Our thinking
Technical notes and observations from years of supporting creative businesses on Mac.
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Read post →I've been tuning Photoshop performance on some decently specced Mac Pro workstations. They're older machines than the current model and by default don't boot...
Read post →I've just starred a new item in Google Reader Let's face it, cleaning your desktop can be a right chore. Clean makes it easy by automating the process for th...
Read post →Enter the specs, hit generate and you've got a PDF ready to print out. Free Generator of Barcode Tape Labels for Ultrium LTO Backup Libraries .
Read post →I've just starred a new item in Google Reader A customer asked me today for Photoshop performance-tuning guidance, so I took a minute to track down the lates...
Read post →Mac OS X Server v10.6: Hosting Software Updates for OS X Lion or Lion Server .
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Read post →I've just starred a new item in Google Reader An anonymous reader writes "The Wikimedia Foundation has released their Puppet configuration in a public git re...
Read post →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...
Read post →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 up...
Read post →I've just starred a new item in Google Reader Not sure how, but I failed to announce the recent release of JAMF's newly updated tech paper “Simpl...
Read post →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 us...
Read post →I've just starred a new item in Google Reader Peter Bright wrote a good piece earlier this week at Ars Technica , documenting his attempt to buy a MacBook Ai...
Read post →I've just starred a new item in Google Reader Wacom's Inkling is a pen that draws both on paper and on-screen, tracking the artist's linework with 1024 level...
Read post →This new-to-me website – officially known as “ifttt” (how do you pronounce that?) – is brilliant. I signed up yesterday (it looks like it’s currently in publ...
Read post →Two thumbs up. These tiny desktop speakers punch well above their weight. They are amazingly well built for the price, have a more than powerful enough stere...
Read post →I've just starred a new item in Google Reader Microsoft has created some customized Windows VHDs with the purpose of allowing web designers to test websites...
Read post →I've just starred a new item in Google Reader Updated tools are here , or if you've cloned the Git repo, do a `git pull` to get the changes. When the &...
Read post →I've often used telnet to connect to random ports to make sure a service is working (eg: telnet somehost.example.com smtp to see if it's accepting connection...
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