THX Certification for HDTVs
For once, THX certification may be something that I actively look for with my next display panel purchase. I'm not a huge fan of the current trend for glossi...
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Technical notes and observations from years of supporting creative businesses on Mac.
Rudix
Rudix is a package-based, user-friendly way to extend the Unix portion of Mac OS X with additional network utilities, computer languages, development librari...
Read post →The mobile phone market
How many models of mobile phones do Motorola sell? 117. http://www.motorola.com/Consumers/US-EN/Consumer-Product-and-Services/Mobile-Phones/ How many models...
Read post →Guessing Game: Edible Flags
Match the food, and the flag, to the country... Yum. Flavorwire » Guessing Game: Edible Flags .
Read post →Allow network users to manage printers
When rolling out a Mac OS X SOE, sometimes it will be advantageous to allow regular users, with mobile or network accounts, to be able to manage printers on...
Read post →Over half your news is spin – Crikey
Today Crikey launches an investigation six months in the making. Spinning the Media is an investigation in conjunction with the University of Technology (UTS...
Read post →Solid State Drives are the new black...
Solid State Drives (SSD) are one of the biggest performance increases to hit personal computers for quite some time. For many years, a solid rule of thumb wa...
Read post →How to get Juniper Network Connect working with Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard
I've had issues getting Juniper's Network Connect app to work on Snow Leopard. First up, it simply wouldn't install at all, which was a bit of a problem. Tur...
Read post →The Brads – a comic about web design » The Brads – Why DRM Doesn’t Work
Why DRM Doesn’t Work via The Brads – a comic about web design .
Read post →Allowing all users to access files uploaded to OS X via ftp
When creating a shared FTP folder on Mac OS X, the uploaded files are only accessible by the user who uploaded them. This isn't much help if there's a shared...
Read post →10 photo manipulations to mess up your mind with
Been too busy to post anything here lately, getting my BAS done and other stuff that's equally as exciting. Anyway, here's a bit of a change of pace: 10 phot...
Read post →Toy Story 3
Toy Story was Pixar's first full-length film, and the first 100% computer-animated feature film. It was released in 1995. It was reportedly completed on a bu...
Read post →Falling into Maths
The video below is a 10 minute trip, zooming into a Mandlebrot fractal to a zoom level of around 10e214 Regarding the zoom level achieved, if 1px in the fina...
Read post →Flash & Core Animation
Flash 10.1 on Mac OS X is looking like it will suck less than it has in the past. Adobe appear to be making the considerable effort to leverage Core Animatio...
Read post →Aperture 3
Damn you Apple! It is now quite literally one week after I gave up on Aperture ever receiving any more loving and updates and I have begun the long and arduo...
Read post →Interview with Bill Watterson, of 'Calvin and Hobbes' fame.
I vote for "Calvin and Hobbes, Eighth Wonder of the World." via Bill Watterson, creator of beloved 'Calvin and Hobbes' comic strip looks back with no regrets...
Read post →RAID5 + Hotspare on the Promise DS4600 RAID Unit
I've recently had the opportunity to set up a Promise DS4600 connected to a Mac mini Server . Using the supplied admin utility, it's not immediately obvious...
Read post →John Nack on Adobe: Sympathy for the Devil
John Nack, at Adobe, posts a very well written and argued article on why flash isn't the best solution in the world, why open standards are a good thing, why...
Read post →On the PlayStation 3: Here's your silver platter
Some dude, geohot , has put in a LOT of work to get hypervisor level access to the PS3 hardware. He's been working on it for quite some time - Sony have put...
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