Macintosh

PDF, Panther & Prepress

One of the benefits of using OS X is the fact that PDF technology underlies the whole of the Mac OS X graphic system.

Speed up your browsing

Apart from commercial retouching work, which is done on a G5, most of my work is done on a PowerBook. Often I'll need to browse the web or download my email from remote locations where I only have a modem or GPRS/mobile access.

Terminal - the Find command

The unix "find" command is worth getting to know. Fire up the terminal and give it a try.

PowerBook Trackpad Repair

The trackpad button on my PowerBook has become unusable because of the pressure that you need to exert to get it to register a click. I decided to take it apart to see what the problem was...

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ZIP Folder Action

A folder action script to automatically ZIP files and folders

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