www.Visual6502.org
This is absolutely incredible. Check out this JavaScript simulation of an old-school MOS 6502 processor - the heart of the Commodore 64, among other computer...
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Technical notes and observations from years of supporting creative businesses on Mac.
iTunes Store Terms and Conditions
An interesting point to note with the recent opening of the Mac App Store is the terms and conditions for the iTunes Store (which powers the Mac App Store)....
Read post →The Mac App Store is live
If you're running Snow Leopard and check your Software Update, you'll notice an update for Mac OS X 10.6.6 Among other things, this update brings the Mac App...
Read post →F.lux: software to make your life better
That's a pretty sweeping claim, I don't know that I'd go that far, but this is an interesting piece of software nevertheless... F.lux: software to make your...
Read post →GUI Editor for Access Control Lists (ACLs) on Mac OS X
My good mate Reino pointed me to a great little GUI ACL editor for Mac OS X. More useful on non Server versions of OS X that lack any meaningful way to edit...
Read post →The PS3 root keys have been discovered
erk: C0 CE FE 84 C2 27 F7 5B D0 7A 7E B8 46 50 9F 93 B2 38 E7 70 DA CB 9F F4 A3 88 F8 12 48 2B E2 1B riv: 47 EE 74 54 E4 77 4C C9 B8 96 0C 7B 59 F4 C1 4D pub...
Read post →Import your images from Aperture into Lightroom
Following on from the first part in this write-up , here's what I did to get my images from Aperture into Lightroom . This is a fairly manual process, there'...
Read post →Migrating from Aperture to Lightroom
Aperture really isn't getting shown much love by Apple. It lags behind even iPhoto in some regards and with large image libraries, even on decent hardware, i...
Read post →Happy Christmas
Happy Christmas to everyone. Thank you for your support this year. Here's looking forward to 2011.
Read post →Remote root (?) exploit in Retrospect 8 for Mac OS X
So, you have to cut Retrospect a little slack, it's been passed around like a hot potato recently and has just found a home at Roxio now that EMC have washed...
Read post →Crazy ridiculous safety saw can detect fingers and shut off @Makezine.com blog
This is some incredible engineering - stopping a circular saw blade spinning at 5k RPM quick enough that if you put your finger on the spinning blade, all yo...
Read post →Automatica v2
The redesign for this website is almost complete. The pages look similar to the old version however the entire site (rather than just the blog section) is no...
Read post →Ever seen a pwned home router?
I had to go and sort out a client the other day as their router (a Bigpond branded Netcomm unit for a home NextG connection) had, somehow, been compromised a...
Read post →Fix EFI Fiery E10 Driver on Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard
I've had all sorts of issues installing the Fiery E10 driver (installed in a KM Copier) to work under 10.6 - after installing it, the Printer preference pane...
Read post →Apple kills the Xserve?!?
Whisky Tango Foxtrot. Apple has announced that they are discontinuing the Xserve hardware platform . I know that they're selling a lot more Mac mini Servers...
Read post →Blinking Light on Brand-new Xserve
I've set up a few brand-new Xserves lately and two of them wouldn't stop blinking their System Identifier light. The System Identifier light would blink rapi...
Read post →Cancel your White and Yellow Pages deliveries
If you can read this, you have a computer and access to the Internet. You therefore have probably not opened a Yellow or White Pages directory in a number of...
Read post →Enable Spotlight ACLs on Share Points for OS X Server
If you create a share point on OS X Server (10.5 or 10.6) and it doesn't have the magic Spotlight ACL, then Spotlight may not be able to index the content. T...
Read post →Make your own Adobe Creative Suite Combo Updaters
Had I the bandwidth, I'd probably post the results here, but I don't so I'm going to tell you how you can easily make your own Creative Suite Combo Updater....
Read post →Fix iTunes 10 vertical window buttons
As if iTunes doesn't go off the rails enough with the rest of it's window controls, it now makes the Close/Maximise/Minimise buttons (AKA the traffic light b...
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