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
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
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.
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.
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
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
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
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
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
Inconsideration
This is one of my pet peeves.