Posts Tagged ‘apple’

Cleaning my Apple Mighty Mouse Ball's April 29th, 2009 by Sheldon Lendrum

I have a couple of Apple Mac’s and with each of them, I have a Mighty Mouse.
I have one I carry with my with my Mac Book Pro, this is getting quite old now, It was the first release of the Wireless model, I pre-ordered it as soon as they were announced and have [...]

Changing the RSS refresh rate in Apple Mail April 29th, 2009 by Sheldon Lendrum

I use Apple’s Mail App as my primary mail client on both my personal and work mac’s, and for both machines I have various RSS Feeds subscribed.
I use apple mail as an RSS Client for a couple of reasons,
1) I just like how it works
2) its not just one more application I have to have [...]

Force Eject a CD/DVD in Apple Leopard February 18th, 2009 by Sheldon Lendrum

Today I had to help a friend force eject a stuck DVD in his iBook, there are a couple of methods we tried and I thought that hey may be helpful for others.
I would recommend trying to eject your stuck CD/DVD in this order;
1) Hold the ‘Eject’ Key for up to 30 [...]

Safari's CSS Support for multiple backgrounds on the same Style February 16th, 2009 by Sheldon Lendrum

I was browsing just now and fond something pretty interesting, Safari supports multiple background image declarations for the same style tag.

.box {
 
background:
/* Upper-left */ url(./corners_01.png),
/* Upper-right */ url(./corners_02.png),
/* Lower-left */ url(./corners_03.png),
/* Lower-right */ url(./corners_04.png),
/* Icon */ url(./icon.png),
/* Gradient */ url(./gradient.png);
 
background-position:
/* Upper-left */ 0% 0%,
/* Upper-right */ 100% 0%,
/* Lower-left */ 0% 100%,
/* Lower-right */ 100% 100%,
/* Icon */ 0.6em 0.6em,
/* Gradient */ 0% 100%;
 
background-repeat:
/* Upper-left */ no-repeat,
/* Upper-right */ no-repeat,
/* Lower-left */ no-repeat,
/* Lower-right */ no-repeat,
/* Icon */ no-repeat,
/* Gradient */ repeat-x;
}

Detect iPhone / iTouch Orientation – Change In Your Code November 5th, 2008 by Sheldon Lendrum

I have been working on a template for an iPhone Library Application today, its pretty simple stuff, A search, Asynchonous paginated results with the full details on each result. It will be using FileMaker for its database, but currently I am searching a large PHP array for testing.
When displaying the full [...]

Creating Custom iphone ringtones in iTunes October 22nd, 2008 by Sheldon Lendrum

The other day i wrote about the great site Audiko in my post about iPhone ringtones, but today I read this article on

OSX Speech Commands August 3rd, 2008 by Sheldon Lendrum

This is a cool tip that will work on and OSX Computer.
You can get your mac to sing and swear and talk anything via a simple Shell Script.
You can even get my mac to talk… I will be able to hear what you type ( But you can’t )

Alex
Cellos

If you are [...]

Installing PHP5 and mySQL on Mac OSX Leopard July 26th, 2008 by Sheldon Lendrum

A step-by-step Guide to installing PHP, mySQL and getting them both running together on Apples OSX Leopard. This requires root access and a little Terminal usage.