Our thinking


Reminder: How to tune Photoshop CS5 for peak performance

I've just starred a new item in Google ReaderA customer asked me today for Photoshop performance-tuning guidance, so I took a minute to track down the latest & greatest, most canonical guide from Adobe: it’s “How to tune Photoshop CS5...
Read More

Wikimedia Foundation Releases Their Server Config

I've just starred a new item in Google ReaderAn anonymous reader writes "The Wikimedia Foundation has released their Puppet configuration in a public git repository. They describe this as the first step in a project called Wikimedia Test/Dev Labs, letting...
Read More

Trialling Google Ads

I'm trialling Google Ads on the blog portion of this site. They are now appearing on the main blog page and on the individual posts pages. I'm not getting a huge number of hits, but it's pretty consistent at around...
Read More

VMware Fusion 4 levels up for Lion virtualization

I've just starred a new item in Google Reader Winter turns to spring, night to dawn... and the two 800 lb. gorillas of the Mac virtualization market trade updates once again. A fortnight ago it was Parallels 7 hitting with...
Read More

Updated JAMF Casper Tech Paper & JAMF Conference

I've just starred a new item in Google ReaderNot sure how, but I failed to announce the recent release of JAMF’s newly updated tech paper “Simplifying Adobe CS5 and CS5.5 Administration with the Casper Suite” document. This has been updated...
Read More

? The New Apple Advantage

I've just starred a new item in Google ReaderPeter Bright wrote a good piece earlier this week at Ars Technica, documenting his attempt to buy a MacBook Air-like Windows laptop (he doesn’t want an Air running Windows using Boot Camp...
Read More

Picocom 1.6 binary package for Mac OS X 10.6

I'm finding I need to do more stuff talking to a serial port, and picocom seems to be the best terminal emulator I've found for Mac OS X. I was previously using screen, which is shipped with Mac OS X and...
Read More