Category: OSX

  • Control GarageBand’s transport functions via MIDI controller….

    You can thank Murat Konar for this free application. GarageRemote is a OSX control panel app that lets you assign MIDI commands to those pesky GarageBand commands. No more using the mouse to press Play/Stop/Record and such. It gets even sweeter if you’ve got a MIDI controller with dedicated shuttle controll buttons.

  • Things you need to know before buying an LCD monitor…..

    Research, research, research…..and then some more research. (most) LCD manufacturers are trying to cut costs down so you need to know what you’re paying for before you walk into the store. So here are a bunch of good sites to go to in order to find the relevant information: Jeff Atwood’s great little introduction of…

  • Access your MAC formatted disks under Windows

    Okay so it’s read-only access, but it’s Free :-). Have a look at HFSExplorer the next time you need to grab a file from that mac formatted firewire drive. It’s a little Java program that allows you full read access to any HFS+/HFSX formatted disk. It works nicely under boot camp to give you access…

  • Sniff the Air on you Mac….

    If you ever need to scan the airwaves for wireless accesspoints, you might want to try the new AirRadar. Yes, there are other programs out there that do similar things (AirStatz or iStumbler), but AirRadar also supports GROWL which is kinda nice

  • What’s Keeping You?

    Have you ever had problems ejecting a disk or emptying your trash under OSX. Did you waste time trying to find the offending program. Well “What’s Keeping Me?” is for you. Just run it the next time you get one of these errors, tell it the name of the file that’s giving you grief and…

  • Bloggers and screen shooters: Disable shadow in window screen captures

    One of the things I don’t really like about OSX Leopard is the fact that everytime you take a screen shot of a window (Command-Shift-4 followed by Spacebar), it put’s a — for us bloggers — not so good looking shadow around the capture. Well not anymore, use the following command to disable the effect:defaults…

  • Some CLI tunes…..

    Just when you thought your command line life was getting boring, we discover these happy tunes for your cut/paste pleasure. Just select the entire line, copy it, open a terminal window, paste it followed by Enter and marvel at your Mac. Yeah it’s a OSX thing and works best under 10.5, so if you’ve got…

  • JumpBox: Super simple way of getting web services deployed.

    If you read our “Open Source Lovin’ for your Server” earlier this year and thought “that’s too much trouble”, here is an even easier way to sample preconfigured Open Source Application Servers at your own leasure. Be it for developement, fun, backup or even production, you can not beat JumpBox at simplicity. What they’ve done…

  • Twitter from Unix/Linux/OSX command line

    Yep, you can. Here is the recipe: 1) You need to install “curl” for your OS. OSX comes with it by default which is nice. Most unices out there also have it installed or have it available for download (Ubuntu, Debian users can use “sudo apt-get install curl” to install).2) Edit a text file using…

  • It’s time to switch….

    If you ever needed a reason to switch to a mac and you were thinking to yourself, “well maybe I’ll wait a bit longer, after all, the malware/virus/trojan scene hasn’t caught up to me yet”, you might want to think again. Today marks the re-release of Virus.Win32.Gpcode.ak virus for the PC platform. This sucker was…