Category Archives: Geek / Tech

Mount OS X share on Windows 7

Windows in general is a pain in the bum. I’ve had to install it on my media PC for the TV as Netflix only support PC/Mac – not Linux. However when configuring Windows I found I couldn’t access my Mac. … Continue reading

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OS X notifications

On the cusp of the iOS release, due today or any day now, iOS notifications is a great visual notification system on iPhone/iPad. However, OS X doesn’t have a native notification system. Growl is the closest thing we have as … Continue reading

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Mac Bluray Ripper Pro (for Mac)

I paid about £20 for this great software about a year ago to backup my Bluray discs to HDD so I can watch them anytime without having to take them out of their jackets and fast forward the ads.

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Watch US TV via Firefox

Penx just showed me a neat plugin hack for FireFox to enable watching content from the United States. Download Modify Headers from the Firefox Addons repository, install, restart browser.

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HP touchpad sells out

There was some controversy as to what happened with HPs webos, their latest device challenging the iPad, HP touchpad has died a death before even shipping. Today, someone from Dixons announced the touchpad will sell for £89, usually selling for … Continue reading

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Digital Color Meter OS X.7 Lion [sucks]

For what it’s worth, Apple have stripped back DCM utility in their new OS. WTF!? I used that all the time, now I can’t copy colour, hold colour or pick in HEX?! A chap called Matt Patenaude has made a … Continue reading

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Copyright protection ‘Cinavia’ on PS3

Sounds like Sony has implemented their Copyright control on movies encoded with Cinavia technology. Most of the movies I watch are downloaded from the web. Most of them are available to me on Lovefilm, a monthly service I pay for … Continue reading

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Rent Photoshop from Adobe for $49/month

Adobe are now offering a solution for students/freelancers which sounds viable. Instead of shelling out the $US900 or whatever to keep, you can just borrow the software for a while. This scheme seems to be targeting the inbetweener developer/designer who … Continue reading

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Speed up your page serving with ‘mod_pagespeed’

Google announced (a while ago) a module to Apache 2.2, ‘mod_pagespeed’ will automatically optimise webpages, serving up content faster to your consumers. mod_pagespeed is an open-source Apache module that automatically optimizes web pages and resources on them. It does this … Continue reading

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Inconsideration

This is one of my pet peeves.

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