Nowadays lots of the stuff I write ( for example the posts to this blog) is written directly into Safari, my web browser, rather than a word processor. The problem is, Safari doesn’t have automatic spell checking. I discovered a great little bookmarklet called ‘After the Deadline’ which adds spellchecking to any web browser. Continue reading »
Feb 22
Feb 22
It was all very easy when you had one iPod and one computer. But what do you do when you have an iPhone, 4 iPods, and three computers in the same household? Can you sync multiple computers to one iPod or vice versa? Continue reading »
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Feb 02
If you have a friend with a PC chances are they are sending you documents that use fonts such as Calibri, Corbel and so on. Some of them are quite nice. Here is how to install them on your Macintosh for free – Cambria, Calibri, Consolas, Constantia, Corbel and Candara. Continue reading »
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Telstra are a bit behind the times – their latest offerings of wireless modems don’t work under Snow leopard.
Thankfully it’s only the installer that doesn’t work so here’s how to get the wireless router version of their 3G modem working with Snow Leopard. Continue reading »
Jan 20
The children have a new iPod touch for Christmas and you want them to be able to download free apps, without being able to download paid apps to your credit card. Here is how to set up a free account without a credit card. If you want to, you can recharge this account with an iTunes voucher.
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Jan 05
With Snow Leopard Apple have made the pause button on the remote control ALWAYS start and stop itunes. This means if you are watching TV on your mac, and you go to pause it, iTunes starts playing! There is no way to disable this.
The best workaround it to open itunes, and go to the itunes store. From here the play function will not work. You can then minimise itunes and watch TV!
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In this article I explained how to download a youtube video with safari, but it does not work form some websites, eg vimeo. There’s a neat little app from here called videobox that you can download that will download flash video from any website and convert it from flv to to mp4 for you. Another option is cosmopod. Continue reading »
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