From MacOSXHints… At my office, I needed to find a way to turn of the wireless network when someone plugged in their network cable. I also did not want them to be able to turn the wireless network back on until the network cable was unplugged. I came up with the fallowing solution. I created […]
There\’s plenty of talk here about Home Automation, but what if you want to control your home automation via your home theatre? Â Here is an article from Automated Home, that discusses integrating the Plex Home Theatre plugin with Indigo for access to your home automation while sitting on your couch / loveseat / etc… Automated […]
Yeah! Microsoft is selling cars? I got this one via email, and I\’ve seen variants of it elsewhere: i thought office was coming out this year, why is the name of it office 2011? Our naming is like that of cars: if it comes out in the first half of the year, it gets that […]
Right from the horses mouth…: Steam on the Mac will behave just like Steam for Windows, but through Steam Play will add cross-platform ownership. That means if you own Left 4 Dead 2 for Windows, then you already own it for the Mac. There\’s no need to buy it twice! Unless you want to buy […]
From Engagdet… Apple\’s doing the Oscars up right tonight — not only was Steve Jobs making friends on the red carpet, but the company ran the first iPad ad just now during the broadcast. It\’s pretty much what you\’d expect out of an Apple ad, but, you know, more magical. Get ready for a blitz […]
Since installing Mac OS X 10.6, whenever I empty the trash, it takes about 50x as long as it used to under 10.5. I just emptied about 100 files (totaling 50 megs / all local files), and it was about 20 minutes. It feels like its doing a secure delete, but I\’m just using the […]
One of the discussions that arise anytime we bring up a new graphics card from ATI or NVIDIA is about which company has the better drivers. Well, this should help sway the argument a little bit. It would seem StarCraft II Beta players were among the first to notice low frame rates while using the […]
This is cool.  Now if I just can remember that this alias is available…  I wonder why no one else thought about this…. Tired of having no choice but to add aliases for localhost to /etc/hosts every time you work on a site that uses subdomains? Me too. That’s why I grabbed smackaho.st and made […]