Posted 1 week, 1 day ago at 7:15 am. 9 comments
Here’s a list of some programs that you can download for free from versiontracker.com or find via a google search to supplement the software that comes with your mac. Continue Reading…
Posted 4 months, 2 weeks ago at 7:24 pm. 7 comments

To make a backup of your computer that is useful if your computer crashes you need to:
- 1. Buy an external firewire hard drive
- 2. Format the hard drive
- 3. Download some backup software
- 4. Backup your Hard Drive
- 5. Run the backup software often
Now let me explain those steps in more detail.
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Posted 8 months, 1 week ago at 2:02 am. 1 comment

This one is quite an advanced tip.
If you right-click on a file you get a little menu, and if you select ‘open with’ you get a list of all the programs you can open a file with.
After a while of installing new versions of programs, this list can become quite long! Continue Reading…
Posted 8 months, 1 week ago at 1:48 am. 0 comments

There are lots of little applications you can add to your menubar to do things such as see recent clipboard items, stop your mac going to sleep (eg for presentations) and so on.
This site has a real good list of them:
http://menu.jeweledplatypus.org/
Posted 10 months, 4 weeks ago at 3:26 pm. 4 comments
The Optus D736 I think is a Bird D736.
1. Download and run this driver from here.
2. Put a memory card in the phone.
3. Plug in the phone and post a comment here if it works, or if you have to change some settings on the phone. (I have not tested on the bird phone).
Posted 1 year, 1 month ago at 9:03 pm. 43 comments

Well it seems that OSX won’t recognise any Samsung phones. A bit disappointing given their TV adds on how Macintosh is friendly with everything! I rang Samsung and they said ‘we don’t support macintosh’
So to get my samsung D900i working on OSX I had to do this: (I’m not suggesting you do it for whatever reasons like you might sue me if it doesn’t work, but it worked for me).
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Posted 2 years, 6 months ago at 8:23 pm. 1 comment
Switching to OS X from a PC is a big change, It’s a big enough change going from OS9 to OS X. So here are a some of my random thoughts on the transition. Continue Reading…