OSX: Inkscape not working with multiple monitors

I recently noticed that under OSX Inkscape behaves strangely with multiple monitors. I thought I'd broken the installation as when launching Inkscape it opened and then the window immediately disappears. Fortunately there's a bug that's been filed here: XQuartz on OS X 10.9 and later: limited support for multi-monitor…

OSX: Toggle hidden files in Finder

Here's a little shell script I knocked up for toggling hidden files in finder. Running from the Finder toolbar To have this to hand from within finder you can create an application in Automater. Just select run shell script and paste the contents of this script. Save it as an…

OSX: No Connected Camera

This is really just a note to self. But when you're trying to use an app that uses your built-in video camera on osx, sometimes you see the message "No Connected camera". I just had that and rather than reboot I did a bit of googling and came…

Creating a Mavericks OSX VM on an OSX Host

In case you want to try out some things on OSX without doing it for real then being able to create a VM of OSX can be appealing. Apple allow you to do this if you're runnning Apple hardware. The biggest challenge is finding a way to access the installer.…

From OSX to Ubuntu

I've recently switched to using Ubuntu full-time as my primary operating system having previously used Macs for the last 4+ years. Moving over to ubuntu has been easy enough, I bought a lenovo R61 which has extremely good compatibility with Ubuntu out of the box. I've had very few issues…

Mac OSX: Visor Development on Github

I've been using Visor (the drop-down Quake style terminal) for a little while and recently discovered the development of the project has moved to github from it's original home at blacktree. The latest versions of the app fix a lot of the annoying niggles with the last blacktree versions. Well…