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Mac OSX 10.6 ignore trackpad when mouse present
When you plug in a mouse to a Macbook/Pro/Air sometimes you want to ignore the trackpad because, well, you have an external mouse and don’t want to flick around with the trackpad. Apple have changed this from being in either … Continue reading
SanDisk Cruzer u3 removal software
Stupid SanDisk make it so difficult to remove their on board software which comes preloaded on the Cruzer range. I bought a 16gb Cruzer and have had big issues trying to format the disk in NTFS/FAT32. Each time Windows would … Continue reading
Safari 5 Adblock extension
My previous post about Lovefilms ongoing efforts to advertise as much as they can at the expensive of their customers has just led me to an extension for Safari. For you Firefox users, been running extensions for a while now, … Continue reading
Lovefilm shouldn’t be advertising
I pay a service to Lovefilm. £13 per month for 2 rental movies at a time. I can usually get about a maximum of 10 DVDs per month. This is good value. However, their website is increasing with the amount … Continue reading
Blu-Ray discs readable by OS X
I’ve just received my first Blu-Ray disc (Ferris Bueller’s Day Off) and straight away, OS X reads it. I thought OS X couldn’t read Blu-Ray? Was it that OS X can’t play back the files? If so, I don’t mind. … Continue reading
Flash PC graphics cards to use on OS X
The only graphics card upgrade I can buy with a warranty is through the Apple store, an ATI Radeon HD 4870 on sale for a pricey £286.00
Windows XP on VMware Fusion Network problems
Every once in a while i get this message in Windows XP VM “Network connection has limited or no connection”. Some people suggest to turn your VM settings to NAT. However, this was already set to NAT. To fix the … Continue reading
Cufon font fix for Mac
Mac fonts have to be converted first via command line. Use the following in a new terminal window: cat “MyFontReg/..namedfork/rsrc” > “MyFontReg.dfont”
Turn your iPhone into a trackpad for your MacPro/iMac
Here’s a neat and free trick. Logictech have created an app for iPhone that allows you to control your pointer all over the screen, just like a trackpad. It allows basic multi-gester too, such as scroll – no three finger … Continue reading
Fix PDF in Safari
If you’ve just installed Adobe CS3/4 you may be wondering why your Safari on OS X can’t display PDFs anymore. It’s because Adobe mucked up the plugin which tells Safari to choose an application to view the PDF files. To … Continue reading