Monitor your Apple Airports with iNet network tool

Whilst poking around my home network I like to use an app for the Mac called iNet developed by BananaGlue, it’s really useful for scanning a network to discover each machines IP and Mac address, super useful if you’re like me and access machines via Remore Desktop.

I only today noticed an awesome new feature, the Airport Monitor. Simply put it allows you to monitor all the apple network airport you have connected.

Over time I’ve been converted over to using the Airport Express and Time Capsule after suffering many years for poorly designed and some what unreliable networking equipment from the likes of Netgear and Linksys.

Now iNet adds a new insight into what each airport is going, how it’s connected and the throughput you’re getting on your network. It’s also a great tool for monitoring how good the connections between your clients are.

If you have a network of apple products, it’s highly recommended.

 

Add Apple Magic Trackpad support for Windows 7

If you’re an owner of an Apple Magic trackpad and want to use it with Windows 7, there’s now a way to get access to the control panel settings, including two finger cross support…

Now that you have Apple Magic Trackpad running on Windows 7, you will be disappointed to know that the default Mouse properties does not work. In short, you cannot customize the speed or gestures of trackpad in Windows. This is where Magic Trackpad Control Panel comes in. It is a brilliant tool that allows you to set the tracking speed, double-click speed, and scrolling speed of the trackpad, and can be used to change both one finger and two finger gestures.

Direct link for drivers (32-bit); (64-bit); Control Panel via Addictive Tips

Apple Trackpad + Sticker + Software = Magic Numpad

 

Nice idea, but seriously $30 for a sticker and a utility? I think someones been hitting the apple sauce…

I love my compact little 13″ MacBook Pro. I really do. But I’m sick and tired of having to hunt down numbers on the top row of the keypad. I’m a square kind of girl. I like my number keys laid out in a grid like the good old-fashioned days. So clearly, I need this Magic Numpad accessory from Mobee. It turns an Apple Magic Trackpad into a number pad computer accessory.

via Apartment Therapy Unplggd.

Tip: How to select a mac startup volume on boot

Here’s a great tip for mac owners, if you’re trying to change the boot drive, just hold down the option (alt) key to get a graphical media up with all the possible drives found on your system. You can also eject stubbon disks from the DVD drive using the eject key on the keyboard.

via Apple.com

Give your iMac or Apple Cinema Display a comfy desk slipper

Yes it’s a bit ponsey, but lovely bit of design…

Here at hard graft we like to customize and hard graftify everything and anything for that special twist. The iMac Slipper came out of the desire to have a piece of hard graft right on our desktop.  Maybe you don’t really need one but isn’t it a really cool and unique way to customize your iMac or Cinema Display and show that you really care about the details?

via hard graft

How to create a USB installation disk from OS X 10.7 Lion download

For those wondering if it’s really practical to have an OS that’s download online, here’s a great guide by @holgr for how to extract the dmg file from the Lion app store download file, then load onto a USB drive…

Go to the Finder and drag InstallESD.dmg from there into the left hand pane of Disk Utility, then select it, go to Restore and drag the InstallESD.dmg into the Source field and your USB stick into the Destination field.

Click on “Restore” to start the process. It took about 10-15 minutes in the case of my USB stick, but you’ll see a nice progess bar during the process. When it’s finished, you should see the USB stick mounted on your desktop and the installation files in it.

After all that’s done reboot your Mac and press+hold the Alt key after the startup sound. Keep it pressed until you see the bootmenu and select the USB drive to boot from. That’s it, you can install 10.7 now.

via holgr.com

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