Recently I’ve had a problem with Quicktime throwing up the following error when trying to play a video:
“An invalid public movie atom was found in the movie.”
I’ve searched everywhere for a solution, and couldn’t find one in forums or tech hint sites. However I think i’ve just solved it - for me atleast. I just [...]
If you have zipped up a directory from a Mac OSX machine and unzipped it on a linux box, chances are you have heaps of hidden files that look like ._myfile and ._mydirectory - these are files that OSX uses to keep track of additional information about your files.
To remove these, do the following at [...]
As long as you have SSH access, you can still access ports on a remote server which are blocked via a firewall. You simply need to use a function of the SSH protocol called Port Forwarding (or Tunneling). This process allows you to open a port on your local machine, which is forwarded via SSH [...]
I’m always on the lookout for great open source mac applications, and now there is a site that summarises the best open source applications available for Mac OSX:
www.opensourcemac.org
It’s a simple and easy to view list of all the best open source (free) applications for Mac OSX. I found a few new ones I hadn’t [...]
Recently my Bluetooth on my MacBook Pro stopped working without warning. The bluetooth icon in the top right-hand corner of the screen displayed with a line through it, and showed “Bluetooth Not Available” when I clicked on it. This was REALLY annoying as I use a bluetooth mouse on my Macbook Pro.
Thankfully, it [...]
Accessing Windows machines from your Mac can be really important. It provides you the ability to quickly access Microsoft products and functions without the need for virtualisation.
Microsoft Confusion
Microsoft provides a tool called Remote Desktop Client for Mac which provides this functionality. Unfortunately, this is still in beta and the current version has expired - with [...]
Finally someone has worked out how to use Time Machine with a Network Drive. Hooray! Point your browser here for instructions on how to set it up:
http://smangal.wordpress.com/2007/12/10/time-machine-with-network-drive/
Now if only Apple would make this a ‘feature’ of Time Machine, rather than forcing us to by the Time Capsule…
I recently purchased a new Mac and have been progressively setting it up with all my favorite Mac applications. Google Notifier for Mac is one of these, which monitors my Gmail account and lets me know when I have mail.
Unfortunately, on my new Mac I have not been able to Sign-In to my Google Account [...]
I’ve just discovered a fantastic weather widget for Australian residents called TheBom Weather Widget. It utilises detailed information from the Bureau of Meteorology to provide relevant and up to date Australian weather information and looks great:
Recently we found that the drivers for our Scanner (Epson LP-A500) are either not supported on Leopard or don’t work. So we set about trying to work out how we could scan directly from our Mac (instead of running a windows server/VM to do the job).
The answer is SANE - Scanner Access Now Easy. [...]
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I’ve been trying to get my USB Broadband Modem to work with Leopard for the past few days. Unfortunately the instructions that come with the modem from 3 (my network provider in australia) are out-of-date and don’t work.
So here are the steps to get the modem working:
1. Ignore the instructions that come [...]