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Screen Capture on Mac
To capture the whole screen use:
Command + SHIFT + 3
To capture an area of the screen use:
Command + SHIFT + 4 (then drag and release the pointer to select the area)
Posted by Graham Blake on 24th July 2010 at 10:18
Moving from PC to Mac - Part 3: Apple Mighty Mouse
At the time of purchasing the Macbook Pro I also bought an Apple Mighty Mouse from the Apple Store. The next day I finally looked at the box suspecting that I'd picked up the wired variety rather than the cordless type. My suspicions were correct.
"Oh well, nevermind", I thought, not intending to return it to the store but to keep it. I removed it from the box and... "Mmm, that's quite a short cable", I thought to myself. I proceded to connect the cable to the left-hand side of the Macbook, moved the mouse to the right-hand side of...
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Posted by Graham Blake on 23rd March 2010 at 14:06
Moving from PC to Mac - Part 2: Initial Findings
I wrote this post after I'd had the Mac for only 1 or 2 days...
Looking at the screen, or more precisely where the screen meets the aluminium screen casing, and wondering if there's a miniscule gap between the rubber screen surround and previously mentioned screen casing. I guess I paid a fair chunk of money for this machine and I'm expecting perfection - silly, anal retentive, old me!
During the initial boot I saw one obvious dead pixel, I could only see the one though and haven't noticed it since.
Discovered that switching on one's new Macbook and, within...
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Posted by Graham Blake on 12th March 2010 at 13:42
Showing Hidden Files on Mac
Go to the Terminal and type:
defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE
killall Finder
Job done.
Posted by Graham Blake on 7th March 2010 at 09:05
Moving from PC to Mac - Part 1: Making the Move
For some time now I've been toying with the idea of purchasing an Apple Mac. How long? Perhaps some months, perhaps a little longer than a year now. Why? Not sure. OK, when I say I'm not sure why that seems a little stupid of me. What I mean is that I've probably now forgotten exactly why I had this desire in the first place. It was probably a mixture of desire to get away from the Windows platform and the lure of something different and shiny, that and the fact that lots of people involved in the web industry...
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Posted by Graham Blake on 28th February 2010 at 03:57
The Relentless March of Net Technology
When I initially decided to investigate this whole web development scene some years ago the options seemed to be, at the time, numerous. Learn PHP on the server-side, get a better understanding of HTML, learn how to use CSS, erm, and maybe learn some JavaScript. I think that was it. Nothing too challenging, nothing out of my reach. I recall that, at the time, the main consideration was, am I going to be a web designer and focus on design, HTML and CSS or a web developer and focus on server-side scripting and client-side development? I'm neatly avoiding the whole...
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Posted by Graham Blake on 10th February 2010 at 11:37
Xdebug
Ok, I'm know that I'm feeling a little unwell but this is ridiculous. I tried to get the Xdebug debugger working with Eclipse today, running under Windows 7. Started this morning, left it for most of the day; it wasn't working so thought I'd return to it.
The reason for it not working?
Firstly I'd placed the location and name of the php_xdebug.dll in the wrong place in my php.ini file. Secondly I'd mis-spelled the file location, but I did this about two or three times!
Finally got there.
Posted by Graham Blake on 5th February 2010 at 12:10
Importing Blender Data into Unity 3D
Just to see how it worked, I decided to try and save a simple scene in Blender (ok, really simple in fact, the default cube) and import it into my trial version of Unity 3D.
Unity reported a problem with the importing of .blend files, "Blender could not convert the .blend file to FBX file". I posted on the Unity forum and got some useful feedback but didn't get a final solution. Following some advice elsewhere on the same forum, I finally resolved this issue by uninstalling Blender 2.49a and deleting files from the C:\Documents and Settings\ Posted by Graham Blake on 3rd September 2009 at 11:04
When I was growing up I owned a Sinclair ZX Spectrum 48K. Because I was that sort of chap, it was my ambition to emulate the guy that wrote Jet Set Willy and make a small fortune writing computer games. I began to learn Z80 assembler and began to draw-up designs for games. My problem was that I enjoyed coming up with the ideas, and writing about them, more than I enjoyed writing assembler. My other problem, which is still with me to this day to some degree, was not being able to stick to one task. I always found... Posted by Graham Blake on 18th August 2009 at 13:09
I've recently been interested in being able to develop Flex applications in Linux; I'm using Ubuntu. The main obstacle was which text editor to use. I use Aptana Studio to develop Rails applications, such as this very web site, but I'm not sure how to configure Aptana Studio to perform syntax colouring for AS or MXML files. Well after a bit of Googling this afternoon I've discovered Komodo Edit which comes in flavours for Linux, Windows and Mac. It's also free and supports syntax colouring for ActionScript files and MXML files. Hooray! Was easy to install too. Posted by Graham Blake on 19th June 2009 at 11:47
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