Tom Goskar

Archaeologist, researcher, curator and folklorist

Author: Tom Goskar

  • iMovie ’08 on a 1.8GHz single processor G5

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    According to the system requirements for Apple’s newest incarnation of iLife (iLife ’08), iMovie ’08 shouldn’t work on my machine (an ‘original’ 2003 1.8GHz SP G5 with 1GB RAM). The installer runs a system check before it installs iLife (as it did on my G4 laptop) to see if your system meets the minimum requirements…

  • iPod woes

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    Recently, my 2 year old 4G iPod broke. I was listening to a podcast whilst walking to work when the audio froze. I took it out of my pocket and found that everything had frozen – the UI as well as playback. I tried to reset it on the move, but nothing could unfreeze it.…

  • Embedding Google Maps Just Became Easier

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    Embedding a Google Map into your website just became much, much easier. Gone are the days of signing up for an API key and fumbling through the “Hello World” example, just so that you can show directions to your house. It’s now as easy as embedding a YouTube video – all done with a snippet…

  • Testing Ecto 3 alpha

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    Way back in the dim and distant past, before my other blog, Past Thinking, began to focus solely upon heritage matters, I reviewed Ecto 2. Now, 2 years later, I’m writing this with the alpha version of Ecto 3. This isn’t a full review – this is really just a test drive of the alpha…

  • Cleaning up Word HTML

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    Today, whilst building a new data downloads section for the Archaeology at Heathrow T5 website, I had to convert a load of Word documents full of tables and subheadings into beautiful xHTML Strict for pages in a WordPress environment. Normally, I’d open the files in Word 2004 (on a Mac), save them as HTML, then…

  • Moving and internet access

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    I’ve been a bit slow on the old blogging front lately, due mainly to the fact that I’ve been without an internet connection at home for a month now. Tehmina and I have moved house, and Demon Internet still don’t seem able to cope particularly well with moves. They cut us off 3 weeks before…

  • Fed up with iPhone news and hype?

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    The question has to be asked of the iPhone – will it blend? Combine an iPhone and an extremely efficient blender…

  • Spiders and eBay

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    My curiosity got the better of me today when I opened my Netvibes homepage to see the Digg headline of “HUGE Spider Hides Behind Clock (pics)“. I followed the link, and sure enough, there’s a story of a huge huntsman spider hiding behind a clock, with just four hairy legs poking out from around the…

  • I’m featured on a 3D software company website

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    E-On software, developers of Vue 6 Infinite, my 3D package of choice for landscape visualisation, are running a feature on my recent work. It’s quite nice to have been picked by them to show off what the software can do. But I am left with a little sour taste in my mouth. The latest “update”…

  • Zooomr Mark III launched

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    [Update] I can’t log back in after the first time – all I’m getting is a blank page. Apparently they’re swamped with interest, and things are being ironed out. Just a quick message to say that Zooomr has relaunched! When I’ve used it a bit more, I’ll post a review of it here. If you’re…