Category Archives: How to

Make your own url shortener

Posted on April 2, 2013 by marksy

They’re used fairly a lot these days, and there are many of them. But someday they might not be active and your links will be gone and useless. Link shortening. Why not make one yourself? They’re pretty straight forward if … Continue reading →

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Terminal dd direct copy

Posted on August 1, 2012 by marksy

run ‘diskutil’ to get a list of devices (in /dev) insert disc run ‘diskutil’ to see what device node your disc is run ‘diskutil unmountDisk /dev/diskN (replace N with the disk number from the last command; in the previous example, … Continue reading →

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Mount OS X share on Windows 7

Posted on January 28, 2012 by marksy

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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Mac Bluray Ripper Pro (for Mac)

Posted on September 13, 2011 by marksy

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

Posted on August 26, 2011 by marksy

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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Android in-app Adverts

Posted on June 26, 2011 by marksy

A game I paid for and played on the iPhone “Cut the Rope” was a fun game of trying to help a monster eat candy. Simple game, but highly addictive. It has just been released on Android, for free – … Continue reading →

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Ikea bed hack

Posted on June 5, 2011 by marksy

I’ve been needing some more storage in my room. As i lay in bed one morning waiting for my alarm to go off, i thought of the ginormous space above me. I thought, i should put some of that space … Continue reading →

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Fizzy Chicken

Posted on November 16, 2010 by marksy

I’ve found a sneaky recipe for cooking chicken (and other meats except seafood) which keeps in the moisture, but allows the meat to cook without becoming dry and tasteless.

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SSH Tunnel to watch Hulu etc

Posted on November 11, 2010 by marksy

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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Simplify iOS4

Posted on August 20, 2010 by marksy

One of the new features of iOS4 is custom wallpaper on the home screens. This idea came from the iPad, which on the iPad looks amazing. This is because there is more screen real estate. On the iPhone however, the … Continue reading →

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