Archive for osx

Engraved books - Mac and Mole

Perhaps you’ve seen pictures of beautiful engravings on Macbooks. They are stunning:

You can even get high-tech with your low tech books:



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iPhonesque

iPhonesque is a really nice set of styles for the Growl alert system for OSX. It’s the only add-on display utility I have found useful, with the mac being so fancy pretty by default and all.

Mac Mini RAM upgrade

<sarcasm> Upgrade the RAM in you Mac Mini in just a few simple steps.
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MailTags 2.0 set up

Brett Porter describes his MailTags set up which looks very smart. Filing this under a to-do when I have some time to tweak my own set-up.

get yer growl on - iphone style

iPhone Popup Growl Style

DIY iBook server booklet

Ibook-G3-Server

DIY iBook server booklet:
This is brilliant. I was thinking about such an option for an mp3 media server.

iphone day

very well done:

Bandwagon : iTunes backup service

Looks interesting, plus they are giving away free accounts for bloggers.

iPhone

iPhone

For something you can only look at in a glass case, it’s really, really cool.

Monolingual

Monolingual is a pretty neat app for you OS X users who want to reclaim a bit of hard drive space. It goes through your system and removes localization files for languages you probably don’t speak. It allows you to check which languages you want to remove, in the event that you do need to make use of Armenian, or whatever your first, second or third language may be.

Plus, it’s free! Pretty sweet. (Stumbled upon via allforces)

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