Posted 2 days, 23 hours ago at 4:42 pm. 0 comments

Did you know that if you hold down SHIFT-COMMAND-4 you can take a picture of any part of your screen? Press SHIFT-COMMAND-4 and your cursor will turn into a cross-hair. (Try it right now!) Click and drag over anything and you can take a picture. It’s how most of the small pictures on this website are made.
Useful for all kinds of things, for example:
Grab a screenshot of a keynote graph:

Grab a heading from pages:

Grab a receipt from a webpage:

Or any information you want to keep:

I use Shift-Apple-4 a few times every day!
Also, Shift-Apple-3 takes a shot of the entire screen – I use this much less.
Posted 4 days, 17 hours ago at 10:06 pm. 0 comments
Selling a 3G iphone here.
Posted 2 months, 1 week ago at 12:29 am. 0 comments
To watch digital TV on you mac you first need some hardware to get a signal into your computer, then you need software to display it and record programs etc. Continue Reading…
Posted 2 months, 2 weeks ago at 10:12 pm. 0 comments

1. To integrate things and ical, look here. This will put all your things next and today items into ical.
2. To integrate mail with things, use this script. Place it in your mail scripts folder (User/Library/Scripts/Applications/Mail), or put it anywhere and use the free beta version of Mail Act on from here or you can download the latest full verion from here). It will take the current email and turn it into a things todo without you even leaving mail.
Posted 2 months, 3 weeks ago at 3:40 pm. 4 comments

I’ve had a few goes at getting a browsing pack for a Telstra pre-paid iphone, it took a while for Telstra to work out how to get it going, here’s how to do it. Continue Reading…
Posted 3 months ago at 2:43 pm. 0 comments

MacHeist every year or so do a collection of software as a bundle, this year it’s a beauty. Check it out at macheist.com
Posted 3 months, 2 weeks ago at 3:19 pm. 0 comments

Well as great as the iphone is, the software is laggign a fair way behind and calendar syncign is one example.
After many hours, here’s a solution I found to sync multiple calendars across different computers, with anyone being able to edit the calendars, and see them on your iphone as well.
1. SET UP A MASTER CALENDAR Your master calendar needs to be in google (not on your mac). So create a google calendar here. Because I wanted to share it among my colleagues and have them edit it, I created a special goggle account just for this calendar. After you create the calendar you can export your existing events from your mac as an ics file and import them into google calendar.
2. SYNC IT TO ICAL Download a little google application called ‘Calaboration’ from here which will add your google calendar to ical. You will need to enter your google id and password. You will need to run Calaboration on any mac you want to access the google calendar on.
3. SYNC IT TO IPHONE Your iphone can sync to google calendar via the Microsoft Exchange option on the iphone. Google is basically being an exchange server that your phone syncs to. The instructions are here.
NOTE: Even though google can have multiple calendars on one account, only the first calendar from the google account will sync to ical, so if you want 2 calendars, you need to make a separate google calendar and then sync it with Calaboration.
Posted 3 months, 2 weeks ago at 3:02 pm. 3 comments

For a short time typinator is free. It’s one of many macro apps that allow you to have prefigured phrases that are automatically typed. You can get it from here.