Category Archives: Geek / Tech

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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Throttle bandwidth in OS X

Below is how to throttle your network bandwidth on OS X

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Stupid Flash MysteryMeat

I work in the web industry for a reason. Because I can’t stand stupid websites which confuse the crap out of crapheap. Especially when they’re Flash websites which load and load and load without any sort of cancel function. “Sound … Continue reading

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SSH Tunnel to watch Hulu etc

If you are living outside of the US and want to watch those TV shows offered to the Americans, you can. There are a couple of ways to do this, using a proxy via SSH is a great way to … Continue reading

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Adobe Audition for OS X

Finally, after months and months of waiting the beta for Audition is finally out. Originally created by Syntrillium, Cool Edit Pro was bought by Adobe and turned into “Audition”. A powerful audio editing tool for PC has now landed for … Continue reading

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ATI 5770 for the MacPro

Around August this year, my Mac had started doing silly things. At first I thought it was software, and didn’t really want to reinstall everything, so left it – hoping it would go away (just like like a unsightly rash).

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Be friends with yourself

Update: So a Mark Chambers’ didn’t find this very funny so I’ve been temporarily banned from Facebook on the premise that I am a spammer. I guess it could be considered spam, but I’m not doing it for solicitation or … Continue reading

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