Category: OSX

  • Undo Closed Tabs in Safari 5.0

    This is a neat new feature in safari 5. If you close one of your tabs by mistake you can “undo” it by pressing Cmd+z (in OSX) or Ctrl-z (in Windows). Neato :-)

  • Screen Sharing on mac the easy way……

    Well, you learn something new everyday. I was always under the impression that you needed Apple Remote Desktop application to connect to a mac that was sharing it’s screen (or vncviewer app). Today I stumbled across another way of doing this without any of these apps……just using the build in “Screen Sharing” application. The easy…

  • The man behind the Mac Chime…….

    OMT in San Francisco #3: ‘Let it beep’ from One More Thing on Vimeo. Really cool video of Jim Reekes talking about his thought process in designing sounds for the mac, including the big fat C major chord which your mac plays every time you start it. Jim Reekes was a programmer at Apple Computer…

  • How to stream live HDV/DV to iphone…..

    In this guide I’ll show you how to stream live HDV/DV video to your iphone using a linux box (Ubuntu 9.10) with firewire input running vlc/ffmpeg and a Imac with OSX 10.6.2 running mediastreamsegmenter and apache2. Start out with the iPhone streaming media overview. Without understanding this document you’ll have a hard time getting things…

  • iPhone Explorer turns your iPhone/iTouch into a USB stick…..

    One of the original reasons I bought my first ipod (first gen 5 Gig) was that I could hook it up to my mac and use it as a firewire drive. I could literally run around with this in my pocket and boot OSX off the ipod. Well that came to an end with the…

  • Movist…..will it be the next VLC for mac….

    The answer to that is maybe, we’ll see. But all that aside if you’re interested in a minimalistic video player that can handle more codecs than VLC and is generally faster then give Movist a try. The unique thing about the player is that it allows you to switch codec engines between ffmpeg and quicktime…

  • ._ resource fork files don’t work properly in OSX 10.6 Samba……

    Well the title is a bit misleading…..here are the details. I found out that if you have a NTFS native shared directory on your server, everything works fine as long as you’re using OSX 10.5 (Leopard) or below as a client. You can move files from Leopard and/or Tiger clients to the share and as…

  • Hiding Files and Folders in OSX Finder…..

    If you ever have a need to simply hide extraneous files and/or folder entries in Finder you can use the following command:chflags hidden ~/MoviesThis example will hide the “Movies” folder from showing up in Finder. There is a easy way to get to the folder if you decide to later on, just go to Finder’s…

  • Elgato turbo.264 HD video encoding coprocessor review…….

    I just picked one of these babies up from the apple store and after testing it a bit for the past hour, I have one word for it: WOW. This little guy is no gimmick, it’s zippy as hell and it does exactly what they say it would. The details for the device are on…

  • WineBottler makes running Windows Applications in OSX simpler……

    Let’s be clear on this, Wine, which is what WineBottler uses, lets you run Windows software on other operating systems. With Wine, you can install and run these applications just like you would in Windows without the need for a emulator or virtual machine. Not every program works yet, however there are already several million…