Mac users (web designers and developers in particular) listen up, here’s an option to preview your web project with Internet Explorer within Mac OS itself without 3rd party OS applications like Parallels, VMWare, Bootcamp, etc. ies4osx is a Mac OS application that, upon installed allows you to open IE in Mac, and it supports 4 different version of IE at the moment:
Internet Explorer 5.0
Internet Explorer 5.5
Internet Explorer 6.0
Internet Explorer 7.0 Beta
Checklist
Here’s a quick checklist before you start installing Internet Explorer on Mac.
You have admin privileges.
If you are on Mac OSX Tiger, install X11 from original CD.
Download Darwin, open it up and drag it inside Application folder.
If you wonder what other alternatives you can tweet besides logging in to twitter.com, this entry gives you tonnes of options tweeting with browsers, desktop applications as well as mobile phone. Worth checking out.
Almost any windows user can tell you how bad their experiences with BSoD (Blue Screen of Death) is. Reason that causes it – plenty. Even if the message in the blue screen says “Press any key to continue”, but most of the time it will not work. Users end up pressing the reset button instead.
BSoD is so famous that even Mac GUI designers use that as a symbol for PC in Mac. In Mac (Leopard, in this case) when you connect to a PC, the icon that represents this external machine is a PC with BSoD on its monitor. Maybe it just look like one on a typically small icon view, but when you zoom the icon up, it’s definitely the same nightmare Windows users are seeing occasionally on their PC.
Funny thing is, why would Mac developers wanna do that :-)
Mac comes with tonnes of keyboard shortcuts, some odd/cool ones are not known by many so here are some keyboard shortcuts you can try on your friend’s Mac, or perhaps (more mischievously) do it to Macs in Apple authorized stores or any places that displays Macs. You’ll be surprised how many Mac users out there will just go blank and stare at their screens wondering what happened. Just don’t get caught or say you learn them from here :-) And remember, choose the 24″. Have fun.
Zoom In / Out
Okay, this is not the best of all but still it may trick some. Mac comes with screen zoom in/out function. The keyboard shortcut here is:
Zoom In
“Command” + ” Option” + ” +”
Zoom Out
” Command” + ” Option” + ” -”
If it does not work for you, it’s probably the zoom control is locked. Here’s how you trigger zoom control lock/unlock
Here’s a script for you Facebook addicts. Basically what is does is, it allows you to view a larger image from a thumbnail of anyone, friends or not. All you need to do is to hover the thumbnail image, and the larger photo will just pops up. Let’s go about installing it.
Installing Image Enlarger for Facebook
Here’s some requirements before you can make image enlarging works in Facebook. You need to be using Firefox browser, and have Greasemonkey (Firefox extension) installed, and follow these following steps:
I’m not sure if you’ve experienced this before but when Cely asked me to take a look at her computer, I’m totally surprised. The LCD’s color basically went haywire, or rather inverted. Black color becomes red, white becomes cyan, etc. On an intial search in Google attemmpting to find the reason and solution, I could’nt find any except a youtube video posted by another victim that had the exact same problem.
Similar victim
What causes this
We were not really sure about this, but suspected the laptop was overheated, or the wiring connecting the LCD might get a little bit dislocated when opening/closing the LCD lid.
Attempt to recover
I’ve tried restarting the Windows, re-update the graphic card drivers, reset screen resolutions but it all did not help. There aren’t much solution on the internet. Most of them suggest victims suffering from this to take it to computer shops to seek for assitance.
This is probably one of the smallest remote control car I’ve ever owned, or even seen. It’s simply exciting, if you have watched the famous Anime Initial D, what shown above is a Toyota AE86 remote car. This small remote car is a gift from Jim, brought all the way back from Taiwan. (If you know there anything similar in local, please let me know because I’d definitely want to get more)
This little remote car comes in 4 different bands, that means maximum of 4 players can race at the same time. It also has this "turbo mode" button that can push your car speed faster. The gap between the back of the car and the number plate enables you to insert a coin, or something flat and heavy enough to do a "willie" stand up and perform some stunts. Cool huh! More photos after jump.
iPhone by default supports chinese characters viewing but not the input. Here’s a plugin that allows you to input as chinese in iPhone – good news for those who wants to send short text messages in chinese characters.
Developed by Gary and IczFirz, this plugin allows both Chinese Traditional input as well as Chinese Simplified. Installation of the plugin comes in 2 easy way:
