If This Then That
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...
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Technical notes and observations from years of supporting creative businesses on Mac.
Quick Review - Audioengine A2 self-powered speakers
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 →Test Websites In Internet Explorer 9, 8 and 7 Under Linux / Mac OSX
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 →Update to Automated Installs of Mac OS X Lion
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 →Quick Tip - telnet with ssl
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...
Read post →It's a girl!
A new addition to the family arrived this morning at 00:17 weighing in at a respectable 4.33kg. Mum and bubby both doing very well.
Read post →Putting my money where my mouth is...
I've always thought that there is a place and a time to use the cloud, and to be honest, Automatica has been using Google Apps for the past two years to host...
Read post →Apple Consultants Network
Automatica is now a member of the Apple Consultants Network . This means that Kai has undertaken certification by Apple and has passed all of Apple's backgro...
Read post →List all users in /Users folder
Quick one-liner for bash: for user in `ls /Users/`; do if [ $user == "Shared" ]; then continue; fi; echo $user; done
Read post →Set up a transparent Apple Software Update Server
Update - Jan 2013 - this is quickly going to become obsolete, with Apple's release of Server.app version 2.2 for Mountain Lion , this enables a transparent c...
Read post →How to get a real IP address on Telstra Next G
The Telstra Next G 3G internet service is fast, works well in a lot of areas around Australia and can be sorted out fairly cheaply these days. One big downsi...
Read post →Console not updating or asl manager taking 100% CPU
Here's how to restart the Mac OS X 10.6 log managers after removing asl data. Corrupt asl data will either cause the logs in Console.app to not update or the...
Read post →Bad Sectors on a hard drive
I was recently discussing hard drive errors with someone and they came up with the idea of zeroing out a hard drive to fix the bad sectors. Zeroing out the d...
Read post →The Seven Myths Of The NBN | newmatilda.com
This is essential reading. We really need the NBN. The Seven Myths Of The NBN | newmatilda.com .
Read post →Where have you been?
It seems that for some unknown reason, your iPhone keeps a record of every cell tower that it's ever talked to, and this data is marked with the current time...
Read post →AirPort Express/AirTunes decoder in Software...
I'm now on my 5th AirPort Express as the others have all just died on me (and even this one is a bit flakey). It's generally the power supplies that have gon...
Read post →Fix printing to the HP LaserJet 1022 Series under 10.6 Snow Leopard
I've got a cheap and cheerful HP LaserJet 1022 attached via USB to my Mac Pro. Up until 10.6 came along, it worked perfectly. Then, once Snow Leopard arrived...
Read post →The Dark Side of the Loom
The Dark Side of the Loom | Flickr - Photo Sharing! .
Read post →NGVstudio - Everfresh - Graffiti always wins on Vimeo
Check out the video of this wall being created for the NGV Studio at ACMI. "Everfresh was invited by the National Gallery of Victoria to be part of the new s...
Read post →The Chapel - HDR video
Here's a short film on Vimeo - The Chapel paying tribute to an exceptional protestant temple in Zeliszów, Poland, designed by Karl Langhans and built in 1796...
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