4th February 2012

Rant: Screen Reading – Comparing Windows and MAC

In the last couple of years, I find that I rarely use physical books to read something new. I recently started a new role that requires me to use a Windows 7 laptop and I’m finding it unreadable. Either there is something wrong with Windows or Apple have done something exceptional with screen displays.

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Productive Mac Software Bundle – Recommended

Some tips on a Mac Bundle

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iTerm 2- Top Tab Tip – Show the Profile Name

Quick tip on configuring iTerm 2 to show the profile names in Tabs – because it annoyed me.

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OSX: Resize Multiple Font Sizes at Once

Resizing all selected text with different sizes byt he same amount. A tip for OSX users.

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OSX: Three Ways to Kill or Force Quit System Processes and Programs

Very occasionally I need to restart a process in OSX. Here some basic suggestions.

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Bluetooth Hangs in OSX 10.6.6

Occasionally my Bluetooth gets all wrong. Here is quick and brutal fix for bluetooth hangs on OS X.

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How to Blank the Screen on a MAC OSX – Updated

Tip for enabling sleep mode with a key sequence that also locks the screen.

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How to Disable Caps Lock in OSX

Ever wanted to disable the Caps Lock key in OSX. I do.

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Uninstalling Flash on Mac OSX for Security

Adobe Flash has another zero day exploit and then I saw this post about removing Flash completely. Here how to do it and survive without Flash.

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Apple Deprecates Java, Network Management Client Software Goes…… Where ? Call for HTML5

Apple has announced the end of Java support for the MAC. This means that all those fat clients so loved by management vendors are looking shaky. About time too, time to piss off those bloody Java software clients and move on.

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