Mac OS X: Disable LCD Font Smoothing on Mac OS X

But somewhere in my upgrades, the LCD Font Smoothing has been enabled – this makes the fonts on the screen look blurry /fuzzy due to sub-pixel rendering which is not necessary on Apple screens or retina displays.

OS X: Comparing Microsoft Word Documents in Kaleidoscope on Mac OS X

Have you ever needed to compare two Microsoft Word documents to see what change have been been made by your editor ? I’m using Kaleidoscope to perform exactly that. Works for text, image and code too.

Screencast: Knowledge Management in Technology – Part 3

Network Engineers have to manage a lot of information. Products, technologies, textbooks, study notes and research material as well as new protocols and features. Just simple tasks like keeping product manuals handy for 40 or 50 products is a real problem. How do you keep the information organised, referenced, accessible and useful ? Your employer [...]

Screencast: Knowledge Management in Technology – Part 2

Network Engineers have to manage a lot of information. Products, technologies, textbooks, study notes and research material as well as new protocols and features. Just simple tasks like keeping product manuals handy for 40 or 50 products is a real problem. How do you keep the information organised, referenced, accessible and useful ? Your employer [...]

Screencast: Knowledge Management in Technology – Part 1

Network Engineers have to manage a lot of information. Products, technologies, textbooks, study notes and research material as well as new protocols and features. Just simple tasks like keeping product manuals handy for 40 or 50 products is a real problem. How do you keep the information organised, referenced, accessible and useful ?

This three part screencast is about how I manage all the “inputs” so I don’t feel lost in information after many, many people asked.

Max OSX: Set Default Font in OmniGraffle

A quick tip on setting the Text Tool in OmniGraffle to your favourite font. I have my preferred font when creating diagrams and you set effectively make it the default font. There are two ways that involve the way you choose the Text Tool. One ‘trick’ is to press click and  hold on the Text Tool and [...]

DevonThink for Automatic Content Discovery

I’ve got a lot of content in my DevonThink system. As you can see here, over 805 files in the Inbox of my gfDefaultInbox alone. Note: Click on the images for fulle     I’ve been promising myself to spend some time looking into LISP, and I KNOW that I’ve been collecting content about LISP for [...]

Thunderbolt and Lightning – Apple Connectors

So now Apple has “Thunderbolt and Lightning”

Important to Get Data Out and Well as In

A look at a key feature of my favourite anything box – exporting and why I don’t use Evernote.

OSX: SmartSleep App Review

Quick review of one of my favourite system tool for the Mac – SmartSleep