Stella Artois
That’s the name of the cat.
Seriously!
She’s the cat of one of our neighbours, but sometimes she comes over to pose and play. Quite the model, huh?
She always looks grumpy to me, though…
Reset iTunes Dimensions to Fit Resolution
Here’s a handy little feature that I find useful. If you ever play around with the size or location of the iTunes window and want to make it fit the screen better, simply follow the instructions:
- If you’re on Windows:
- hold Shift and either double-click the title bar or single-click the maximise button (The title bar is the small bar at the top that says “iTunes” in the middle.)
- If you’re on Mac OS:
- hold Option and click the Zoom (+) button
This’ll reset the size and position to its default for your screen resolution. Assuming you haven’t changed screen resolution since installing it, it’ll look just as it did when you first installed it — nearly filling the entire screen, but not quite. It’s also a very useful shortcut if you ever change your screen resolution.
Doing the operation a second time will move the iTunes window back to where it was before you started reading this article and messing with it. Simple!
Phoenix Wright — Ace Attorney: Trials and Tribulations Soundtrack Download
That was a mouthful of a title.
Over time I’ve played and thoroughly enjoyed the Ace Attorney series of games, from Phoenix Wright to Apollo Justice. But for those of you familiar to the series, you’ll notice that this is the soundtrack for the third game in the series. So why have I posted this one?
You see, this soundtrack posting has a small story behind it. A while back a perfectionist of a soundtrack ripper called TheRedPriest ripped the soundtrack and uploaded it to his website. He gets wound up by pops and blips in tracks — I can relate to that…
Anyway, unfortunately like so many good things on the web, the website went offline! Luckily, a member of the forum called GUI uploaded the soundtrack and all was good within the world.
Since I hate having just one mirror for things that have had so much time and effort put into them, and because I like the soundtrack so much, I decided to host the soundtrack for myself.
Just to make it clear: I did not rip this soundtrack or have any input in its ripping! I am but a simple mirror, wanting to preserve the great work of a video game soundtrack ripper.
Hope that everyone enjoys this as much as I do.
Download the Phoenix Wright — Ace Attorney: Trials and Tribulations soundtrack.
Boldly Growing
Here’s a rather funky photo I took at Mottisfont Abbey National Trust garden. I love the shape of this flower — I don’t think I’d seen anything quite like it until that day. Doesn’t it look like some kind of space-faring organism? I’ve probably seen something that looks like it in Star Trek…
It also seems to remind me of an enemy from Metroid… Although since I can’t remember the enemy or the real name of this plant, I’m just going to call it a Blooper for now.
Edit 2009-06-20: Boldly Growing is totally a better name.
Fix Windows Sidebar Gadget File Association in Vista
Have you ever somehow managed to break the Gadget file association in Windows Vista? I have somehow, and that means that you can no longer install gadgets. Double-clicking a .gadget file does nothing, and the Sidebar offers no option to install gadgets itself!
If you try to re-associate the files with Windows Sidebar by telling to Open With… and navigating to the Sidebar executable, you’ll have found that that doesn’t help — all it does is bring the Sidebar to focus, but doesn’t install the gadget.
Fortunately, help is at hand: all you need to do is download the following archive and apply the registry entries by double-clicking the .reg file inside the archive, and saying Yes at the prompt.
Download Gadget Association registry entries.
All I did was export the corresponding keys from the registry on a Vista machine with a working Sidebar — nothing else!
Hope this helps others like it has me.
