Archive for the ‘Mac’ Category

Your App’s Website Sucks

Thursday, June 24th, 2010

An insightful, if somewhat cynical look at how not too design a website which accompanies your App Store app.

Clone your XP/Vista bootcamp partition

Sunday, May 2nd, 2010

With WinClone which you can find here.

Mac: download google books

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010

By using this splendid application.

MacBook Pro Battery Life Tips

Sunday, February 21st, 2010

Save your battery life by taking at look at GiantMike.com’s helpful article.

Do you think Mac Time Capsule hourly backups are a little excessive?

Sunday, January 24th, 2010

Change the frequency of Time Capsule backup by editing the following le with your text editor of choice

/System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.backupd-auto.plist

And looking for the section

<key>StartInterval</key>
<integer>3600</integer>

The value 3600 specifies the backup interval in seconds (i.e. 1 hour). Change this value to whatever you see fit – I have changed it to 14400 (or 4 hours).

Needless to say, proceed with caution when editing you Mac’s system settings, and if you do mess up it’s nothing to do with me, right?

iPlayer Grabber, the iPlayer downloader for Mac OS X

Thursday, July 2nd, 2009

iPlayer Grabber is a freeware application based on opensource technology for downloading programs from the BBC’s iPlayer on Mac OS X.

I was rather surprised to see this when browsing my new Time Capsule…..

Saturday, June 6th, 2009

arsebundle2

I didn’t know that the Time Capsule even had an arse, let alone a enough of them to warrant a  bundle….

View CHM files on your Mac

Sunday, March 1st, 2009

The application ICHM does the job admirably, it has a cute logo and you can find it here.

Re-Add Selected Tracks as Podcast v1.2

Sunday, January 11th, 2009

Mac users: convert your mp3 tracks into podcasts. Splendid.

If you’re asking why, you don’t need it.