Canals of Copenhagen 26 May 2013 | 07:44 pm

Rooftops of Dubrovnik 26 Apr 2013 | 08:10 pm

Seventy per cent of the old town’s rooves were destroyed during the Balkan war in the early 90s; there is an almost uniform sea of orange visible from the town walls, sent from France as part of the U...

Replacing Google Reader with Fever 4 Apr 2013 | 12:08 am

Having used Google Reader daily (via Reeder and Flipboard), I was disappointed at the decision to close it, and so was looking for an alternative that would be less prone to implosion. Fever is a web-...

Alfred v2.x workflow for broadband speed 19 Mar 2013 | 12:08 pm

I use Alfred every day under OSX, admittedly primarily as an application launcher. Alfred’s developer touts the ability of the software to ‘create immensely powerful workflows by connecting keywords, ...

Aurora borealis over Reykjavík 19 Feb 2013 | 10:15 am

Download a KML file (530KB) for viewing in Google Earth, showing tracks at the key sites during this trip. Recorded with a GlobalSat BT-335; zoom right in! Iceland KML

Wake a Mac on LAN from Internet via iOS and PHP 25 Jan 2013 | 01:58 pm

LogMeIn is a useful remote control service: shame it doesn’t work when my home Mac has gone into power-saving sleep. I use an ADSL modem in bridge mode which provides a fixed public IP address to my A...

Colours of autumn 21 Oct 2012 | 10:00 pm

A whale of a tail 21 Oct 2012 | 02:50 am

Citation and bibliographic data 14 Oct 2012 | 04:42 am

I’ve had an on-and-off relationship with EndNote (OSX Win Web) since the early days when it came on a floppy disk. Back then only libraries had a CD-ROM drive for access to Medline, although most of u...

Citation and bibliographic data 14 Oct 2012 | 04:42 am

I’ve had an on-and-off relationship with EndNote (OSX Win Web) since the early days when it came on a floppy disk. Back then only libraries had a CD-ROM drive for access to Medline, although most of u...