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Category Archives: mac
Installing VMware Tools on Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy)
If you’re a VMware user and want to play around with the latest version of Ubuntu in a VM (like me), you’ll need to get the vmware-tools installed. Unfortunately, things are not quite as straight forward as the previous release … Continue reading
Spanning Sync 2.0 to Add Contact Sync
I’m already a lover of Spanning Sync, version 2 promises to have contact syncing between all your Google apps with the Mac address book. This could be very very good. Check the link for a video of it in action. … Continue reading
10 Ways to Instantly DEcrease Productivity on Your Mac
A great guide to help you in not getting things done. Sure, we’ve all read those lists of tweaks you can make to your system to increase productivity, but what if you’re not in such an all-fired hurry to get … Continue reading
Unix Toolbox
Found this via a post on Digg. A very useful read if you want to get some more advanced things done in Unix. This document is a collection of Unix/Linux/BSD commands and tasks which are useful for IT work or … Continue reading
Developing Rails Applications on Mac OS X Leopard
First in a series of three articles from Apple on Ruby on Rails development on Mac OS X Leopard. Definitely worth a bookmark. Ruby on Rails is a popular and powerful open source web framework for rapidly creating high-quality web … Continue reading
Hiding Keynote Presentations
I don’t give many presentations these days, but this is a great tip: If you give many presentations on the Mac, chances are you’re using Apple’s Keynote presentation software. One cool feature in Keynote is the ability to demo something … Continue reading
Is the MacBook Air THAT Bad?!?
Finally, a common sense response to all of these MacBook Air bashing articles. I admit - I don’t want one, i’d rather have a ‘regular’ MacBook or a MacBook Pro, but there are people out there that would want something … Continue reading
SSH Shared-Key Setup - SSH Logins Without Passwords
SSH is a great tool for remotely accessing another machine, but entering your password every time you log into a remote box can be a pain if you would like to set-up some background scripts to connect to a server … Continue reading
A Better Ls for Mac OS X
I’m a bit of a command-line freak and like to spend a fair amount of time with the terminal open… As such I like to spend a small amount of time getting the terminal set-up nicely. Other than changing the … Continue reading
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Getting Your DVDs Onto Your Mac/iPod/iPhone
I’d looked at Handbrake a while back but the GUI was far too confusing for a simpleton like me. It seems like it’s been cleaned up quite a bit now and looks rather useful! (The little video giving an overview … Continue reading