When I recently tried to get NTFS working on my 10.6.3 server I came across this post about activating native NFS support in Snow Leopard. Sufficed to say, being a bear of little brain, I did not get it working. It did, however, lead me to a curiosity. The article instructs us to edit the [...]
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Google Chrome for Mac Ofically Launched Today
9/12/09 – 08:47
The Google Chrome team has officially launched Google Chrome for Mac today. With a nice little Easter egg for all of us who already had chrome but were waiting with bated breath to be able to officially down load and use it.
iMug Presents, Well Me, on Snow Leopard Services
28/10/09 – 22:50
Last night the good people from iMug had me over to talk about Snow Leopard and in particular the improved services menu. There a good mob the guys and gals of iMug mostly older professionals who use Macs as part of their every day work / life. Basically I demonstrated for them the improvements (under [...]
Play it safe when upgrading your OS to Snow Leopard
22/9/09 – 09:10
When I was young and beautiful and was heading off overseas for my European tour my Father and Stepmother both individually gave me sage advise that I’ve always felt may have been related in some way. My Father said “Always wear a Prophylactic.” He was a pharmacists and my Stepmother said “Always drill a pilot [...]
Top 15 Terminal Commands for Hidden Mac OS X Settings
4/6/09 – 00:10
Very useful list of command line tool for the Mac to get you out of or into trouble. Top 15 Terminal Commands for Hidden Mac OS X Settings via Top 15 Terminal Commands for Hidden Mac OS X Settings | Terminal, Dock/Exposé/Dashboard, iTunes + iPod, Finder, Safari | Mac OS X Tips.
Install subversion on OS X Leopard as a revision control server for a Website
29/5/09 – 04:29
When we start to get a reasonable size team together working on a large web project we can run into problems like; one team member has the latest copy of the production code on their computer and they’ve gone on leave for a week or they, with the best of intentions, clean up the test [...]
Installing FirePHP on OS X – Leopard from PEAR
20/5/09 – 00:39
Quick tip for installing FirePHP from PEAR if you installed PEAR in ‘/usr/local’ as per the instructions in my previous post. Make sure you install as superuser: $ sudo pear channel-discover pear.firephp.org $ sudo pear install firephp/FirePHPCore
Installing PEAR on OS X – Leopard
20/5/09 – 00:21
A quick set of instructions for installing PEAR on OS X 10.5 (Leopard): PHP’s PEAR repository does not come with Leopard but it only takes about five minutes, if that, to install.
Don't get caught short-cut
21/3/09 – 12:14
There are some OS X keyboard shortcuts you don’t want to forget when, for example, your bluetooth mouse runs out of juice and you can’t find your tether-mouse, like, control-F2 (highlight the menu bar). Others you need to know when the computer is off or staring up; e.g. hold down the C key to boot [...]
Favorite OS X Utilities: SoundSource
29/12/08 – 10:46
I’ve been meaning to post about my favorite software and utilities, particularly the really good free (open source) ones for some time. Well here’s a start. I have to blog this one because; one, its good and two, I keep looking for it on the web and forgetting its name “SoundSource”, SoowndSorrse … what’s so [...]