Category Archives: scripting general

Access iPhone Backup, recover files from iPhone backup

Posted on 12 September, 2008 by Hal

It was bound to happen sooner or later. I took a photo with my phone and used the image as the wallpaper for when the phone is locked. However, I completely overlooked this when I deleted the original image from … Continue reading →

Posted in Computer Tips, General Comments, Mobile Phones, Photography, scripting general | 62 Comments

Combining PDF files using Mac OSX

Posted on 21 February, 2008 by Hal

Every now and then I get the urge to start Adobe Acrobat when I’m using my Mac. I don’t like doing this, because Acrobat is a bit of a beast and I’ve had more failures with it than successes. It’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Cleveratom, scripting general | 28 Comments

Firefox Search Bar tricks, changing the default Firefox search from US to UK

Posted on 18 February, 2008 by Hal

I’m a bit of a Firefox fan, despite the fact the browser seems to render colours with less saturation. One of the very nice things I like is the search bar at the top right, which contains links through to … Continue reading →

Posted in Computer Tips, scripting general | 6 Comments

Dark Mood V2 WordPress theme, editing wordpress files, encoding PHP

Posted on 30 July, 2007 by Hal

It may come as no surprise to some to find that freely available themes have got advertising embedded in them by default. It came as a surprise to me, mind you! I downloaded and installed the Dark Mood V2 wordpress … Continue reading →

Posted in PHP coding, Scams, scripting general, Web Authoring | 8 Comments

Using ‘Grep’ with BBEdit

Posted on 13 November, 2006 by Hal

I learnt an interesting thing last week, the day after I had been working on some DVD Studio Pro subtitles. I had used Excel and BBedit (from barebones software) to do some find and replace operations in order to re-structure … Continue reading →

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