Our thinking
Technical notes and observations from years of supporting creative businesses on Mac.
Outlook 2011 for Mac has an annoying habit of getting items stuck in it's outbox and often it's not clear (or even possible) to see where these items are to...
Read post →If you want to get the most out of your flatscreen TV, then it needs to be adjusted from the terrible default settings it probably ships with. Most TVs will...
Read post →If you're looking to use tools to generate colour palettes for any purpose, and like kuler but don't like flash, then head on over and check out Color Scheme...
Read post →YouTube have been rolling out html5 video playback for a few years now, and by this stage all of their newly uploaded videos are in H.264 . This allows them...
Read post →The Finder in OS X often gets confused as to what's supposed to be in the "Open With" context menu, particularly if you mount and unmount other volumes that...
Read post →Well, the title pretty much says it all - head over to Quirky and vote for my fantastic idea ! Quirky is a site where you can submit ideas, they get voted on...
Read post →Over on the Apple Discussions , there's a quick hint to find and download the latest version of Safari. It seems that Apple are no longer offering standalone...
Read post →If you've not used pkgbuild before, it can be a bit daunting to go from the (admittedly rather confusing) GUI-based Package Maker to the command-line tool pk...
Read post →If you've got a WHM/cPanel server, and you want to run an alternative mail server on one IP address and have Dovecot and Exim bound to another IP, it's not a...
Read post →From a recent discussion at Slashdot perl -ne '{binmode STDOUT,"utf8";print chr(9585.5+rand);redo}'
Read post →iTunes 11 arrived overnight, hitting Apple's promised November '12 deadline (in the USA at least) and they've finally fixed one of the long-standing interfac...
Read post →With Apple hiding a lot of the more useful and fine-grained controls over the services on OS X Server, the SMB Service is one area that has suffered. There i...
Read post →I've had a pair of Audioengine A2 self-powered desktop speakers for a bit over a year now and they still continue to impress. Easily the best desktop speaker...
Read post →One thing that is a lot harder than it needs to be is managing the internationalisation preferences in OS X from a script, via MCX or via a configuration pro...
Read post →Further to my earlier post on converting videos to MP4 for Apple TV and easy playback from iTunes , I've recently been using another app for adding metadata,...
Read post →To cut a long story short, if you're trying to get Kerio Connect to authenticate against an OD server running on 10.7 or 10.8 (Lion or Mountain Lion) that's...
Read post →It seems that when starting up the SMB service on OS X Mountain Lion Server, there is a race condition and some of the prerequisites may not get started up i...
Read post →I've just installed Jetpack by WordPress.com into this site, the main improvement you'll probably notice is that commenting is easier - you can now comment u...
Read post →Seeing as I've made a grand total of about $7.55 running Google's ads on my site, and seeing as they're pretty ugly, I'm getting rid of them as of now.
Read post →OK, it's no secret, I hate Windows Update. I think it's absolutely unbelievable how many updates it needs to run, and how many times it needs to reboot, befo...
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