Category Archives: Software
OS X.7 Lion (beta)
Firstly, I’ve been lucky enough to try out the latest build of OS X Lion developer preview for testing. Installation was simple enough, more so than regular OS X installs. Normally, you insert the disc and either execute the install … Continue reading
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
Simplify iOS4
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
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
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).
Online bittorrent service hides your warez
New service put.io is a commercial service which has allows you to download torrents using their servers, store the files and then later download them to your computer, or stream them to your iPhone, without a trace. Obviously you must … Continue reading
HUD Bezel for Quicksilver
Nice UI for Quicksilver from Ben Cochran. http://code.bencochran.com/bezelhud/
jQuery plugin for TextMate
I’ve found this really handy jQuery plugin for TextMate. It’s originally written by kswedberg on github, but i’ve compiled it and zipped it for ease of use.
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