I created my Twitter account sometime in 2009 but just couldn’t figure out what to do with it and what it was for. So I dropped the whole subject and fired up FaceBook. 2010 and WeekendTesting is gaining traction. In the process of getting involved I was confronted multiple times on how I could NOT [...]
A while ago I blogged about my absolute love for my Sennheiser PX 100′s. They are truly astoundingly good headphones for use with iPods and other mobile sound sources. The quality getting up there with big headphones that cost a whole lot more. So….. I lost them. Looked for a week and then gave up. [...]
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 [...]
The Computerworld writes in their news-ticker today that “Ultrafast broadband coming to NZ“. Well kudos on Telstra for bringing us 100Mbit download rates next year. Oh wait….. You’ll have either 5,10 or 20GB cap. So that only means that you’ll reach your download limit on the second of each month and not the fourth! What [...]
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In one of the Mac bundles we bought a while ago one of the included programs was Xslimmer. It is a fantastic utility, that takes Universal Binaries (the Mac OS X application files) and strips out the PowerPC components and languages you won’t need. This saves quite a few gigabytes on your drive even if [...]
Google has finally started an experimental release of its offline GMail client. It uses Google Gears as you might expect. The current downside is that it is only available for US and UK customers. Since I like being a Beta tester (it hones my work skills as a tester) I’m a little disappointed. But it’s [...]
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? [...]
Just a gentle reminder that a new version of the truly great Sun virtualisation software’s out. It’s VirtualBox 2.1.0. The ChangeLog is here and there’s lots of important new stuff. 64-bit support on 32-bit guest OSes (not so hot for me) 3D support (getting warmer) Better Windows (who cares?!) and Linux networking support doing away [...]