Our thinking
Technical notes and observations from years of supporting creative businesses on Mac.
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 →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 →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 →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 →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 →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 →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 →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 →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 →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...
Read post →Growl's installer helpfully includes a postflight script that opens up the System Preferences app so that you can configure the Growl options. This is genera...
Read post →Adobe now have a blog (with atom and rss feeds) where you can quickly and easily see what the latest updates for Creative Suite 5 are. In addition to this fe...
Read post →I've been using Myriad as the Automatica corporate font but until now there was no easy way to reflect the design of the printed page on the internet. TypeKi...
Read post →I've got an Xserve running, among other things, iChat server. To tidy things up, I wanted to have all users with a login of something like [email protected] r...
Read post →I'm still testing this and aren't at a fully working solution just yet, but it's looking promising so far. I'm wanting to try out Kerio Control but don't wan...
Read post →If you have a large number of items in a single mailbox in Entourage, when you import into Apple Mail it will import no more than 6000 items from one mailbox...
Read post →Read this carefully as it may save you a long drive on a cold night, as it did for me. So, I'm working on an Xserve somewhere over the other side of Melbourn...
Read post →Over on the Webalys blog, there's an excellent for user interface design and mockups. All free for commercial and non-commercial use and high quality - even...
Read post →Apple have released Safari 5.0.1 today which, among other things, fixes a bug in WebKit that makes the body of a Mail message have a black background when th...
Read post →I've been looking into Playback recently as an option for playing back media files on the PS3. Playback is great in that it also allows you to stream media t...
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