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  Crossloop now for Mac!

  Stii 2:46 pm on May 5, 2009 | Comments: 0 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: applemac, crossloop, Software (3), technical support, tools (3)

  Some time ago, on my now defunct blog, I raved about Crossloop. With good reason too. It makes desktop sharing fantastically simple. I then moved to Apple Mac and forgot about it, until now! They released an OS X version! (Although, in all honesty, i have not tested the Mac version yet!)

  The big plus is that it enables desktop sharing between Mac and Windows. Yes, I know both of them have Remote Desktop sharing, thing is, Crossloop just makes it so much more simple! Check it out. It really is as simple as:

  

  This is a great technical support tool. A must have in the tools arsenal!

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  Force tabs instead of new windows for Safari

  Stii 11:53 am on March 5, 2009 | Comments: 2 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: applemac, browsers (3), firefox (2), flock, osx (7), safari (2)

  The new Safari 4 is awesome. It is in fact better than Firefox/Flock for a change. It looks fantastic, has great new features and is much faster. The only problem is new windows not opening in new tabs. IMHO, it is a silly mistake Apple makes! It should be a setting you can change in your preference window like any other.

  In your preference window you can select:
  ⌘ – click opens a link in a new tab

  Brilliant. Clicking on links in different ways does different things with those links.

  The problem though is that when a link on a site has the HTML attribute target=”_blank” set (which opens a new window) Safari opens a new window instead of a new tab for that window. Firefox handles it correct in that it opens a new tab, not a new window.

  However, this can be fixed easily on Mac. Simply open up the terminal and execute:

  $ defaults write com.apple.Safari TargetedClicksCreateTabs -bool true
  

  After that, restart Safari if it was running for the setting to take effect and the problem is solved.

  On Windows it seems there are no easy fix. We had a look this morning and could not find something.

  This is quite a stupid mistake Apple made. If you look at how intuitive OSX is and how big they are on usability, this is shocking by Apple standards. Even the fix on OSX is such an obscure one. Why not simply add it to the preferences window? Why should one have to run a command to fix it? Blegh. We’ll see what happens.
  
   
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  Incredible Connection's great Apple Mac deal

  Stii 1:57 pm on February 4, 2009 | Comments: 4 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: applemac, imac, incredible connection, macbook (3)

  Since Jason Bagley launched Incredible Connection’s blog it was received with much mixed responses. Personally, I’ve bought a couple of things from them in the past and never had any issues with them. Then again, I never had any technical issues and never had to go back to them. I can understand negativity if you had a bad experience.

  Not to be bashing anything, I can however say that probably the biggest mistake you’ll make is to buy a PC with Windows on it. That is not their fault! If you do and complain about it, you’re blaming your mistakes on someone else. It’s that simple. Don’t even start with “but games/software/whatever don’t run on…” just don’t. It makes you look ignorant and silly. Really, there is simply no excuse.

  For a extremely positive experience, you can go and take Incredible Connection up on this brilliant offer: Bring in any old computer and get insane discounts on Macbook and iMac products.

  

  See, now I can already see blokes saying: “Nah, but the discounts was worked into the prices” Bollocks. Go and compare the original prices to ZA Store (official Apple ZA site).

  It is a pretty solid deal. Take it and stop whining. It is the cheapest brand new Apple Macs you’ll find ANYWHERE in South Africa!
  
   
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  Flash drive loses storage space and...

  Stii 12:33 pm on January 28, 2009 | Comments: 9 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: applemac, osx (7)

  …is driving me nuts. I noticed it the first time with my own flash drive on OS X. I delete files off it, but the storage space left keeps on getting smaller and smaller. At first I could not see why in the name of Riku Lätti it did that. I opened up the Terminal App and:

  $ cd /Volume/FlashDiskName
  $ ls -al
  

  I saw there was a hidden folder called .Trash and when I did a scan of that folder I noticed it is full of old shit long time deleted. Now, for me it was cool every time going on the command line to empty the hidden trash folder, but just now Lester complained that it is not going to work so well for him :/

  The solution on OS X is to enable Finder to show hidden files. Here are the steps:

  Open up your Terminal.app (it can be found in Applications -> Utilities -> Terminal.app)
  On the command line do the following:

  $ defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE
  $ killall Finder
  

  Open up Finder again and go to your flash drive and you’ll see the .Trash folder. Empty the bugger.

  I’m not sure why some flash drives do this. I’m not even sure if all of them do it. Maybe there is a better way somewhere out there to disable flash drives doing it. If you know of some way, let us know!
  
   
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  Play Star Wars IV in ASCII

  Stii 11:46 am on January 21, 2009 | Comments: 5 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: applemac, ascii, games (6)

  Play Star Wars Episode IV in ASCII. I’m not sure if this works on Windows, but it does in Apple Mac’s terminal and are pretty sure it will work in the Linux Command line. Maybe Linux guys can let me know?

  Open your terminal and Telnet to towel.blinkenlights.nl:

  $ telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl
  

  And enjoy! Nice and retro baby!

  

  

  
  
   
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  Tetris in Emacs (on OS X)

  Stii 3:26 pm on January 9, 2009 | Comments: 0 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: applemac, emacs, games (6), osx (7)

  After my previous post about Tetris on OS X, I thought I’d let you know that you can also play Tetris in the Emacs editor on Unix based systems. Here is how you’d do it:

  1. Open your terminal (Found in Applications > Utilities > Terminal.app)
  2. On the command line type in emacs and press enter. This would open Emacs for you
  3. In Emacs press Esc+x and type in tetris and press enter. Viola! you are playing Tetris!

  Of course, as you can see from the screenshot below, its not the best quality you’ve ever seen! Thing is, if you feel traumatized at work for whatever reason and you cannot wait for Quinn to download, this is a good alternative! ;-)

  
  
   
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  Tetris for OS X (gaming is good for you)

  Stii 3:04 pm on January 9, 2009 | Comments: 0 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: applemac, games (6), osx (7)

  Just read an article via Muti about how Tetris can be used to treat trauma. I have to admit, I quite like the odd game of Tetris every now and again! I found this nifty little Freeware Tetris game for OS X called Quinn, complete with online leader boards, network play with bonjour support to name a few. If on OS X, you can download it here.

  
  
   
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  Quality Vacation Club

  Stii 10:13 am on December 4, 2008 | Comments: 23 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: applemac, macbook (3), qvc (2)

  An Apple Mac is a wonderful piece of hardware. See, its got this little application called a Dictionary. When I first heard that Donn Edwards is being sued for R461, 500 because he believes he was scammed by QVC (a.k.a. Quality Vacation Club) I did what I’d normally do and consulted my trusty Apple Mac Dictionary.

  The Dictionary app not only gives you the Dictionary definition of the word, but it also has a Thesaurus section giving you related words. Here is what it returned for SCAM:

  the scam involved a series of bogus investment deals fraud, swindle, fraudulent scheme, racket, trick; informal con, hustle, flimflam, bunco, grift, gyp, shakedown.

  Aha! Trick! Lets see what the Dictionary app has to say about Trick:

  a cunning or skillful act or scheme intended to deceive or outwit someone : he’s a double-dealer capable of any mean trick.

  Hmmmmmmmmm…. Isn’t this exactly what happened? I mean, didn’t they “trick” Mr. Edwards in coming to their presentation by telling him he’s won a car, just to find out later that he’s been tricked and in fact didn’t win anything, but in fact lost precious time?

  Bloggers being sued is not new. Hell, bloggers have been jailed for the things they’ve said! Still, they just won’t shut up. Viva La Revolucion!

  Suing Donn Edwards might not have the most clever move. I mean, if one single blog post lost them about R300 000 of income, what is all this talk not going to do?! They should be losing millions by now. Here is some links to other sources:
  Quality Vacation Club on Afrigator
  Here is some posts and articles not on Afrigator:
  Timeshares, annoying phone calls & lawsuits by Roxilla
  Holiday Club is a SCAM by Make a good house a GREAT home
  Is calling people and telling them they have won a prize a scam? by Guy McLaren
  Timeshare ‘sales scam’ on IOL
  Why I think the Quality Vacation Club is a Dubious Organisation by Dominic White
  Quality Vacation Club Bullies Blogger also by Dominic White

  …and I didn’t even spend a lot of time digging!

  So here is my advice to Quality Vacation Club:

  Instead of spending a bunch of money suing bloggers, rather invest in buying some Macbooks for you and your staff. Then next time you get accused of something, consult with the wonderful Dictionary application and see if maybe, just maybe, there isn’t validity in the claims. Could save you millions…