Found out about some handy apps over the last week while trying to do something else. Thought I’d share it, which is handily what the first app is about.
Simplify Media
For ages I’ve been trying to sort out a decent way of being able to access stuff on my media-server from other Macs/PCs in a [...]

read more from this topic.....

If you’ve gone out and bought a snazzy new Saumsung telly, and have been fighting over programming your Pronto remote with the discrete code for HDMI2 input (and who hasn’t, er), after too much searching I finally stumbled apon this one, which works. Hooray. Well, I’m happy.
0000 006C 0022 0000 00AD 00AD 0015 0041 0015 [...]

read more from this topic.....

I did this ages ago in Tiger, and forgot how I did it, so here’s a note to myself in case I forget again.
Assuming network drives are SMB connections, create the following script in Script Editor, covering each of the shares you need to connect to:
mount volume “smb://username:password@ip address/sharename”
Compile it somewhere as a filename, say [...]

read more from this topic.....

BT Vision box finally turned up and I’m shocked that its actually quite good. Only issue initially was with the arrival of the remote control (being a remote facist I’m entirely happy with 1 remote to rule them all), but after a bit of digging I found the remote codes to bundle it into the [...]

read more from this topic.....