Tag Archives: macosx

Jump to tabs in Safari

Posted on August 19, 2012 by Andrew

One of the major annoyances of Safari over Chrome and Firefox is that you can’t quickly jump to a specific tab in the browser. For example, in both Chrome and Firefox you can hold down Command-1 to jump to tab … Continue reading →

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Installing Windows on a Macbook Pro without a Superdrive

Posted on November 7, 2011 by Andrew

So you want to install Windows on your Macbook Pro? It’s easy, as long as you haven’t replaced your internal SuperDrive with an SSD upgrade. The Apple Boot Camp Assistant doesn’t let you create a bootable USB if you’re on … Continue reading →

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PostgreSQL on Lion with Homebrew

Posted on October 27, 2011 by Andrew

There are several ways you can get PostgreSQL up and running on Mac OS X Lion (see for example OS X Lion #2: PostgreSQL as default database, PostgreSQL 8.4 on Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion), How to install PostgreSQL on … Continue reading →

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MySQL on Lion with Homebrew

Posted on October 26, 2011 by Andrew

This was non-obvious to me, so I’m documenting it here. There are several ways you can get MySQL up and running on Mac OS X Lion (see for example Rob Allen’s Setting up PHP & MySQL on OS X 10.7 … Continue reading →

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Developing with Qt

Posted on April 4, 2011 by Andrew

Inspired by the ‘You Win, RIM!‘ post, I decided to shoot some fish in a barrel and look at the situation with Qt. The Qt SDK 1.1 beta was released on 1st March so it’s time to try it out. … Continue reading →

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EeeMac

Posted on January 13, 2009 by Andrew

So, back in November I picked up the Asus EeePC 901 (901 specs), in the interests of research and geek fun. I installed Ubuntu Netbook remix on it, then plain Ubuntu, but it mostly languished on the shelf. I found … Continue reading →

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GMail flakey

Posted on December 17, 2008 by Andrew

I’ve been having some difficulty reaching google.com and gmail over the last week or so, typically with the sites timing out between 9-10am, generally being sluggish. Other websites work just fine, so I’ve had to for example use Yahoo! search … Continue reading →

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iPhone update

Posted on July 27, 2008 by Andrew

So, it’s been a week of living with the iPhone, how’s it going? Mostly, pretty good. I’m still in awe of the fact that a mobile phone has some basic usability added to it, and that to do anything I … Continue reading →

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Colouring code comprehension

Posted on February 23, 2008 by Andrew

I’m working on some particularly dense javascript, and it has really brought home to me the difference between a good text editor and a great text editor. Eclipse is generally pretty good as an all-round IDE, but when you need … Continue reading →

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The iTunes disk space tax

Posted on February 17, 2008 by Andrew

If you happen to use iTunes and are, like me, foolish enough to trust it to manage all your music for you, it might be worth doing a health check and a bit of spring cleaning. I’ve been using iTunes … Continue reading →

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