Mechanical Marksy

Deftones release Rocket Skates music video in HD for free

Mechanical Marksy — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:04:29 +0000

The Deftones latest single out is Rocket Skates for the up coming album Diamond Eyes. They’ve just released their latest single as HD for free – however it’s a QuickTime MOV file. Not MP4 or something that everyone can play/enjoy.

So I’ve created an MKV for those who don’t like/use QuickTime.

New York, Apple Store, Pizza and Hotdogs party (ft McLeay)

Mechanical Marksy — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:18:54 +0000

On the first of May me and Ali are nipping over to NY to do a bit of shopping and site seeing. Flying VirginAtlanic for some Mario before landing JFK, prolly staying in outside of Manhattan as $$$.

FTW,

Valve’s Steam coming to Mac

Mechanical Marksy — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 09:13:20 +0000

Sounds like Steam is coming over to the Mac, and it looks like Half Life is going to be one of the first games to come over.

Although, hackers have already ported the game over obviously not multiplayer (Counterstrike etc).

Hopefully, the license will work on the mac too?

Check out these images found around the place:

RipIt vs Handbrake

Mechanical Marksy — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 22:22:00 +0000

RipIt is a great small app to quickly rip a DVD to your harddrive. However, it uses ffmpegx which can only utilise two cores.

Handbrake goes nuts. It uses as many cores available and can rip discs from DVD to mp4 on the fly (without having to rip to harddrive first).

Of course you have to click a couple of buttons (source, then start) with Handbrake, whereas RipIt can rip without any clicks.

Here is the CPU log of just RipIt (notice the 150%):

Now, here is Handbrake:

Results:
Handbrake 33mins, 743mb
RipIt 1hr 58, 1503mb

Handbrake wins. Flawless victory.

MacHeist nanoBundle2

Mechanical Marksy — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 10:47:00 +0000

New pack of software is available for OS X for only $19.95 from www.macheist.com

Package includes:

MacJournal Writing and Blogging software
RipIt DVD decryption and resize compression (not to avi/mp4)
Clips Multiple Copy & Paste
CoverScout Finds missing covers for iTunes
Flow Web creation
RapidWeaver Web creation

and if the bundle reaches 50,000 downloads they will open up

Tales of Monkey Island

I find the first 4 useful, the two web creation software are a bit… elephants.

Windows XP on VMware Fusion Network problems

Mechanical Marksy — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 10:04:46 +0000

Every once in a while i get this message in Windows XP VM “Network connection has limited or no connection”. Some people suggest to turn your VM settings to NAT. However, this was already set to NAT. To fix the problem, quit VMware, delete the plist files in your ~/Library/Preferences/

com.vmware.fusion.plist
com.vmware.fusionDaemon.plist

This should restore your network connection.

NIN in the studio? New material soon?

Mechanical Marksy — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:45:47 +0000

Reznor has just posted some new interesting photos on ninentitled “?”

Last time this happened it was the release of The Slip which was offered as a free download and later purchased digipak.

Sounds like the Halo volumes are back?

Updated: looks like Atticus Ross is back in there too. Perhaps a Ghosts V-IIX?

Cufon font fix for Mac

Mechanical Marksy — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 13:28:18 +0000

Mac fonts have to be converted first via command line. Use the following in a new terminal window:

cat “MyFontReg/..namedfork/rsrc” > “MyFontReg.dfont”

Turn your iPhone into a trackpad for your MacPro/iMac

Mechanical Marksy — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 19:32:59 +0000

Here’s a neat and free trick. Logictech have created an app for iPhone that allows you to control your pointer all over the screen, just like a trackpad.

It allows basic multi-gester too, such as scroll – no three finger flipping.

Download the Logictech server software and also the iphone app to get your tippytapping on.

Fix PDF in Safari

Mechanical Marksy — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 18:57:44 +0000

If you’ve just installed Adobe CS3/4 you may be wondering why your Safari on OS X can’t display PDFs anymore.

It’s because Adobe mucked up the plugin which tells Safari to choose an application to view the PDF files.

To fix the problem go to:
/Library/Internet Plug-ins/

and delete the file:
AdobePDFViewer.plugin

Restart Safari and you will be looking at PDFs in a snap.