I just bought the Mac Heist bundle. 7 awesome Mac apps worth $260+ for just $19.95 and got 3 great bonus apps free! http://bit.ly/heist-it
I just bought the Mac Heist bundle. 7 awesome Mac apps worth $260+ for just $19.95 and got 3 grea…
March 9th, 2010I have to wait another whole month for the iPad! :'( It's coming to UK in late April.
March 5th, 2010anyone going to America for Easter?!
London Zoo
February 24th, 2010
Caroline and I visited London Zoo. Read the rest of this entry »
Making vi more colourful on the mac
February 19th, 2010
I don’t know why, but vi on the mac doesn’t highlight syntax by default. Searching Google was particularly hard to find the answer, so I’m adding it here (particularly for when I forget how I did it.)
An aside: apparently vi actually just redirects to vim in Snow Leopard.
This site has lots of useful configuration options to consider to make vim more useful. Read the rest of this entry »
@Philip Brien Hi Phil – is it true that we’re going to be Metaswitch cousins?
February 16th, 2010@Philip Brien Hi Phil – is it true that we're going to be Metaswitch cousins?
The Epic Epping Forest
February 14th, 2010
Paul
February 11th, 2010
Screen sharing over the internet, through SSH
February 6th, 2010I’ve been using SSH to play with my home Mac for a while, but now figured out how to get VNC working through the VNC access.
For clarity, the home Mac is called Coruscant.
I had to set up screen sharing on Coruscant locally. I tried to enable it throught the command line SSH access, but didn’t get very far. Locally, you use the Sharing Preference pane. (I think) It’s important to enable the VNC password for non-mac systems to be able to connect.
Now, I left home and went to visit family. The first step to connect is to open a tunnel from a port on the local machine, through SSH to port 5900 on Coruscant.
The following command does it.
ssh -C -L 59001:127.0.0.1:5900 user@coruscant external ip
-C enable compression, which can help performance over the slow Internet.
-L 59001:127.0.0.1:5900 configures the tunnel – 59001:127.0.0.1 is the local port and address to connect with. 5900 is the port on Coruscant to connect with.
user@coruscant external ip is the normal SSH connect to use. I have dyndns set up so I use that address to resolve to the external IP address of Coruscant.
Next, just go to vnc://127.0.0.1:59001 in safari, and screen sharing opens and connects (after prompting for authentication)
It’s pretty much the same to connect from a non-mac system (at least the numbers are)
Links
Yey! Merlin Mann is back as regular on macbreak weekly :D and they’ve gone back to the good slogan.
February 4th, 2010Yey! Merlin Mann is back as regular on macbreak weekly 😀 and they've gone back to the good slogan.
The Rule of Thirds
January 10th, 2010
I got a book about taking photos. It was cheap, but turns out that when it was written, any camera worth using was still analogue or wet. It talks a lot about chemicals and filters and film. However – I’m sure most of the concepts are still the same with digital photography, so I’m looking forward to developing some skills.
The first thing I’ve played with is the rule of thirds. Apparently you shouldn’t normally put your subject in the middle of the photo. Who knew?! I had a go at cropping photos taken at Kew Gardens a couple of weeks ago using the rule of thirds. Has it made the photos more vivid and captivating? Read the rest of this entry »
