Posts tagged osx

Network Link Conditioner

Matt Gemmell:

In the Finder, take a look in the Utilities folder (Go menu, Utilities – or press Command Shift U). You should see a folder called “Network Link Conditioner”, which contains a preference pane for System Preferences.

Network Link Conditioner

I can’t believe how I missed this. Great catch by Matt and what a incredibly use-full developer tool.

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Posted at 10:06 AM 06 August 2011

⌚ Pre-WWDC keynote thoughts

It’s June again, which can mean only 2 things. Summer is approaching fast and Apple geeks are going out of their minds over an approximately 2 hour lasting speech of their favorite tech company at the WWDC. Which is an acronym for World Wide Drinking Contest, or at least so I was told. If they are lucky there will even ben an infamous One More Thing™ at the end of it. The expectations are always sky high and approach the levels of things such as world piece, hoverboards or even something as ludicrous as flash for iOS.

In order to maintain your sanity it’s usually advisable to avoid all blogs and news sites in the build-up to this event. In order to avoid the power of the Reality Distortion Field (and maintain your solvency) it’s also advisable stock up on necessary supplies and to either not watch the dreaded keynote address or to lock away all credit and or debit cards for at least 2 weeks in order for the effects of the RDF to wear off. For best results I recommend you do both.

Last year I only partially took my own advise and watched the keynote anyway. Even-though I locked away all forms of payment I ended up pre-ordering both a white and black iPhone 4 as-well as buying iMovie for iOS (I blame iTunes ease of purchase for that one). This year I couldn’t help myself either and followed all the blogs and predictions anyway therefor exposing myself to the traditional WWDC disappointment rage.

I am however immune to this post-keynote rage since this year the biggest disappointment for me is not attending.

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Tagged with wwdc, apple, ios, icloud, osx, lion,
Posted at 9:47 AM 06 June 2011

Mac software to add searchable text to scanned PDFs

Marco Arment did some research on OCR Software for Mac. Could have used this about a month ago when my father asked me for the best OCR software. Without much research my father went with Read Iris and I haven’t heard many complaints yet. Marco comes to a different conclusion however, check it out.

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Tagged with mac, ocr, osx, software, scanning, pdf,
Posted at 4:00 PM 01 June 2011

OSX Release of Steam imminent ?

What a brilliant marketing scheme from valve

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Posted at 9:43 PM 03 March 2010
Just finished my monthly clean-up. Had to share.

Just finished my monthly clean-up. Had to share.

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Posted at 1:20 AM 13 February 2010