Posts Tagged ‘macintosh’
A good long time ago, there was a screencast of what you could do with [FastScripts][1]. Unfortunately, the screencast didn’t do it justice. The problem with doing a screen cast for an application/script launcher is that it is highly dependent on the applications and scripts that you have available. And, for the most part, this […]
After looking at the concepts in [Fruux](http://fruux.net/), I was left with one question: > How does this different in principle from [Plaxo][]? At the current time, the only answer I have is that [Plaxo][] exists. [Plaxo]: http://plaxo.com/
I have been working on a PDF newsletter for a while and wanted to get a preview of what the color document would look like printed to a black and white printer…and fit is surprisingly hard. Though it is not mentioned on the download page as a reason, [CUPS-PDF][1] will allow you to print a […]
Since both me and my wife use Quicken, I’ve put the data file out on a network drive so that we both can access it. I’ve had decent luck (though it is dog slow) accessing the file using CIFS (SMB), but cannot access it on the same server using AFP (Apple Filing Protocol, or AppleShare). […]
The first applications I installed were part of iLife ’06. This took several hours. To get all of the themes for iDVD that have been released over the years, you have to run each of the installers in order–there is no way to go back a install themes once you have a newer version of […]
Every once in a while I like to reinstall OSX to get rid of all the things that I really don’t need and clean up the computing environment. This time I started the process because my computer just wasn’t stable–it would hang and mysteriously shut itself off after a while. After a week of this, […]
With the size of the update earlier this week, it can be hard to tell all of the componets that have been updated. One of the smaller changes is that the [Motola v557][2] is now [supported][1] by iSync 2.2. This should mean that I will finally be able to sync my address book and calendar […]
For those that are interested, [Unsanity][] is having a 50% off sale for the next two days to celebrate their 5th Anniversary. [Unsanity]: http://www.unsanity.com/
If you create a filename in the Finder which has a very long extension, you will not be able to change it using the Finder. (An extension is defined by an number of characters after a period in a file name which does not include spaces.) In this case I am starting with `file.with_a_very_very_long_extension_name_or_at_least_a_period` and […]
The [Keyspan Digital Media Remote](http://www.keyspan.com/products/usb/remote/) ( [macupdate](http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/6558) ) is a nifty piece of hardware which allows you to control applications on your computer through a credit card sized remote. When you install the driver software on OSX, administrator access is required because a kernel extension (`DMRantiClassic.kext`) is installed.