Category Archives: Mac OS

Mac App Store

Posted on May 20, 2011 by Ben Lavery

I love the Mac App Store.  Opening back in January, all Mac users running OS X 10.6.6 or higher have had the chance to play with the store.

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Adium Gains IRC Support – Colloquy to die?

Posted on November 2, 2010 by Ben Lavery

Adiam is an awesome app for OS X which is based on the same code as Pidgin.  Adium has the advantage of being the same as many other open source instant messenger clients out there as well as being coded … Continue reading →

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Mac OS 10.7

Posted on October 24, 2010 by Ben Lavery

Once again, late to the blogsphere as usual. Yesterday Apple announced it’s plans for the next iteration of OS X – 10.7 “Lion”. Lion will concentrate  on bringing technologies “back to the Mac”, indeed this phrase was the tagline to … Continue reading →

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Apple releases new iTunes and OS X v10.6.4, another release predicted prior to iPhone 4 release?

Posted on June 17, 2010 by Ben Lavery

Yesterday Apple released iTunes 9.2 touting the following enhancements:

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Remote Volume, the Geeky Way

Posted on June 1, 2010 by Ben Lavery

Today I was sitting in the chair watching a film playing on my Mac Pro.  After much getting up and sitting back down to turn the light off, tilt the screen, etc. I found that the sound was too quiet, … Continue reading →

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Dropbox

Posted on April 2, 2010 by Ben Lavery

Ever wanted to store stuff online but couldn’t afford web hosting?  If so, Dropbox is your answer! Dropbox offers both free and paid for storage online, the free storage has a limit of 2GB, whereas paid sotrage has a limits … Continue reading →

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Whence and Whenceman

Posted on March 31, 2010 by Ben Lavery

On the UNIX command line, the `which` command is great, it tells you where a command is in the system.  However, if your system has two versions of the `ls` command, it will only tell you which `ls` command you … Continue reading →

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Gruml

Posted on March 30, 2010 by Ben Lavery

I get mildly annoyed when using applications that are hosted on the web.  For example, I’ll use web mail if I have to, but I’d much rather use Apple Mail or Thunderbird… Anyway, I’ve been using Google Reader for the … Continue reading →

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Snow Leopard ships!

Posted on August 27, 2009 by Ben Lavery

I pre-ordered my copy on Monday at work, and this morning was greeted by this:

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Apple updates Java!

Posted on June 15, 2009 by Ben Lavery

Well, we’ve been waiting, what, about two years for this now.  Today, Apple released Java 6 as part of it’s Java for Mac OS X 10.5 Update 4. The support docs (found here) say that in this 158MB update we … Continue reading →

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