July 4, 2010
Now that I’ve disabled Comic Sans, I’ll never have to suffer through it again!
(at least not on my computer)
On your Mac, open Font Book in the Applications folder, find Comic Sans, and click the checkbox disable button down the bottom. If that isn’t satisfying enough, you may also enjoy deleting it completely. (although I think I have to say I wouldn’t recommend that.)
Macs are great. They don’t crash too much, and you don’t have to restart them too often. However, it’s still good to shut down & restart them regularly.
After doing a bunch of work in Photoshop/Illustrator/InDesign, I opened up my iStat Menus Memory panel, and found that my Mac was using 2.3GB of swap files! (I’ve seen it use even more than that sometimes). My 4GB of ram isn’t enough, so it had to save some things on my hard drive as well.
This can slow down your computer, and uses up hard drive space!
Even after quitting all the programs I had open, the swap files just stuck around.
When I restart my computer (after writing this blog post), my Mac will clean out all it’s swap files, and I’ll gain a bonus 2.3GB of hard drive space! (which means a lot, when you’re the sort of person that just keep finding ways to use it all up)
March 21, 2010
When Is Good just saved heaps of our time organising a dinner with some friends.
The quick survey, where people select what dates their available on, narrowed the whole month into 1 day we’re all available!
(In only a couple of hours — no hundreds of emails back and forth, ‘reply-all’ing everyone!)
March 4, 2010
Nothing more, nothing less… just an ‘Error’
Another reason I don’t use Windows. Actually, to be fair, Mac isn’t immune to random errors either (but usually a little less random)
Bonus points — How many times can you spot the Microsoft logo?
February 15, 2010
No, I’m not talking about my blog 
I don’t really want to unsubscribe from Smashing Magazine, but I think I have to — I don’t have enough time to read most of it anyway.
Here’s an article that I came across that pretty much sums up my opinion on posting too much:
In related news, my RSS reader shows a record-breaking low in unread items, after pruning back my subscription list. That feels a lot more satisfying than seeing 200 or so. (Although it’s not as bad as someone I saw with tens of thousands of unread items…)
January 9, 2010
The 15th of October in 1582 was a very special day. For fun, try typing it into iCal on your mac. (From the View menu select “Go To Date…”, and enter in 15/10/1582). If you’re in month view, you’ll find it’ll show you September, an no matter how hard you try, you won’t be able to find October of 1582! If you go to week view however, you’ll find October, but something will be wrong…
There’s 10 days missing!
I can’t really explain it all, but there’s a pretty interesting article on the Panic Blog that does it pretty well.
November 8, 2008
After using iChat and Adium on my mac for so long, I decided to try the real Windows Live Messenger…
You may want to see the large size to get a closer look at its ugliness.
July 14, 2008
Paparazzi is a very useful program for Mac that takes pictures of websites. This is much better than using keyboard shortcuts (command + shift + 4) because if the web page is longer than your screen (as usual), Paparazzi will capture the whole page as one image.
Paparazzi uses WebKit, so it will look the same as in Safari. This means that if you want to take a picture of something you must log in for, such as a wordpress control panel, you can!
You can download Paparazzi from www.derailer.org/paparazzi/.
