Category Archives: Software
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
Amazon to buy webOS?
Remember that fantastic day when HP announced it was scrapping their newly developed tablet, and selling them off for a mere £80? Well when that happened I thought, Amazon should buy the OS and run it as an iOS & … 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.
Reverse scroll (make scrolling on SL like Lion)
Have you upgraded to OS X Lion at home, but your work still is keeping you on OS X Snow Leopard? And are you getting confused about which way your scroller works?? Ever since the scroller was invented in 1990something, … 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
Xcode now free
Xcode development platform for Mac and iOS was originally free, which came with the OS X install disc. Then, a couple of months back when the AppStore was released by Apple, they started charging for it, which struck a few … Continue reading
Android in-app Adverts
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
Advertising in OS’s
Would you or better yet, could you use an operating system that has adverts? Google are working on their web-based OS which would probably have the usual targeted adverts based on either surrounding content or user profile data.
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