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Manipulate and Manage PDF files using Preview – Mac

By Sharninder | Published: December 10, 2009
The PDF file format has always been an integral part of the Mac OS X user interface because of the fact that the underlying technology behind the graphical interface, Quartz, is based on PDF. That is why, while other operating systems needed third party tools to enable things like printing a file to a PDF printer, [...]
Posted in Mac OS X | Also tagged pdf, Preview | Leave a comment

Record a Screencast on Mac OS X using QuickTime X

By Sharninder | Published: December 7, 2009
A lot of the top bloggers have been using video as a medium to illustrate their posts for a long time now. Some of them use proprietary software to make screencasts and some of them just use digital cameras to shoot videos. With Mac OS X latest incarnation, 10.6 Snow Leopard, however Apple has given everyone [...]
Posted in Mac OS X | Also tagged QuickTime, record video, Screencast, youtube | Leave a comment

Gruml brings Google Reader to the Desktop [Mac]

By Sharninder | Published: November 11, 2009
RSS has changed the way content is consumed on the web. Almost every website worth it’s salt, and all blogs, including Geeky Ninja, use an RSS feed to distribute their content to the readers. Using an RSS reader Google Reader is arguably the best and the most famous RSS reader around. The only problem is that [...]
Posted in Mac OS X | Also tagged desktop application, google reader, Sync | 1 Comment

How To connect to a Cisco VPN using Mac OS X 10.6

By Sharninder | Published: October 8, 2009
Cisco’s VPN solution are quite popular in the enterprise market and a lot of companies use them to provide their employees access to the company’s networks and resources when the employees are not onsite. Most of these companies use the default Cisco client which Cisco supplies with a couple of modifications to suit their particular needs. [...]
Posted in Mac OS X | Also tagged cisco, snow leopard, VPN | 11 Comments

How to read HFS+ volumes on Windows

By Sharninder | Published: September 21, 2009
I’ve been using an OS X Leopard (That’s 10.5) machine at work since the last few days for a project that I’m working on. I’ve been a Unix user for a long time so I’m pretty comfortable with the Unix side of OS X including the file system and the BSD underpinnings. For those who [...]
Posted in Mac OS X | Also tagged file system, Linux, utility, Windows | 2 Comments

Recover data from an iPhone backup

By Sharninder | Published: February 3, 2009
My sister lost her iPhone a couple of days back and with that all her contacts, notes and calender entries that she had painstakingly stored on the device. Her only hope of getting all that important data back was the backup that she had taken a couple of days earlier and she asked me to help [...]
Posted in Linux, Mac OS X | Also tagged iphone, iTunes, Linux, opensource | 53 Comments

Control firefox with the keyboard using ubiquity

By Sharninder | Published: January 31, 2009
Well, actually, Ubiquity can do a lot more. Ubiquity is a firefox extesion that is can really only be described as a launcher for the Internet, integrated with the web browser, which in this case is Firefox. Confused ? Well, Let me explain. Ubiquity allows you to use your keyboard to give commands to the browser that’ll [...]
Posted in Firefox, Linux, Useful Utilities | Also tagged add-ons, extension, Firefox, firefox extensions, Linux, Windows | 1 Comment

Convert videos for your iPhone with free tools

By Sharninder | Published: December 25, 2008
The iPhone is a wonderful device to watch videos thanks to it’s big and bright screen. The only problem I have with it is the limited number of video formats that it supports. Most videos that I download from the net are in formats that the iPhone refuses to understand and play. I’ve tried searching online [...]
Posted in Open Source, Useful Utilities | Also tagged ffmpeg, iphone, ipod, Linux, opensource, Windows | Leave a comment
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