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  Podcasting in Thailand: more to come?

  Database, Graham K. Rogers, Published on 14/07/2010

  » Recently, Apple changed the iTunes store for Thai users and added Podcasts to the App store and iTunesU. This was long overdue. A podcast is a video or audio file sent out by its creator at intervals. It can be played on a computer or a suitable player, such as an iPod or iPhone.

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  Steganography on the Mac: Hiding data in images

  Database, Graham K. Rogers, Published on 21/07/2010

  » Although the analytical computer was theorised by Alan Turing in 1936 and some of his work was critical in the devices used for decryption of messages created by the Enigma machines of the Axis Powers. His "bombes" and the later Colossus were the first computers. Encryption, therefore, was part and parcel of the birth of the computer. Colossus was destroyed on orders of Churchill, but was rebuilt at Bletchley Park by Tony Sale.

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  Opening screen of PicSecret

  Database, Graham K. Rogers, Published on 28/07/2010

  » There has recently been much interest in the idea of hiding information within images: steganography. I have looked at some of applications available for Macs. There are few steganography programs for OS X, but there is much software for other platforms. With Open Source roots, some need compiling. An excellent source for ideas on this subject (and for sources) is Johnson and Johnson (http://www.jjtc.com/): these are technology consultants and not the baby powder people.

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  Latest Mac mini packs more power

  Database, Graham K. Rogers, Published on 04/08/2010

  » As soon as the Mac mini was released back in 2007, I wanted to get my hands on one. In the end I had three. They were billed as the basic Mac and users were able to use the same mouse and USB keyboard they had for a PC.

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  Fine-tune your printing calibration

  Database, Graham K. Rogers, Published on 23/06/2010

  » A few months ago, I interviewed Danai Chutinaton at Blue Pano, whose nice panorama images are used by several local companies for promotion purposes. He recently got in touch and sent me links to panoramas of the Siam area. He told me he had taken delivery of a new 44" Epson printer, which was installed in his new office near Samitivej Hospital. A few days later I called in, just in time to see a print job being wrapped up (http://www.bluepano.com).

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  Apple's unreasonableness keeps it competitive

  Database, Graham K. Rogers, Published on 30/06/2010

  » A week after the Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), Apple moved on. Safari 5 was out, the iPhone 4 was coming and iOS4 was announced for June 21. Analysts pored over the information - some second-hand and incomplete - the pundits predicted the end of the Mac, while the rest of us sat back to wait for what came next. We did not wait long.

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  iOS4 installation and Notes on the iPhone 4 release

  Database, Graham K. Rogers, Published on 07/07/2010

  » I had really been looking forward to the iPhone update, known as iOS4, since it was outlined by Apple. A number of features looked as if they would be useful. Some of these brought iPad tricks to the smaller devices. It was developed for the new iPhone 4, of course, and is optimised for that device. Fewer features are available for earlier iPhones. Those before the 3G (and early iPod touch devices) could not install the update at all.

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  A Mini adventure on the Mac

  Database, Graham K. Rogers, Published on 11/08/2010

  » I have been running the latest Mac Mini in my home and at my office for the past few days and in this time have reminded myself of what a useful computer this is. I resisted the adjective, "little" in that last sentence as that demeans the device. Compact is more to the point. As with the previous versions, its dimensions give a user flexibility with regard to location.

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  A perfect relationship _ for a while

  Database, Graham K. Rogers, Published on 18/08/2010

  » Some may think that with all the Macs I have written about over the past few years, everything works perfectly. My own Macs have all behaved well. My first modern Mac, which I bought in early 2002, still performs sterling duty in the hands of a friend. After three years of great service from my 2.16Ghz MacBook Pro, it was an easy decision to move to the current 2.66Ghz version with the i7 processor.

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  When your kernel panics, you should try not to

  Database, Graham K. Rogers, Published on 14/04/2010

  » While I was thinking about how new users deal with the move to OS X, one wrote to me with a question: What is a Kernel Panic? The Kernel is the core of the operating system, linking the computer's hardware components to the software.

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