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Using a Samsung TV as an external monitor

Sep 27

Posted by Tom in Reminders | 1 Comment

Here’s a weird bug. I connected my macbook pro to my Samsung widescreen TV – it was detected but I had to select 59.9 as the refresh rate (rather than then autodetected 60) otherwise the TV just sat there with a message that I was using an unsupported display setting. That’s fine but how to do this in clamshell mode as macs seem not to share monitor settings between dual monitor mode and clamshell mode (or for that matter a mac mini connected to the same TV)?
My solution was to turn on screen sharing and enable VNC access. Then I plugged the mac (in clamshell mode) into the TV and connected to it via VNC. I could then select a 59.9 refresh rate and the TV magically came to life. This only needed to be done the first time I connected the mac & TV together. Weird ….

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How to resize iTunes on OSX

Jun 24

Posted by Tom in Mac, Reminders | 3 Comments

I’ve updated to a smaller macbook – unfortunately iTunes remembered its previous size. Usually you can go to the Window > Zoom menu bar option and resize a wayward mac application, but iTunes just turns itself into a little application – not quite what I wanted. However, if you hold Alt/Option key while you click on Window > Zoom in the menu bar, iTunes will resize itself to fit the available screen area. Weird.

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JPasskeep Update

May 5

Posted by Tom in Mac, My Code | No Comments

Just finished a new version of my long-running password keeper application. You can download the cross-platform version, the mac dmg image, and the source code. New changes include the ability to export entries to an encrypted HTML page (see my previous post on javascript cryptography) and bundling the cross-platform version as a single JAR file using one-jar. As usual this version does not rely on javax.crypto APIs to function so it should work wherever a JDK5 compatible VM can run. Feature requests, bug reports and comments are always welcome.

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