One thing I loved about the “old” Quicktime was that you could watch a video at 1.3x speed or similar. That allowed you to get through material quicker. With Quicktime X the feature seems gone. Now macosxhints.com comes to the rescue. “A simple hint for the new Quicktime X player. Clicking the fast forward button [...]
Here in NZ we’re a little off the beaten track. It has it’s advantages and disadvantages. One of the down sides is that Apple gear is usually quite a bit pricier. Over the last 2 years the prices have continually been creeping up. At first this was due to the exchange rate turning against us [...]
One of the biggest issues in modern IT is storing all that data. I know that I have drives coming out of my ears at home and it still is not enough. I have over 3TB of current storage divided into active data and incremental backup storage. I still do not feel as safe as [...]
Today i installed the Mac OS X 10.5.8 Combo Update on my Atom 330 Mac (see below). After a reboot it was back to 1024×768 only. So I guessed the driver Kexts were overwritten by the upgrade. Just re-install the Kexts and all should be working a-OK. Hyperthreading is still not supported. Am now pretty [...]
Sorry for the delay. Got lots of work on at the moment. now for the putting it all together part…. First we need to put all the hardware together. Well…actually we first need to take it apart. The case that is. And that then looks something like this: The case has lots of space and [...]
Last week I started with a new project. Our 1.42Ghz G4 Mac Mini was getting somewhat old in the tooth. So I thought it’s about time to replace the good old thing. Problem is that the exchange rate at the moment is making it impossible to buy a new Mac Mini. I’d have to shell [...]
Installed iLife ’09 a couple of days ago. I’ve so far just tried iPhoto because that’s what I was curious about. The new Faces and GPS features are great! It makes life (no pun intended) much easier when sorting pictures. Spent quite some time getting all the people recognised in my photos. It’s not foolproof [...]
I just have to blog about this. VirtualBox has just become awesome. The update 2.1 has added support for VMware images and it SO works! I didn’t think this would be so easy. Just create a new VM and mount the VMware vmdk. Done! For me that was always the critical issue with VirtualBox. At [...]
I’ve done my fair share of amateur photo editing. Most of it done under PhotoShop at the time. After I switched to Macs a couple of years ago I didn’t have PhotoShop anymore. Mostly because it is just too *@%#^&%@ expensive. Adobe PhotoShop Elements…well…just not right if you’re coming from PS. I tried GIMP and [...]
I wish all readers here a H A P P Y N E W Y E A R ! May 2009 be a if not prosperous then certainly a joyful year. We will see major issues coming up in the year so it certainly won’t be boring. Will the financial crisis be over in 2009? [...]