Category Archives: Geek / Tech

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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Macbook Pro – change graphics card in realtime

Just found this awesome menu bar tool which lets you quickly swap the graphics card on your Macbook Pro. It lets you swap say from onboard Intel graphics to dedicated nVidia, or vice versa. It should work with most Macbook … Continue reading

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Google maps moves drops Flash

Why is this awesome? Because Google are dropping a locked in piece of software (which is bug ridden, and insecure, and has extremely poor performance on anything but Windows).

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Hakim Experiments (html5/js)

This guy has created an amazing audio tool out of javascript and html5. Something I’m sure you could waste hours and hours on. Would be good to pipe it through some effects processing though. link

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