Hey. Thanks for checking out the site. You'll find posts on geek stuff, Howto's, reviews of stuff I get, as well as musings on things that happen in my life, which tend to be music related, or job related, so expect some stories of horror from the IT field!.
Read More
It seems like Part 3 is System Preferences time. Read on….
Growl - Its less of an application and more of a system preference and a hook. Growl allows other applications to display onscreen notices. For example, our previously mentioned app Transmission can show notices when it adds new torrents and when they are done downloading. [...]
So I have been struggling recently to get online via my powerbook using my Nokia 6280 handset from Three in the UK. I had signed up for an internet package, and was hoping I could do the same I did with Orange previously, and use my phone as a bluetooth modem.
Alas, it did not work. [...]
So the other weekend, I was quietly contemplating what running Vista would be like. My girlfriend has just got a Macbook and doesn’t want to let me loose on it. Fair enough, so I came across Virtual PC and considered it. Only problem at first was drive space.
Somehow I had managed to get down to [...]
Don’t worry. This isn’t a tribute to our favorite(!) Durst-assisted band, Stain’d (why the apostrophe? is an e that difficult to find in the keyboard?) Its just an explaination of where I’ve been. Here’s a run down.
1. Been moving house. This means packing boxes, buying furniture, moving boxes, putting together ikea flat packs, contacting many [...]
Burn - Burn is an open source CD and DVD burning program that some have compared and said betters commercial software like Roxio’s Toast. Now I have Toast and its pretty good, but its very bulky. Burn, is a nice simple little app that will burn audio CD’s, data CD’s (for Mac, PC, Joilet, UDF, [...]
[digg=http://digg.com/apple/64_bit_WEP_in_OS_X_Simple_as_0x]
I came across a need to do this last night as I was trying to get my girlfriends new Macbook onto the wireless router I have here. So I logged on to the router and found Key 1 and told her to type it in. Much surprise did i get when it denied access. So [...]
Quicksilver - Its basically described as a way of creating functional sentences to carry out actions on your mac. You hit the key combo to bring up the window and start typing. At the basic level, its a great quick application loader, much quicker than spotlight. At its most complex, you can quickly select files [...]
[digg=http://digg.com/apple/Great_Mac_Apps_Another_list]Thought I would do a list of various apps that I really like and later I will come back and talk a bit more about them.
1.Quicksilver - GTD must have, and all round great app, even as a Spotlight replacement
2. Camino - Open source Web browser, Cocoa app so bit better than Firefox. I’m using it [...]
So I started my current job in July 2006, and like all companies, was given email and internet access. All I had to do was read the usual policies about improper use, business related sites only, nothing rude, etc etc. Then about 7 weeks after I started, I was called into my bosses office. He [...]
