Spam: Fighting Back!

Before you read on, this how-to post is specific to the Mac OS X mail client (Mail), but should be just as easy to set up in other mail clients that support custom mail filtering. You probably hate spam mails just as much as I do, so share with you what you can do to [...]

Quick Tip: Cleaning up poorly placed log files

So, there’s this service we have in Denmark called NemID (English translated: EasyID), and for some reason, probably of lack of knowledge about how the Mac platform’s log files are organized, they’ve decided to put a log file in our user directory – URH! wrong place. This has been bothering me quite a bit, and [...]

Quick Tip: Searching App Store

By sheer accident, I discovered the Mac App Store supports searching based on the file format you are looking to work with — Mac OS X will even ask you if you want to search the store for an application capable of reading a file, should it not have one installed already. Search termsI’m not [...]

Music Tip: Crisp Stereo Effect

Well, it’s about time I did a post on music production, I have been wanting to do this for quite a while. In this quick tip, I will show you how to wire up a crisp stereo effect, which works great as both send and insert. I recommend having this effect hooked up to the [...]

Count in Binary

I felt like doing a quick post on something this evening, and so tonight I’ll be teaching you how to count in binary. Regardless of whether or not you are a programmer, being able to count in binary is quite fun. What is Binary?Binary refers to a system consisting of two components, and in the [...]

Quick Tip: iPhone Ringtones

I bet you have been wanting to put your own custom ringtones on your iPhone, free of charge, for quite a while — I have a solution for you.

Dev Tip: Nibless Development

I’ve never really used the Interface Builder all that much when developing, and frankly I don’t like the “magic” it does for me. I prefer being able to visualize what my application does in the code by avoiding the NIB altogether — and I’m going to show you how I go about doing this.

Quick Tip: Text Selection in Mac OS X

I found out about this text selection technique by accident, but found it to be very useful.