Back in my University days having a Mac was not always fun in a Windows dominated campus. I always had to ensure that my disc’s were able to be read in a Windows machine, even though they were burned on a Mac. After looking over some of my files I decided to share with the world some of the code snippets I found along the way. This posts concerns creating cross plaform Flash CD-Roms, inparticular opening folders from projectors. Auto Run Due to a security vulnerability in OS X 8 (i think!) the auto run feature was disabled on a Mac, however there was an option to open the root folder by default...

Just to prove that I don’t just rave about Mac’s and slag off Windows, this post is about Apple’s latest treat – The MacBook Air. Apple is back at doing what it does best. Marketing a product that isn’t that great, so well that you feel you can’t live without it (iPhone, iPod Touch). I’ve decided to gloss over the good points in favour of the bad. After purchasing a MBP last year, I was jealous to hear that a newer and sexier model was out. The jealousy soon turned into glee as I read the specs. However Apple may like to jazz it up, the MBA (MacBook Air)...

Want to use your new MacBook in clamshell mode, but don’t have an external keyboard and mouse?I figured this out last night. Don’t know if this is a known thing or not, but I was pretty psyched about it. If you want to use an external monitor with your MacBook in “clamshell” mode, but don’t have the peripherals, here’s what to do: 1. With your MacBook on and running, plug in your external monitor and turn it on (if the monitor isn’t already on). 2. Depending on the way you have your display prefs set, you’ll either be in mirror mode or extended desktop...

Finally I have found an app that will Silence your Mac OS X start-up sound (Direct Download) Although the Mac is almost perfect, Apple decided to not include an option to turn of that horrible start up sound. This app sits in your system preferences and works a treat. This is ideal if you want to do a little ‘late night surfing’ without waking anybody up. I am using this on an Intel Mac running 10.4.10 and have found no probs yet. The app is free and developed by Arcana Research in Japan. At the moment the Intel version is a beta, but I have found no problems using it. To visit their...