Oliver Erlewein on December 20th, 2008

The good samaritans over at MacHeist are giving away some software for our beloved Macs! So get over there and get your free stuff! On Christmas day there’s even more to get. Have I mentioned I love the guys over at MacHeist?

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Oliver Erlewein on November 1st, 2008

A few months ago Equinux was nice enough to send me a TubeStick to trial in New Zealand. I was hoping to be able to watch FreeView (DVB-T) on my Mac. The bad news is that it currently doesn’t work at all. It doesn’t find one channel. I suppose it is because NZ doesn’t use [...]

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Oliver Erlewein on September 5th, 2008

My favourite virtualization app has gone into another round. Get the new version 2.0 here. I’ve been on version 1.6 (Ubuntu 8.04.1) for a while now and must say it is a good and stable product for desktop virtualization. It works on all platforms (Mac, Linux, Solaris, Windows,…).

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Oliver Erlewein on August 24th, 2008

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 [...]

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Oliver Erlewein on July 16th, 2008

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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Oliver Erlewein on July 16th, 2008

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 [...]

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Oliver Erlewein on July 13th, 2008

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 [...]

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Oliver Erlewein on July 6th, 2008

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 [...]

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Oliver Erlewein on May 31st, 2008

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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Oliver Erlewein on December 21st, 2007

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.

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