Category Archives: Work

Free icecream

Posted on June 4, 2010 by marksy

My work has great team values, and today they’re giving us free icecream since it’s such a lovely day (27˚c).

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Out of Office Autoreply

Posted on April 4, 2010 by marksy

I think OoO messages are ridiculous and I blame Microsoft. It’s so easy to setup an Autoreply for holidays and when you are out of the office.

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Stop Google from indexing parts of your page

Posted on March 20, 2010 by marksy

You can use the following tags to stop Google indexing parts of your webpage. <!–googleoff: all–> hide this text from Google<!–googleon: all–> You can also use; <!–googleoff: snippet–> for text <!–googleoff: anchor–> for links via geekzilla

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Windows XP on VMware Fusion Network problems

Posted on March 3, 2010 by marksy

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 →

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Cufon font fix for Mac

Posted on February 3, 2010 by marksy

Mac fonts have to be converted first via command line. Use the following in a new terminal window: cat “MyFontReg/..namedfork/rsrc” > “MyFontReg.dfont”

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Fix PDF in Safari

Posted on February 1, 2010 by marksy

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 →

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Growl Mail (for OS X.6)

Posted on January 19, 2010 by marksy

Growl has finally updated the notification for Apple Mail on Snow Leopard (OS X 10.6) http://growl.info/growlmail/

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Fix your Bluetooth in your MacPro

Posted on January 13, 2010 by marksy

Apparently Apple have been hooking up the antenna incorrectly to some MacPro computers. Mine, a 2x 2.8ghz quad core Xeon (from early 2008) had built-in Bluetooth but not Wifi. I’ve just installed a 802.11n card and noticed that the antenna … Continue reading →

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Nokia E71, finally.

Posted on December 1, 2009 by marksy

To cut the story down to bare facts – i first ordered the Nokia E71 at the start of November from Amazon Market Place. A month later, no contact from the seller and i’ve been ripped off. Well, the dude … Continue reading →

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Show Hidden Apps in OS X

Posted on November 25, 2009 by marksy

I thought I posted this ages ago – maybe i didn’t… Here’s how to show ‘hidden’ applications in the OS X Dock: defaults write com.apple.Dock showhidden -bool YES

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