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The problem is how to get an old HP ScanJet 3400c (c. 2000) scanner working with a MacBook running OS X 10.6.7 Snow Leopard. Annoyingly I did all this once about 6 months ago but since my Mac got nicked and I didn’t make any notes I’ve now got to remember how to do it [...]

I keep coming across amazing tilt shift images. If you’ve never heard of this, it’s a photographic technique for creating a shallow depth of field (using lenses or digital post-processing) and can be used to turn a suitable photo into a fake miniature. There are many ways to do this using the digital post-processing route [...]

I saw a friend had a tag cloud on his web page of all his 2009 Facebook status updates. So, here’s mine. First, you need to get your word list. Go to this Facebook app and get the data, then strip out the date/time column in your spreadsheet program (I used OpenOffice) and finally paste [...]

Here are pink piggy and chicky cupcakes I made for Sylvia’s nursery fireworks cake sale tomorrow. Yes I’m showing them off because they took hours and I am proud of them! Handily I managed to use up some of the icing from S’s birthday cake. And marshmallows that have been lurking in cupboard for … [...]

I just worked out how to get my blog posts automatically feeding my facebook account … easy with this plugin for wp.