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Full-screen browser for OSX - PlainView

Submitted by Damien on Sat, 02/07/2009 - 7:20pm

Building my presentation for the FL Drupal Camp I was stuck - neither Firefox nor Safari would let me do a full-screen browser display so the audience was going to be stuck seeing my title bar, browser window border, tool bar, etc - not terribly good for a presentation. A bit of searching later I discovered the perfect solution - PlainView.

Moving your TimeMachine

Submitted by Damien on Wed, 01/21/2009 - 5:47am

It's bound to happen to everyone, they outgrow their TimeMachine and want a new one, a bigger one, one that will allow them to go further into the past... I'm talking about OSX's built-in backup system here, I don't know what you were thinking..

Dupe Windows drive images in VirtualBox

Submitted by Damien on Sat, 10/25/2008 - 11:40pm

VirtualBox is a pretty good virtual machine system from Sun Microsystems that has several key benefits:

It's free, whereas most others are commercial and can cost a chunk of change,
It's multiplatform, so a company can standardize on it across all of their supported systems.

It seems to be pretty capable in regards to running client operating systems - it has a menu which lets it automatically configure itself for a wide variety of Windows releases, UNIX distributions, etc.

The only minor problem I've found is in regards to how it handles disk images

Hot to fix a suicidal Cisco VPN client on OSX

Submitted by Damien on Wed, 07/09/2008 - 1:21am

After starting to use the Cisco VPN client to do remote work on my McBook, I noticed that it would give an oh-so-useful "Error 51: Unable to communicate with the VPN subsystem" error fairly often, like this:

Trying out ZigVersion

Submitted by Damien on Mon, 02/25/2008 - 8:36pm

For the past two years I've been using SmartSVN as my graphical subversion tool of choice on OSX, mainly because it seemed more feature rich and stable than the others.

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