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Thursday, 5 March 2009

Public beta of Live 8

A public beta of Ableton Live 8 is now available for download...

A public beta of Live 8 is now available. If you own a full version of Live (versions 1 - 7) and would like to test Live 8, you can download the current beta version at http://www.ableton.com/nl211-beta

Great way of syncing files across Macs & PCs, Linux

Dropbox I've been using this service for about six months it's an excellent sync and back up solution - stores your files encrypted on Amazon's S3 servers. Dropbox works across Macs, Windows and Linux. Dropbox has had rave reviews, I've not had a single glitch with it syncing about 1.3gb of files across two macs.

Dropbox creates a folder on your PC and can be used to

sync files across several machines
access your files via the website
storage for back up files
share large files to other people
set up shared access for several people to a folder or files
host image galleries
compatible with Truecrypt containers etc.
all files remain on your PC/s as well of course
it actually works, unlike many of these things

Also dropbox has a decent versioning system so if you change or delete a file you can look back at previous saves and restore previous versions. The developers are helpful and very active in releasing new versions, check the forum for the latest experimental builds of Dropbox.

2gb storage is free.
If you register using my personal link, below, I get more free space and so do you (above the usual 2gb)
https://www.getdropbox.com/referrals/NTI2MzA5ODk

Move the tab bar on Safari 4 and other hidden preferences

Safari Buddy v1.0 makes it simple to change often requested hidden preferences.

A Mac OS X Utility that enables the ability to change several hidden preferences in the Safari 4 Public Beta web browser, such as: moving the Tab Bar, reverting the Progress Style indicator, disabling Google Suggest and Top Sites and more.

I think the tabs on top approach is intended to show the tabs open across multiple open Safari 4 windows without you having to click on the underneath windw, or they're simply copying Google's Chrome.

Freeware from:
http://www.swoon.net/site/software.html

Terminal method to directly set preference:

To quickly change the tabs to the old Safari 3 position enter the following into terminal:

defaults write com.apple.Safari DebugSafari4TabBarIsOnTop -bool NO

To change tabs back to the top, enter again but with -bool YES at the end.

Friday, 27 February 2009

Fruits Manuva: Commune Gig Porthcawl...

Fair Trade Bananas - At the Commune 2009

The Commune gig on Sat 7th March at the Pavilion Porthcawl will also be involved in the Fairtrade bananas promotion which will be taking place that weekend... expect banana related mayhem.

Tickets for the gig are available at the main Pavilion box office and at Sussed on John St Porthcawl, opposite the Fulgoni’s cafe.

Known Safari 4 bugs on Mac

Breaks Wordpress add link function on blogs
Hotmail doesn't work fully
GMail logged in on http:// rather than https:// doesn't work
Resorts the currency convertor widget on Dashboard so that the lists are out of sync and therefore creates incorrect conversions.
Breaks Mail when Growlmail is installed.

Update: the full release of v4 in June fixed many of these issues.

Safari 4 Mac breaks currency converter widget

Resorts the panels so they mismatch currencies. Clever.

http://tinyurl.com/d5b9z4

Thursday, 26 February 2009

How to manually remove GrowlMail plugin if safari 4 causes Mail to Crash

Quit Mail
Delete the GrowlMail plugin stored in your Library, here ~/Library/Mail/Bundles
Logout and log back in again.

Thursday, 12 February 2009

Sync Safari and Firefox bookmarks

http://www.foxmarks.com/

Foxmarks (free) is a plugin for both Firefox and Safari which will keep your bookmarks in sync between these browsers across multiple computers. Also supports something called Internet Explorer. You can also access your bookmarks on their website when away from your computer. Started by the chap who created Lotus 1-2-3, Mitch Kapor, who was heavily involved in the early stages of Firefox.