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iTunes –‘Random’ Shuffle & Recently Unplayed
Listening to music whenever at my Mac, I’ve come to realise iTunes shuffle doesn’t actually shuffle as you might expect. That is, it’s not completely random. Tracks are selected based on skip count and...
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Toggle Keyboard Viewer in Snow Leopard 10.6
Ever since upgrading to Snow Leopard, one function I’ve missed is the ability to toggle the Keyboard Viewer on and off with an applescript. It looks like Apple modified the Keyboard Viewer utility for...
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Toggling Caffeine with Quicksilver to keep your Mac awake
Caffeine is a tiny little app that keeps your Mac awake when needed; be it when you’re watching a video (for some reason, Adobe Flash doesn’t keep your Mac awake), reading something off your screen, or...
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Mac OS X Dock Resource Folder
We all know that we should back up all the time, especially if we’re going to go tinkering with OS X’s insides. Seeing someone had accidentally messed up their dock resources folder (found in...
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1Password Plugin for Quicksilver
I’ve recently developed a 1Password plugin for Quicksilver that gives you the ability to open up 1Password items in 1Password, as well as giving you an action to ‘Go & Fill’ logins directly from...
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Batch compress all files in a folder with YUI Compressor
I’ve recently read up on the importance of site performance for search engine optimisation (SEO).Google is saying that this year (2010) it may start using the speed your site loads as a factor in...
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Shortening URLs in-house
All websites now use URL extensions that redirect for easy to remember URLs.A recent example is Google’s http://google.com/pacman – a simple / and one word is much easier to remember than say...
View ArticleUpdating Mac OS X 10.6.4 Snow Leopard ‘too many files’ problem
Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.4 has been released, and I’m sure everyone is immediately rushing to download it.I did the same, but was left staring at the message:The Installer encountered an error that...
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Donating for my Quicksilver 1Password Plugin
If you’ve not heard about the 1Password Plugin I’ve developed for Quicksilver, then I suggest you check it out (along with Quicksilver!)Since GitHub doesn’t allow input forms within the README files,...
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MacFusion: 64 bit ready for Lion and Mountain Lion
MacFusion is a great little app for easily mounting folders on your OS X desktop using SSH or FTP. Unfortunately, it seems that the official app’s website hasn’t been updated for a while, and doesn’t...
View ArticleVisa-less countries on a UK Passport
With travelling on my mind, it was in my interest to look at which countries you can visit with a UK passport: either without a visa or by purchasing a visa on arrival. Wikipedia has a pretty complete...
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Vox 0.3 on Mountain Lion (Fixed)
I’ve spent some time looking around for Vox alternatives for Mountain Lion. Since the Mac OS X 10.8 update, Vox 0.3 beta 1 has been struggling to perform. After a quick Google search, and a read of a...
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Xcode – still using Garbage Collection
Apple deprecated Garbage Collection with the release of Mountain Lion (OS X 10.8), in favour of ARC, the supposedly ‘killer’ memory management solution… we’ll see[1] Is GC (Garbage Collection)...
View ArticleI’m in the business for work
As of May 2013, I’m currently looking for freelance work for all projects small and big. Anything from web design, to mobile apps to Mac OS X Applications are in my agenda. Projects I’m currently...
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