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Air Sharing between iPhone and Mac

Published by Bruce on December 31, 2009 in Mac. 4 responses

Air Sharing is a fab app for iPhone that lets you mount a file store on the device to the desktop as a wireless share. You can browse your files using any decent web browser, and even upload files to the phone—albeit one file at a time. This limitation can be overcome by mounting the iPhone as a network drive (on Mac from the Finder Go > Connect to Server... and enter the server address). Rather than have to visit this menu each time, wouldn't it be nice if there were a one-click way to mount iPhone? There's a app for that.
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An OS X player for More FM Wellington

Published by Bruce on April 4, 2009 in Mac. 0 responses

Good radio stations can be hard to come by. My personal preference is for a mix of older and contemporary tracks, with a healthy dose of variety but nothing too far outside mainstream. One such radio station is Wellington's More FM, to which you can listen live using your web browser. I'm not keen on Internet radio delivered via a browser window because I usually end up closing the tab/ window by mistake! This Saturday morning project produced an OS X app to keep in the Dock for when the urge to listen to More FM strikes; it opens a network stream and commences automatic playback, using either of the VLC or QuickTime players.
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Live BBC weather using GeekTool

Published by Bruce on February 24, 2009 in Mac. 9 responses

GeekTool is great fun and seems an ideal means of occupying the mind while avoiding something else you should be doing. This Preference Pane for OS X basically lets you create a "live" desktop, auto-updating with data extracted using shell scripts (which can themselves call AppleScripts), image overlays, or log and other text files. I found many inspiring examples around the web to appropriate for my own desktop (see here; apologies for failing to note sources)—but one thing I had to work out by trial-and-error was bringing BBC Weather into the mix.
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The current time in NZ is...

Published by Bruce on March 16, 2005 in New Zealand. 0 responses

... something that any New Zealander abroad is bound to ask, particularly if they don't plan on disturbing friends or family at an ungodly hour. If you spend a lot of time online (not that I'd know what that's like) their are several ways you can access NZ time without installing shareware or blowing £300 on World Time watch. Here are just a few—care to add to the list?
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Where has all my iDisk space gone?

Published by Bruce on December 13, 2004 in Mac. 0 responses

So you've cleared out the folders on your iDisk—Sites, Pictures, Movies, etc.—yet according to the .Mac System Preferences pane you've still got megabytes of iDisk space occupied. What's going on?
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Automatic notification of uploads to an iDisk

Published by Bruce on December 21, 2003 in Mac. 0 responses

Allow Internet users to upload files to a password-protected folder on your iDisk, and set up automatic notification so that you are aware that a new file has been added...
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