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Apple Subtly Change Keyboard Experience in OS X Lion

Drew — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 09:53:56 +0000

We’ve all been there, you have the Mac keyboard in front of you and suddenly you hear the beep-beep-beep as it tries to enter a thousand Xs into the Finder as you accidentally press the key. Well not in OS X Lion. Go on try it. Press and hold a key. No auto repeat.

However, [...]

Secure iPad/iPhone Usage on Insecure WiFi

Drew — Sun, 30 Jan 2011 11:24:51 +0000

When I opted for an iPad I chose the 3G version so that I could use it when away from WiFi but as useful as this is it is still bound by caps on usage and can be variable in coverage. The other day I was at an event and had these issues so checked [...]

Using OpenID from Your Own Domain

Drew — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 20:12:21 +0000

I’ve recently added OpenID support to my WordPress installations via a plugin. This allows anyone with an OpenID to log in and set up a profile using an existing provider such as Google,Yahoo etc rather than having to remember yet another username/password combination.

However the one problem I have had using OpenID is that [...]

Map A SkyDrive Folder In Windows via Office 2010

Drew — Tue, 18 May 2010 20:28:15 +0000

DISCLAIMER: What I’m about to describe is tortuous and potentially useless but I use it and I even give an easier alternative so there .

Google tend to get most of the buzz (no pun intended) around the “Cloud” and Microsoft tend to be seen as a company who are being dragged kicking and [...]

Windows 7 “God Mode”

Drew — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 21:57:03 +0000

I’m a big fan of Windows 7, it has finally moved me from XP on my work machines. However I still haven’t quite got the locations for the settings stuck in the old memory and find myself hunting for them every now and then. I was going to blog about a piece of software called [...]

Installing Windows 7 on a Netbook Using USB

Drew — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 20:12:57 +0000

I’ve recently acquired a Netbook (Asus EeePC 1005HA to be precise) and in common with many such devices it came preloaded with XP. Now up until 6 months ago I’d probably have left it at that but having used Windows 7 for those last months I really didn’t want to go back. So I decided [...]

OS X Screen Grab Shortcut Reminder

Drew — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 14:13:59 +0000

When putting together the earlier post I needed to grab some shots of the process and as always I’d forgotton the OS X screen grab shortcut keys so I thought I’d stick them down here.

Command-Shift-3 will capture the whole screen and save it Command-Shift-4 perhaps more usefully will present crosshairs to allow the capture [...]

Setting Up Snow Leopard VPN from PCF File

Drew — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 11:54:48 +0000

Having recently upgraded to Snow Leopard one of the things that stopped working was my Cisco VPN client for access to my work network. From reading around it seems a reinstall should solve this but rather than go down that route I decided to look to the built in VPN features instead.

The starting point [...]