Tag Archives: Work
Prowl your network using Wi-Fi Diagnostics
Apple have some great tools which are often unheard of. I just found this wondrous tool, Wi-Fi Diagnostics. Found in /System/Library/CoreServices/ it can help find out what dodgy business is going on, on your network. It can do diagnostic report, … Continue reading
Make your own url shortener
They’re used fairly a lot these days, and there are many of them. But someday they might not be active and your links will be gone and useless. Link shortening. Why not make one yourself? They’re pretty straight forward if … Continue reading
Terminal dd direct copy
run ‘diskutil’ to get a list of devices (in /dev) insert disc run ‘diskutil’ to see what device node your disc is run ‘diskutil unmountDisk /dev/diskN (replace N with the disk number from the last command; in the previous example, … Continue reading
Raspberry Pi
Last night I bought a piece of hardware that will be a piece of history. The Raspberry Pi computer is a tiny (size of a packet of playing cards) logic board, system-on-chip arm CPU, 256mb ram, ethernet, USB, SD Card, … Continue reading
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
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.
HP touchpad sells out
There was some controversy as to what happened with HPs webos, their latest device challenging the iPad, HP touchpad has died a death before even shipping. Today, someone from Dixons announced the touchpad will sell for £89, usually selling for … Continue reading
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