Google has announced another new tool. It’s called Chrome and is a browser. Why on earth do we need another browser? If they’d do one for Android (their mobile platform) I’d understand – but for OSes?! They use Apple‘s WebKit as a base rendering engine and put some -admittedly good- fluff around it. But what [...]
Every now and again I have the need to test the speed of hard drives. Usually to check that the connections I made (USB) are correct. Today I found a very good tool to do this with. It is called AJA Kona System Test and can be downloaded here. It even shows a graph of [...]
Over the past two years I have had several contacts with virtualisation both at work and at home. At work I mostly used VMware Server (free) and VMware ESX (very expensive!) to manage test environments and offer services to employees. Privately I used Parallels to get some Windows stuff going on my Mac. Since installing [...]
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One little tip I discovered on MacWorld today is how to supercharge your Preview app in Mac OS X 10.5. Here’s the article. What it doesn’t say is, that you also have buttons for rotation and cropping. I always used to lament about preview being such a stupid app, I never thought that Apple would [...]
In the 70ies every engineers dream was a calculator made by HP. The HP41 was on of the number of classics that saw the light of day then. Thankfully an ingenious Kiwi has brought it back to life on the Mac. Thank you, thank you, thank you! It’s really fun to use and you can [...]
Today I had to work from home. Since my debacle with Vista (see below) I now run Ubuntu 8.04 on my work PC. VNC is enabled and I can now login to the work network via VNC with my Mac and work easily from home. And since Mac OS X is such a nice Unixy [...]
So on a scale 1 to 10 how happy are we that the iPhone’s coming to NZ? Well… most people I speak to it is at abot 100+ on that scale. But it does pose a difficult decision. Buy a white one or a black one?! I think that is what makes the Apple iPhone [...]
Most of us IT geeks have the dire need to have more than one MAC/PC on our desktop. Appart from the nice line of LCD’s starting to create a natural barrier to all around you, your desk gets cluttered by mice and keyboards. Hand-up who hasn’t had the problem of typing on a KBD while [...]
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When operating a Mac on a LCD (and probably Plasma Display) via a DVI-to-HDMI cable don’t forget to activate the Overscan. Without that you will probably only see about 32″ of screen on a 40″ TV.
I spent the last two weeks experimenting with Mac OS X on a standard PC. The challenge was a mighty one I must admit. There’s several Hackintosh sites out there with a multitude of descriptions of what to do. The art is to pick the ones that are suitable for you. I started out with [...]