The New Apple Advantage
I've just starred a new item in Google Reader Peter Bright wrote a good piece earlier this week at Ars Technica , documenting his attempt to buy a MacBook Ai...
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Wacom Inkling
I've just starred a new item in Google Reader Wacom's Inkling is a pen that draws both on paper and on-screen, tracking the artist's linework with 1024 level...
Read post →If This Then That
This new-to-me website – officially known as “ifttt” (how do you pronounce that?) – is brilliant. I signed up yesterday (it looks like it’s currently in publ...
Read post →Quick Review - Audioengine A2 self-powered speakers
Two thumbs up. These tiny desktop speakers punch well above their weight. They are amazingly well built for the price, have a more than powerful enough stere...
Read post →Test Websites In Internet Explorer 9, 8 and 7 Under Linux / Mac OSX
I've just starred a new item in Google Reader Microsoft has created some customized Windows VHDs with the purpose of allowing web designers to test websites...
Read post →Update to Automated Installs of Mac OS X Lion
I've just starred a new item in Google Reader Updated tools are here , or if you've cloned the Git repo, do a `git pull` to get the changes. When the &...
Read post →Quick Tip - telnet with ssl
I've often used telnet to connect to random ports to make sure a service is working (eg: telnet somehost.example.com smtp to see if it's accepting connection...
Read post →It's a girl!
A new addition to the family arrived this morning at 00:17 weighing in at a respectable 4.33kg. Mum and bubby both doing very well.
Read post →Putting my money where my mouth is...
I've always thought that there is a place and a time to use the cloud, and to be honest, Automatica has been using Google Apps for the past two years to host...
Read post →Apple Consultants Network
Automatica is now a member of the Apple Consultants Network . This means that Kai has undertaken certification by Apple and has passed all of Apple's backgro...
Read post →List all users in /Users folder
Quick one-liner for bash: for user in `ls /Users/`; do if [ $user == "Shared" ]; then continue; fi; echo $user; done
Read post →Set up a transparent Apple Software Update Server
Update - Jan 2013 - this is quickly going to become obsolete, with Apple's release of Server.app version 2.2 for Mountain Lion , this enables a transparent c...
Read post →How to get a real IP address on Telstra Next G
The Telstra Next G 3G internet service is fast, works well in a lot of areas around Australia and can be sorted out fairly cheaply these days. One big downsi...
Read post →Console not updating or asl manager taking 100% CPU
Here's how to restart the Mac OS X 10.6 log managers after removing asl data. Corrupt asl data will either cause the logs in Console.app to not update or the...
Read post →Bad Sectors on a hard drive
I was recently discussing hard drive errors with someone and they came up with the idea of zeroing out a hard drive to fix the bad sectors. Zeroing out the d...
Read post →The Seven Myths Of The NBN | newmatilda.com
This is essential reading. We really need the NBN. The Seven Myths Of The NBN | newmatilda.com .
Read post →Where have you been?
It seems that for some unknown reason, your iPhone keeps a record of every cell tower that it's ever talked to, and this data is marked with the current time...
Read post →AirPort Express/AirTunes decoder in Software...
I'm now on my 5th AirPort Express as the others have all just died on me (and even this one is a bit flakey). It's generally the power supplies that have gon...
Read post →Fix printing to the HP LaserJet 1022 Series under 10.6 Snow Leopard
I've got a cheap and cheerful HP LaserJet 1022 attached via USB to my Mac Pro. Up until 10.6 came along, it worked perfectly. Then, once Snow Leopard arrived...
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