Category Archives: Work
Mount OS X share on Windows 7
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
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
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.
Speed up your page serving with ‘mod_pagespeed’
Google announced (a while ago) a module to Apache 2.2, ‘mod_pagespeed’ will automatically optimise webpages, serving up content faster to your consumers. mod_pagespeed is an open-source Apache module that automatically optimizes web pages and resources on them. It does this … Continue reading
Throttle bandwidth in OS X
Below is how to throttle your network bandwidth on OS X
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
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
Google having trouble with Safari 5 (malwaring?)
Recently I’ve been seeing some weird things happening with Safari & Google. Lately, gMaps is very slow and takes up a lot of process. Streetview is horrible in Safari 5. gAnalytics doesn’t display content correctly. I’ve been using Chrome for … Continue reading
Reload button for Safari
With extensions for Safari 5 finally being enabled, developers are starting to produce some good stuff. One thing (which Apple has never had) is a separate reload button. I dislike buttons which have two functions such as reload/stop. If you … Continue reading