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Some interesting USB devices to add more than 2 monitors to your PC or Mac (via: USB Graphics – Graphic solutions GeForce & Radeon)

Posted by jpluimers on 2012/11/09

Thanks to Matthijs ter Woord who pointed me to these.

They require a single Intel®, Nvidia®, or AMD® primary WDDM driver. That driver does the actual rendering, the USB device then gets the rendered parts over USB to the monitor.

The really cool thing is: they work on a PC with Windows XP and higher, and on  Mac with OS X Tiger or better.

The chipsets are based on DisplayLink technology; they have their own USB devices as well.

USB2.0 to DVI-I Graphics

CSV-2000D – SenseVision USB Graphics – USB2.0 to DVI-I

USB2.0 to DVI-I graphics devices let you easily add an additional monitor to your notebook PC, desktop and MacBook®. The Club 3D SenseVision USB2.0 to DVI-I Graphics allows you to extend your desktop display beyond 1080p HD resolution displays. … View Details

USB2.0 to HDMI Graphics

CSV-2000H – SenseVision USB Graphics – USB2.0 to HDMI

USB2.0 to HDMI graphics devices let you easily add an additional monitor to your notebook PC, desktop and MacBook®. The Club 3D SenseVision USB2.0 to HDMI Graphics allows you to extend your desktop display beyond 1080p HD resolution displays. … View Details

–jeroen

via: USB Graphics – Graphic solutions GeForce & Radeon.

Posted in Apple, Mac, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, MacBook, MacBook-Air, MacBook-Pro, Power User, Windows, Windows 7, Windows 8 | Leave a Comment »

Zero-day Java exploit fixed: Either update Java immediately, or disable it if you don’t use/need it

Posted by jpluimers on 2012/08/31

On monday, I wrote it was Time to disable Java for a while: Zero-Day Season is Not Over Yet.

Today Oracle released a fix, which you should either install immediately (that is NOW, don’t hesitate!).

For this vulnerability, it is enough to disable Java from your browser – see: How to disable Java in your web browser – but as with any software: if you don’t need it, just disable/uninstall it.

Disabling/uninstalling on a Mac may impose a problem, as Apple hasn’t come with an update for the OS X editions that came with Java pre-installed.

Most other users can either install the version on their current system on-line from Download Free Java Software, or download offline installers for other systems at Java Downloads for All Operating Systems.

I might actually try the Java Unattended Silent Installer and Updater from Ninite – Install or Update Multiple Apps at Once.

–jeroen

via:

 

Posted in *nix, Apple, LifeHacker, Mac, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, MacBook, MacBook-Air, MacBook-Pro, Power User, Windows, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Server 2000, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Vista, Windows XP | Leave a Comment »

Time to disable Java for a while: Zero-Day Season is Not Over Yet

Posted by jpluimers on 2012/08/27

Hmm, time to disable Java for a while:

Malware Intelligence Lab from FireEye – Research & Analysis of Zero-Day & Advanced Targeted Threats:Zero-Day Season is Not Over Yet.

–jeroen

Posted in *nix, Apple, Chrome, Google, Linux, Mac, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, MacBook, MacBook-Air, MacBook-Pro, Power User | 3 Comments »

SSH tricks

Posted by jpluimers on 2012/08/24

SSH tricks

SSH tricks

Recommended reading:  SSH tricks

Quote:

SSH is a protocol for authenticating and encrypting remote shell sessions.

But, using SSH for just remote shell sessions ignores 90% of what it can do.

$ ssh home -L 80:reddit.com:80

This article covers less common SSH use cases, such as:

  • using passwordless, key-based login;
  • setting up local per-host configurations;
  • exporting a local service through a firewall;
  • accessing a remote service through a firewall;
  • executing commands remotely from scripts;
  • transfering files to/from remote machines;
  • mounting a filesystem through SSH; and
  • triggering admin scripts from a phone.

–jeroen

via: SSH tricks.

Posted in *nix, Apple, Cygwin, Endian, Internet, Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, MacBook, MacBook-Air, MacBook-Pro, Power User | Leave a Comment »

Mac OS X: Copy and paste the full path of a file in the Finder (via: Reality Distortion)

Posted by jpluimers on 2012/07/27

FilePathToClipCMPlugin is a live saver.

  1. Download it.
  2. Open the .dmg
  3. Open a new Finder window
  4. Point it to the folder “/Library/Contextual Menu Items/” or to “˜/Library/Contextual Menu Items/” (create the latter if it does not exist).
  5. Drag the required plugins there
  6. Restart your machine (restarting the Finder did not work for me)

–jeroen

via: Copy and paste the full path of a file in the Finder — Reality Distortion: Macs, Mac OS X, and Apple stuff.

Posted in Apple, Clipboard, Mac, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, MacBook, MacBook-Air, MacBook-Pro, Power User | Leave a Comment »

Mac practical joke: How to Invert Colors on a Mac – wikiHow

Posted by jpluimers on 2011/10/10

Press Ctrl–Option–Command–8 in your colleagues keyboard and watch them getting their inverted colours back :)

It is like the 3-finger salute on Windows, but much much nicer, as the inversion is all done on the GPU hardware :)

–jeroen

Via: How to Invert Colors on a Mac – wikiHow.

Posted in Apple, Fun, Keyboards and Keyboard Shortcuts, LifeHacker, Mac, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, MacBook, MacBook Retina, MacBook-Air, MacBook-Pro, Power User | Leave a Comment »

MacBook (or -Pro; -Air): Disable the default “fn key” behaviour and enable the normal Function-keys by default

Posted by jpluimers on 2011/10/03

In their infinite wisdom Apple has chosen to cripple the Apple keyboards on the MacBook (and -Pro and -Air) to default the top-row keys to not behave as function keys.

Apparently they expect people to use those keys more often for changing screen brightness, multi media playing, sound volume, than as function keys.

Maybe it is their 1 Infinite Loop address, but out there in the real world, people appreciate the function keys by default to behave, well like they are meant for: Function Keys and not having to press the fn key to use them.

Actually, some people at Apple were smart enough to make this configurable, but it is well hidden behind the phrase “Use F1-F12 keys to control software features” as the MacRumors Forums 2007 post titled “View Single Post – How To F Lock?” points out.

In the mean time however, the Mac OS X System Preferences to reorganized quite a bit, and “Keyboard & Mouse” are now to separate entries. So the steps are now these:

  1. Press Command-Space to start the Spotlight Window
    (yes, the Command Key still is marked as ⌘ for consistency, but for how long?)
  2. Type “Keyboard” (without double quotes ;-)
  3. Choose the “Keyboard” entry under “System Preferences”
  4. Put a checkmark in front of the “Use all F1, F2, etc. jeys as standard function keys”
    When this option is selected, press the Fn key to us ethe special features printed on each key”
    (note that on a MacBook Air, the key is not “Fn”, but “fn”: so far for consistency again)
  5. Done.

There even seem to be some answers on the Apple discussion forums seem to hint on this, but – at the time of writing – they all conveniently show up as “We’ll be back soon” for some time now, thereby redefining the term “shortly” in the same pass:

We will be back soon.

Being in this mode, it would be soooooo nice if actually they marked the option key with the same character as they refer to it from the menus: ⌥.
They used to on older versions of the option key (even on old MacBook Pro machines). Now that would be consistent user experience…

Now people have to find the right Apple documentation on keyboard shortcuts to find out what the symbols mean.

But – though often famed for consistency –  I don’t think it is one of Apple strengths.

–jeroen

via: MacRumors Forums – View Single Post – How To F Lock?.

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