I use a Lenovo (IBM) Thinkpad X60s, and I love it, mostly for its excellence durability, reliability, and mobility. The problem comes when I use it for prolonged periods of time, especially since I code and write tons of reports. That’s when I feel that things can be improved somewhat. Read my post on Ergonomic Tips [...]
Continue reading...8. March 2010
I had the fantastic opportunity to be the lucky recipient of kernel panics on my Macbook Pro that happen once every 24-48 hours. I’ve been trying to troubleshoot and resolve the kernel panic, because as you can imagine, it’s extremely counter-productive. I finally resolved it by removing a wonky KEXT (kernel extension) that turned out to [...]
Continue reading...1. March 2010
The Mac runs on Unix, which makes it incredibly powerful. You might be running MAMP or a stand-alone version of Apache, and one of the things that you might want to run is cron, which is a scheduling tool. Instead of cron though, you could actually have your Mac just run a launch daemon. [...]
Continue reading...27. February 2010
The following is a pretty creative way to advertise on Google Maps using Street View! Originally from Creative Advertising With Street View On Google Maps.
Continue reading...24. February 2010
I recently got a bunch of zip files, some sequential (X1.zip, X2.zip, etc), and others not. The thing is, they number in the hundreds, and most contain RAR files within them, and simply extracting each one won’t do. I had to find an automated way to unzip all the zip files, and the utility that [...]
Continue reading...23. February 2010
KEXTs are Kernel Extensions, and I realised that a program that I installed in the past (SteerMouse) had left its KEXT behind even though I uninstalled the program. You can see the list of KEXTs in your system at /System/Library/Extensions/, but do note that Mac OSX only loads whichever KEXT is needed. As you can’t just [...]
Continue reading...19. February 2010
There are several things that I hate, and one of them is spam. The problem with spam is not actually reading the spam, but having to live with all the workarounds that have now surfaced to reduce the onslaught of spam. For example: anti-spam filters in your mail program. In the past, like 10 years [...]
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