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Huaihai Lu Christmas Lights

Wednesday, 6 January 2010

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QuickCursor: Edit Web Page Text In A Real Editor

Tuesday, 5 January 2010

QuickCursor is a cool Mac utility that lets you easily edit the text in a web page via a real editor application. You just select the text box in the web page, click the QuickCursor MenuExtra to select an editor, QuickCursor will copy the contents of the text box to a temporary file and open the file in your editor, hack on your text and when you save the text is copied back to the text box in the browser. Doesn’t seem to work in Firefox but Safari works fine. It’s open source too. Very cool. See the…

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Music Made On A Sony Ericsson S500c

Monday, 4 January 2010

Playing around with the Sony Ericsson S500c, I tried out the built-in MusicDJ app. Similiar to GarageBand it allows the user to build up a song in blocks. It’s a bit fiddly trying to compose on such a small screen and it’s really something that you need to do either with headphones on or away from other people. MusicDJ uses MIDI rather than real audio clips to keep the file sizes small but it is possible to convert to audio as follows. I transferred the file to my Mac (by emailing it to myself from the phone)…

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