Archive for the ‘Mac OS X’ Category

LittleIpsum

LittleIpsum by Dustin Senos is a handy little tool for anyone doing design or programming work who’s constantly in need of some lorem ipsum to pad out visuals. I usually use lipsum.com which has a decent background on Lorem Ipsum as well as a configurable generator. LittleIpsum on the other hand is a nifty little [...]

Using On The Job 3 with Dropbox

I recently grabbed myself an 11″ Macbook Air as I was in dire need of a laptop to use when away from home. The main attraction that I’d be able to work on any freelance projects when I have downtime regardless of where I am. I use a brilliant piece of software called On The [...]

Sequel Pro: Manage MySQL Databases under Mac OS X

I do a lot of web development; it’s my full time job, my hobby and a means to potentially earn some money on the side. I need a set of good tools in order to make aspects of the work easier or I’d spend my entire life at odds with what I do. A good [...]

Batch renaming files in Mac OS X

The Finder is brilliant. It does exactly what it says on the tin. You can zoom around your filesystem and find things with relative ease; copy, cut, paste and move files. It does it all, but it lacks any batch renaming to help any of us who have the laborious task of renaming dozens, or [...]

Adding non-Apple format movies to iTunes

I’ve been having a bit of trouble adding some movies to my iTunes library this evening – in that I’d have to convert a movie to a .mov file in order to import it at all. A few google searches away and I’d found the answer to all my problems. If you have the Apple [...]