» Next Entries
Category
Software
-
Apple, Mac
MacBook Peculiarities [UPDATE: Mystery Solved]
06.21.07 | Permalink | 2 CommentsHere’s a weird one – my friend Scott and I both have MacBooks, bought a couple of months apart. On his laptop, the Apple logo at the left-hand end of the menu bar and the Spotlight icon at the right-hand end are slightly, but noticeably, smaller than on mine.
I’m sure there’s a simple explanation [...] -
Apple, Mac
MacBook can work in lid-closed mode without a mouse and keyboard
06.21.06 | Permalink | 69 CommentsRight, enough of the metablogging, time for some actual content around here.
I got a MacBook a few weeks ago and I’ve been using it connected to my TV with Apple’s mini-DVI to video adapter to watch movies. Having the laptop open next to the TV, with display mirroring turned on (so I can use [...] -
Mac, Software, Technology
Using Airfoil with VLC
05.03.06 | Permalink | 9 CommentsA quick guide to sending the audio from videos playing in the VLC media player through the Apple Airport Express, and keeping everything nicely synchronised (or “synchronized” for our American friends).
-
Mac, Software
I love Digg
These two comments on digg.com just amused me greatly:
SATURN: One major thing that Camino is missing that Safari has is support for Mac OS X’s spell checker. So I still prefer Safari.Dakoman: Just learn to spell.
-
Mac, Software
Mac OS X Icon for MyFlash
03.30.06 | Permalink | 2 CommentsI have an A-DATA MyFlash PD1 USB flash drive. I wanted a nice pretty icon for when I plug it into my Mac. So I made one.
Download it here (ICNS file) -
Mac, Software
I’m Feeling Lucky, at last.
03.16.06 | Permalink | 4 CommentsI’ve blogged about Camino before – it’s my choice of web browser for the Mac. There has always been one little thing that annoyed me about it though – a brilliant feature which I used all the time in Firefox under Windows and Linux, which wasn’t present in Camino.
-
Mac, Software
Camino 1.0 Released
I’ve been using nightly builds of Camino for a while – for some reason I just like it better than Safari. It uses the Gecko rendering engine – like Firefox – but is much better integrated with OS X. Today, version 1.0 has been released! Try it out if you’re a Mac [...]
-
Projects, Software
Marvin the Mini Web Server
I have been getting extremely fed up with MSN Messenger’s file sending capability recently. It’s ridiculously slow. As a bit of a personal project, I spend some of yesterday and the night before writing some software to get round the problem. It’s a tiny (approx 13Kb) HTTP server written in Java, which [...]
-
Linux, Software
Yoper Linux
I am typing this post from within Yoper, a new distribution of GNU/Linux which I have just installed on my laptop. I’ve been using Linux in university for the best part of two years now, but I’ve never found a distro that I’ve really got on with for use at home. Fedora and [...]
» Next Entries
about
My name is Jamie Matthews. I like science, software, music, photography and all-round miscellaneous geekery.feeds
me, elsewhere
- twitter.com/j4mie
- flickr.com/j4mie
- last.fm/user/j4mie
- github.com/j4mie
- myspace.com/j4mie
- bombcircle design
- photoblog
- ruleset