Category: advanced
How to match the colours on your monitor to your printer.
If you have ever designed a colour document on your computer and then printed it out on your inkjet or laser printer you may have noticed that the colours come out slightly different.
How to make an OS X Lion USB thumb drive
Here are three different ways to put Lion on a USB thumb drive.
How to use Amazon Cloudfront to speed up your wordpress site.
How to make your wordpress site real fast using Amazon Cloudfront.
How to make your printer run cheaply
This hint is not strictly Macintosh, but it’s so good I have to write it up. Did you know you can get what they call a Continuous inking system (CIS) for most big name inkjet printers?
How to write your own mobile phone drivers for OSX
I posted some drivers for the Samsung D900 mobile phone.
How to fix a loose hinge on an Aluminium Powerbook
If you’ve got an Aluminium Powerbook, (either the last of the G4 models or the new intel mac pro models) they are a great machine (the 15 inch is my favourite) but after a few years the hinge can get loose.
How to get started programming on a Mac
Intro to python programming on the mac.
How to get the Windows Vista Fonts for free on your Macintosh
If you have a friend with a PC chances are they are sending you documents that use fonts such as – Cambria, Calibri, Consolas, Constantia, Corbel and Candara. Here is how to install them on your Macintosh for free.
How to find the fastest DNS
Open DNS and google offer a free DNS service, but how do you know if it’s any faster that the one you have?
How to do a live webcast
Webcasting is videoing a live event and streaming it on the web for others to watch. Here’s how to do a webcast from you mac.
How to publish your own wordpress site (Advanced)
Wordpress is a great platform to host a blog or website from and it’s very easy to set up…
How to reset the OS X Installer
In Snow Leopard if you try to install a program while another is installing you get an error message saying “Waiting for other installations to complete.” But what do you do if the message stays there after the program has finished installing?
How to share a printer from OS X to Windows XP
To lodge my e-tax I have to run windows XP on my mac but needed to print it via a printer shared from my mac. I assume this will work sharing from any OS X mac to any Windows XP.
How do I speed up my webpage?
Safari can tell you how many files your webpage needs to load, and how big they are. Here’s how.
How to fix a broken G4 iBook logic board problem
There is a problem with the logic board in the Macintosh G4 ibooks. It can appear after a year or more in some machines and the symptom is that after being on for a few minutes, the screen goes black (it looks blank, but the light has gone off) , the fan turns on, and…
G4 logic board fault – model numbers of affected iBooks
This is the results of a survey I conducted over a year to see what different models of the G4 ibook are affected by the logicboard fault.
Search problems in Mail application
I’ve been having a problem with mail – I can’t do a search on ‘entire message’. It is greyed out.