Tag Archives: macosx

Create your own iPad

Posted on October 5, 2010 by Haridasi

I got a link from Espen about a guy that had taken his old, worn-out macbook and turned it into a tablet. Impressive!!! Tablet Mac Project

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Never worry about losing data again

Posted on July 18, 2010 by Haridasi

I have a lot of data – that’s where it started. Secondly, I use a lot of computers and operating systems (OS). I have a private macbook pro, a notebook with windows,  a work computer (usually with Linux), iphone and … Continue reading →

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Love at second sight

Posted on January 6, 2010 by Haridasi

For about a year now I have not bought myself any gadgets, and because of this I have been suffering from gadget withdrawal for some time now. The result have been that for christmas I bought Nintendo Wii and Wii … Continue reading →

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How to remove pdf borders in macosx

Posted on January 17, 2009 by Haridasi

Many pdf’s comes with big white borders. This becomes a problem when reading pdf’s on ebook readers since the borders takes up a lot of space on an already small and challenged reading area. Or when one wants to save … Continue reading →

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Christmas Freebie: MacHeist

Posted on December 25, 2008 by Haridasi

MacHeist gives away free software gifts for free on christmas day. Today it’s 1password, doseido, iConquer, SantaSnaps, Enigmo and Synergy. Run and download.

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How to decrypt encrypted Adobe pdf’s in MacOSX

Posted on August 31, 2008 by Haridasi

A sample encrypted pdf file can be downloaded from Adobe’s site: Sample NB. The encrypted file must have printing permissions. 1. Open the file with Preview One can verify that it is encrypted by going to Tools -> Inspector -> … Continue reading →

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Spyware on macosx

Posted on August 18, 2008 by Haridasi

It’s sad to say it, but I had my first incident of spyware… on nothing less than my macosx. I found out because I had these popups that came up when browsing in firefox: It always pointed to the same … Continue reading →

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Developer characters in MacOSX

Posted on August 13, 2008 by Haridasi

Frustration solved! Finally ! I have had my mac for about 10 months, but I still hadn’t figured out where to find those programming keys like curly braces, square brackets, straight vertical (pipe) and tilde to name a few on … Continue reading →

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How to make US ITunes store purchases for non-US people

Posted on August 6, 2008 by Haridasi

So, you want to buy items from ITunes’ US store, but you’re not anywhere around there, are you? First you need to create a new ITunes account. Find an american adress (for example an hotel or another “public” adress), and … Continue reading →

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