After hearing tales of RAID without the hassle on the Twit network, and the ever increasing need for large amounts of storage, I happily plumped down my credit card and took receipt of a shiny new Drobo S. I push in some drives, formatted and away I went in redundant storage happiness. Four happy months [...]

a new operating system, new requirements for encryption. so you have snow leopard and you still want your gpg goodness. it’s pretty easy – and you only need three bits of software. download these three things: macgpg gpg keychain gpgmail bundle –update– gpgmail bundle 10.6.4 compatible install macgpg – this is the backend framework for [...]

matthew asked: “I really like NNWInstaPost – two great tastes, how do i add a keyboard shortcut?” well there are a couple of ways. the one i like best is with an application called Spark. there is a nice write up on how to do this on Daniel Schneller’s blog the other method is via [...]

how irritating – osx insists that american spelling is best. we can prevail. this all came to light in pages (iwork) insisting that color was the correct spelling of colour. wrong, wrong, wrong. easy fix: system preferences international language edit list check the british english option click ok drag the british english right to the [...]

another day, another bit of software. finally tailDash has proper leopard support. plus the main feature requests i get for tailDash are more customisation features and they all tend to be different. i guess with this kind of tool everybody’s opinion is likely to be different so in this release, pretty much everything is configurable [...]