After a bit of research I decided to give PhotoSmith Version 2.2 a go, it is the most expensive …
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"Reverting rtorrent version on Snow Leopard"
After running a
brew upgradertorrent was plagued with segmentation faults. Which look something like :read moreCaught Segmentation fault, dumping stack …"OS X Screen Capture"
To capture the screen on OS X :
⇧⌘4 : Selected area to capture.
⇧⌘4-space : Capture a window.These are defined in …
read more"Speed up Mission Control Animation"
If entering Mission Control (ctrl-up) is taking to long you can speed up the animation entering the following in the …
read more"Syncing Google Contacts in Mountain Lion"
A the time of writing Google exchange syncing only works on mobile devices, which is slightly annoying but mail, contacts …
read more"Syncing Safari via dropbox for pre iCloud OS X"
THIS NO LONGER WORKS, IF IT EVER DID :(
When you add a link to safari, it replaces the link to …
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"Mountain Lion Setup, Part 5 /etc/hosts"
For ssh and ping to local machines with out the .local extension I added them to my /ets/hosts file …
read more"OS X Get Info Summary for multiple items"
If you use the ⌘I shortcut in finder with a file selected you get a 'Get Info' window. If you …
read more"Mountain Lion finding the Library folder"
From OS X Lion the Users Library folder has been hidden. To find it make Finder the active application, that …
read more"Mountain Lion, Twitter and Flickr integration"
The settings for Twitter and Flickr feel a little hidden at first. To set them up go to
read moreSystem Preferences …"Mountain Lion Setup, Part 4 Apps"
"Mountain Lion Setup, Part 3 : Little Snitch & Dotfiles"
Little Snitch
There is currently a preview (Beta) of [Little Snitch 3][littelsnitch3]. If you have not come across Little …
read more"Mountain Lion Setup, Part 2 Homebrew & RVM"
Following on from Macbook Pro Setup, Now it is time to install some of the command line tools.
I have …
read more"Xcode 4 Install, Disk Usage"
Some info on what has changed in Xcode 4.3. Latest is 4.4 but a lot changed in 4 …
read more"Mountain Lion Setup, Part 1 : Upgrade Lion"
MacBook Pro with Lion arrives, before installing any other software apply for the Up-to-Date Programme for free a mountain lion …
read more"Mountain Lion default $PATH"
/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/binTo Reset it back to this value run (from /Applications/Utilities …
read more"Lion default $PATH"
/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11/binTo Reset it back to this value run …
read more"Mac Mountain Lion Compatibility"
One of the limitations of mountain lion is that they are only going to support 64 bit Kernel extensions, the …
read more"Pragmatic Programmers, Dropbox integration"
After deciding to try out epub on the kindle, as I noticed people are listing epub as an apple format …
read more"Gelaskins iPad cases"
Got the steam punk Gelaskins case yesterday, they can be a fiddle to fit but incredibly thin and adds grippines …
read more"iTunes Match and Genius, Why cant we have both?"
In iOS 5 If you have iTunes Match enabled ie to download your songs from the iCloud while on the …
read more"iPad 3 Tethering"
Three now have tethering available for the iPad 3, which can be read in the comments by moderators on the …
read more"unix mail command, delete all messages"
Cron jobs can have there results returned as mail via the unix mail system. If left unchecked for a while …
read more"Finding Tracks not in iTunes"
"Make Ubuntu Samba share show up on OS X 10.6 finder"
Install Avahi, it like bonjour auto discovery but for linux, then tell it about your servers samba service.
read more$ sudo apt-get …"New Macbook Air (2011) & OS X Lion"
The new (July 2011) Mac Book Air is now out, shipping with Lion.
The combination of these two fixes some …
read more"Setting up PostgreSQL on OS X"
An old guide is written on the Apple Developer Forum however if you are using Homebrew it is much simpler …
read more"Fixing Ncursers on OS X 10.6.3+"
Currently OS X 10.6.3 - 10.6.5 the ncursers library is broken. A hacky fix is to copy …
read more"Mac OS X Harddrive Spin Down Time"
The Preferences menu in OS x give you the option to turn off Hard Disks whenever possible to save power …
read more"Mac OS X Default Path"
As this seemed to be a useful post on my old blog I am reposting it. Just in case the …
read more"Turn a .jar file into a mac .app"
Following this article lets you turn a executable java .jar into a mac appliction (.app). The Tools are only available …
read more"Installing git on a clean build of OS X"
"Homebrew package management for Mac OS X"
Homebrew is a new package management system for Mac OS X. A good review/tutorial on EngineYard.
Update 20-August-2010
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Then …"Save space on your Mac by going Monolingual"
"MacBook Power Consumption"
MacBook3,1 (2007) Intel Core 2 Duo 2.2GHz Hard drive and memory upgraded to 320GB and 4GB
Graphics GMA …
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