Category Archives: Macintosh

One DAM to rule them all

Posted on February 15, 2010 by Kevin

With the release of Aperture 3 I think I am back to where I was quite a few years back with one application I am happy to use for all my Digital Asset Management. Many moons ago I was a … Continue reading →

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Currently Reading

Posted on July 15, 2008 by Kevin

Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X by Aaron Hillegass See it on Amazon.co.uk

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Testing Clients (Part 2)

Posted on April 24, 2008 by Kevin

And the winner is MarsEdit 2. A quick powerful tool that slots nicely into the workflow, and does not demand too much of my attention to make a sensible post with it.

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Fine tune your Mac’s volume

Posted on April 14, 2008 by Kevin

Mac 101: fine tune your Mac’s volume A great (Leopard Only) tip if the volume up and down on your keyboard are not fine enough control for you. (Via The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW).)

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Freedom from the Desktop (pt 2)

Posted on January 8, 2008 by Kevin

Well..stage 2 is now complete with the addition of the much promised NAS to my home network. In the end I went for an Infrant (now Netgear) ReadyNAS NV+, which gives me about 680 GB storage after building the RAID 5 volume … Continue reading →

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Freedom from the Desktop

Posted on June 20, 2007 by Kevin

I had tried out the whole laptop as a desktop a bit with my wife’s Powerbook G4, but I didn’t want to completely take over her machine with all my development crap, so it was time for my own when … Continue reading →

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iPod Nano

Posted on September 13, 2005 by Kevin

The iPod Nano is not only a darned sexy looking bit of kit, but according to this it is tougher than first impressions would suggest. Caution should be used if you are of a nervous disposition about inflicting unnecessary damage … Continue reading →

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Multibooting Intel Macs

Posted on July 26, 2005 by Kevin

Over at Jasbone.com they have been experimenting with an Intel Mac development machine, and have built a machine that can run all of the major OSes. See the details here. It’s certainly a step up from Virtual PC! EDIT: It … Continue reading →

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iTunes (with added Podcasting)

Posted on June 28, 2005 by Kevin

Today Apple has released iTunes 4.9, and what’s new this time …Podcasting. Choose you favourite podcasts from the lists on the iTunes music store or add your own favourites. Then subscribe (or just listen) to them or download to your … Continue reading →

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