Archive: osx

If you use an external drive on your Mac and find yourself looking at the spinning colour wheel all the time waiting for the drive to spin up again, then this tip is for you. Just go into system preferences and then energy saving and untick the box that says “put the hard drives to [...]

Contiuing my project to get my Mac to feel like a proper PC and not cause me mental strain every time I switch to it from Ubuntu, I have started using a proper UK keyboard and have now found out how to make it have the correct keymapping. For full details go here: http://www.gyford.com/phil/writing/2005/11/20/using_a_british.php In [...]

If you regularly swap between a PC (Ubuntu for me) and a Mac, then this little tip might just save you a load of hassle. The biggest bug bear switching between the two systems is that the combinations [ctrl]+[c] etc are now [cmd]+[c] which is not on the same keyboard locaation and is generally a [...]

Perhaps it’s the 30″ monitor that is seducing me, or the cute way windows can pop open and closed. Maybe it’s the fact that as a Linux user I see a lot of things that I recognise thanks to OSX being a unix based OS. Now that I have my Ubuntu Jaunty laptop and the [...]