Posts tagged with osx

BT-1000P mini-review on a mac

June 12th, 2008

Am soon going away on a little trip, over to Europe, through Tokyo. Wishing to record my trip, as well as have some data for geocoding the photos, I went on a quest to find a GPS unit that allowed me to:

  • log data to internal memory
  • make sure there’s LOTS of memory
  • and lots of battery

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Get Nightly WebKit without SVN

April 13th, 2008

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Everyone agrees that WebKit is the faster browser engine. Plus its my favourite browser/engine in OSX

Problem is that it doesn’t update itself automatically - and every night there’s a beautiful new build that comes out - which I simply must have.

So in order to save you time - here’s a little script that I put together this afternoon that will download the latest build at the push of a button. Read more »

OSX Not Colour Calibrated

March 20th, 2008

It seems that Apple left one thing out of the equation for Safari 3.1 - colour adherence. With my new Dell 2408WFP, I was getting quite stroppy - as no matter how many times I would calibrate it - it would continually not show the correct colours as compared to my MacBook Pro screen [matte] - or so it seemed. I initially posted two photos on DPreview hoping to ascertain some unknown out of the crown. Here is the MacBook Pro screen with the ‘correct’ colour. Read more »

Neat Lightroom Shortcut

March 17th, 2008

Ever wanted to hide the left+right pane’s within Lightroom without having either custom defined shortcuts, or modifying OS X keyboard preferences to enable function keys? Read more »