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How To Solve “No available system font while editing PDF in Adobe Acrobat” Problem
If you’ve tried editing PDF documents using Adobe Acrobat (using the Acrobat Touch Up Text Tool), then you’ve most probably come across this problem that says “No available system font”. Bummer. Now some of you might legitimately have the font when you created the PDF, but might have switched computers, went through an upgrade, or anything [...]
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13. March 2010
Gmail Outages – Scary?
When you place your trust and confidence in an online service, even something as huge as Google, you’re probably thinking that it’s infallible. Which is what I thought about Google and its services too, especially Gmail, which I personally use on a daily basis (actually it’s more like on a 5-minute basis). Then this happened: Scary? It [...]
Continue reading...8. March 2010
How To Resolve Kernel Panics in Mac OSX
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
How To Add Cron or Cron-like Jobs To Mac (With MAMP or Otherwise)
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
Creative Way Of Advertising On Google Maps
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
How To Batch Unzip A Series of Sequential Zip Files In Mac OSX
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
How To Remove/Uninstall KEXTs In Mac OSX
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 [...]
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17. February 2008
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