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  • How to use command line debugger fdb to debug Flex / Flash on Mac OS X

    Debugging Flash / Adobe Flex 2 / ActionScript 3 code using fdb on Mac or Windows is not exactly a straightforward affair. The following are instructions on how to get fdb running for debugging flash files and how to debug flex through the command line tools. Preamble: Verify that you have a debug capable version…

  • Play AVI DivX codec Movies on Quicktime in Mac OS X Leopard

    Quicktime under Mac OS X Leopard can’t play movie or video files saved in .avi format encoded with DivX format without a little help. Also if you get no sound from avi files on your Mac, the following avi audio codec will solve that problem for you. Here’s what you need to make Quicktime on…

  • Fix Blue Tint Wake from Screensaver Mac / Macbook

    Ever wake your Mac from screensaver and find a bizarre blue tint or blueish tint to the display screen? The blue tinge can be fixed or removed by opening up Display Preferences (from System Preferences Panel, Second Row [Hardware] => Displays). Simply opening the Displays preference window reverts the color profile to the last good…

  • How to use Mac OS X Leopard Spaces Efficiently

    Mac Spaces is a great feature that allows you to virtually have dual, triple, quadruple monitors (or more) on your Mac. Mac Spaces works by creating desktops where you can place program windows, allowing you to organize your running programs and open windows into logical “groups” or “themes”. An easy way to imagine how Spaces…

  • No Space Left on Device Error

    In a follow up to my post about how to dual boot Tiger and Leopard on your Mac, this post is about removing large (unnecessary) files from your hard disk and recovering disk space on your hard drive before attempting to repartition Macintosh drives and dual booting. Many folks have been noticing that repartitioning disks…

  • Use Camino Browser to Block Ads

    Hate animated Flash ads while browsing? Get Camino. Go to Preferences, Web Features, Block Flash Animations and voilà, no more Flash based animated ads. Without Flash Ads With Flash Ads I’m not sure about you, but I like my Jolie with as little extraneous distractions as possible. I’ve mentioned the block flash ads feature with…

  • Camino – Fastest & Best Browser on Mac OS X Leopard

    Ok, it’s a bit early for me to be describing Camino as the Fastest and Best Browser on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, but at the same time I can’t help but be overjoyed at the prospect of having full keyboard navigation functionality (i.e. searching, finding, clicking/navigating/opening a link purely through the keyboard) with the…

  • Vancouver – Yaletown time lapse video

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  • Safari Fastest Browser on Mac

    So something that came as a bit of a surprise to me was that on certain sites, Safari is 4-5x faster than Firefox on page rendering.  Recently I’ve been doing lots of work on SalesForce.com and I was thinking: “Man, their site is hella slow”.  After talking with a friend in Paris accessing the same site, but…

  • Load Bookmarks with Quicksilver Mac Application Loader

    Quicksilver from Blacktree Software is a free Mac OS X program loader / launcher / starter. By launcher, I mean, it’s a way to start or run a program on your computer without using the mouse or trackpad. By setting up your favorites within Firefox or Safari or Camino in a certain way, you can…

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