Due to the portability & power of the MacBook Air range, lots of people have been buying them to use solely as Windows laptops too, I will run through how you can set one up as a Windows 7 only machine, whilst I have been doing this on MacBook Airs, I don’t see why you …
Monthly Archives: June 2012
NFS mounts – No Path to Directory
So the other day I was trying to configure a Mac server to export the /Users directory and I kept getting the error mentioned above ‘No path to directory’, which was odd, but it seems that NFS is not a fan of aliases, and I had moved the Users directory onto another hard drive (as …
Matlab – Warning: Name is nonexistent or not a directory
If you have experienced the error mentioned above, particularly when using a shared computer then the chances are that the directories listed relate to a user account or area of the filesystem that you don’t have access to, or they have been deleted. To resolve the problem, it is very simple, follow the instructions listed …
Briefly Magnify Dock Icons
If you have your Dock set up like mine (small icons with magnification switched off) then you may have come across some situations where you would like the icons magnified briefly, for example, when I ARD into some machines with a larger screen size than the one I’m working on, the display is shrunk to …
Sign a PDF with Preview
One of the features often underused in Preview is the ability to add your signature to a PDF document, and it is fairly simple to do, providing you have a webcam, just follow the instructions below Open Preview (located in /Applications) Then click on Preview in the menu bar at the top of the screen …