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 (…)

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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 (…)

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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 (…)

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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 (…)

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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 (…)

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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 (…)

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