Archive for the “Mac” category
Back in Action
by Marshall on May 2, 2006
After hours of toiling around over my Powerbook, I finally decided that I would attempt to replace the drive myself, rather then send it in to Apple and be charged for shipping, labor, and a new drive. I picked up (…)
Powerbook Powerfucked
by Marshall on May 1, 2006
Well…. I am temporarilly without my Powerbook. You see, I was opening up Automator to try to create a New File action, similar to any other respectable operating system, so that I could ctrl-click on a Finder window and create (…)
Updated Firefox Extensions
by Marshall on April 24, 2006
I updated my Favorite Firefox Extensions post with Fission, a plugin which overlays the location bar with a progress bar, a la Safari, and SwiftTabs, a tab switcher. It’s a simple little addition, but once I saw it in action (…)
Virtual Desktops on the Mac
by Marshall on April 24, 2006
Sometimes my little 12″ Powerbook gets a little cluttered and I wish I had a bit more screen space. Today I found VirtueDesktop, which is a Virtual Desktop switcher for the Mac. I have been using it for a bit (…)
A Plane-arium on your desktop
by Marshall on April 6, 2006
Holy crap does Stellarium look cool! It looks like Google Earth for the great abyss we call Space. The best part is that it is open source and cross-platform! Also on the open-source front is htop, a suped-up ncurses version (…)
System Administrators Song
by Marshall on January 3, 2006
You never know when you will need to make your sys-admin laugh.
Freeing Up Space in Tiger
by Marshall on January 3, 2006
TUAW is running a story about cleaning up space on a Apple laptop. I have started this very same thing a few weeks ago by moving my music off to an external drive and relinking iTunes to the music. The (…)