, ads placed by Google reflected the content of the page they were in – if you visited a page about the history of the pogo … Continue reading

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New Adobe Illustrator Blog

From none other than the Adobe Illustrator team themselves … a blog called Infinite Resolution. Because you can, erm, zoom in on it. Forever. Via John Nack on Adobe.

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Safari 4 Beta and Rails Apps

For some reason Safari 4 Beta broke the CSS on our intranet’s Rails app. On closer inspection, it appeared to have been confused by the “cache killer” – the random number appended to external CSS and JavaScript urls. This tip from … Continue reading

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New Mac Centre in Surry Hills

I’ve long been a customer of Mac Centre in Sydney, and now it’s moved to a perilously convenient location: the corner of Foveaux and Commonwealth streets. The lure of software and sandwiches from Taste may prove my downfall.

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