Swiftfox no flash sound problem

You’ve installed Swiftfox and you’ve got no sound while playing flash videos ? If you’re an Ubuntu user don’t bother yourself with the myriads of proposed solutions and install the flashplugin-nonfree-extrasound package.

Swiftfox is a closed source app, there’s an excellent open source alternative : Swiftweasel, give it a try it’s as fast and lightweighted. For Mac users try Camino.

Both of this two apps can be translated using the official Mozilla language files, go to this url:

http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/

Select your version and check /linux-i686/xpi/ click on your xpi language file and it will install automatically.

Howto: Share an NTFS Drive under Linux with Mac

 

Recently I wanted to share my external NTFS Hardrive connected to my Linux desktop station with my Mac Laptop. I thought about using NFS but I prefered Samba to be able accessing the drive using Windows…

Howto: Write NTFS drives on MacOSX for Free

This can easily be done using the package made by Erik Larrson. In a few clicks you will install the NTFS-3G driver (used by the majority of recent Linux distros) that Erik ported to MacOSX, it will automatically replace the default NTFS driver without modifying the kernel thanks to MacFUSE.

The new driver lets you read/write Windows NTFS filesystems and even create and/or format partitions as NTFS.

Note that you can’t do a clean mount (you can still force) of NTFS filesystems that weren’t shutdown correctly under Windows (always use the unplug device functionality for your USB devices in Windows).

It’s easy (an uninstaller is also bundled with the package), fast and FREE.

Use Internet Explorer without Windows nor Emulation

Wonder how ? If you want to render a page or a website in all IE versions starting from 5.5, just try :

 

 

A Firefox extension can be found here.

To add the service to your website paste this code on the body :

<form method="post" id="form" name="form" action="http://ipinfo.info/netrenderer/index.php"
accept-charset="utf-8" target="_blank">

<select name="browser" style="width: 145px;">

<option value="ie8">Internet Explorer 8</option>

<option value="ie7">Internet Explorer 7</option>

<option value="ie6" selected="selected">Internet Explorer 6</option>

<option value="ie55">Internet Explorer 5.5</option>

<option value="ie-mix">IE7-IE6 Mixed</option>

<option value="ie-diff">IE7-IE6 Difference</option></select>&nbsp;

<input name="url" id="url" value="http://" size="61" maxlength="240" type="text">

<input name="go" value="Render" type="submit">

</form>

Another extension for all browsers rendering is available here but it’s still experimental and needs a trial registration to BrowserCam Capture Service.

 

 

You can also test your page in 23 browsers with litmus but you’ll have to pay (Only IE7 and FF2 rendering are free)

Howto: Take a screenshot in Mac OSX

You’re new to mac and you don’t find the Print Screen button ? You can take take three types of screenshots in Mac OSX without using third parties software :

1) A fullscreen capture : just hold down the apple button (Command), SHIFT and press 3.

2) A selection screenshot : Hold down the apple button, SHIFT and press 4, you’ll get a crosshair cursor to select the area to capture.

3) A window capture : If you want to do a perfect match capture of the currently active window, just hold down the apple button, shift, press 4 and then press spacebar you’ll get a camera cursor just left-click and here we are. (If you wanna do the same in GNOME and Windows just hit Alt+Print Screen)

All the screenshots are automatically saved on the Desktop.

Many people criticize the commercial aspect of Mac OSX but you can’t deny that it’s really user-friendly and smartly designed (even if the HFS/HFS+ filesystem peformance is controversial )…

Best PPC Linux Distro

You’re looking for a recent distro for your old iBook or PowerPC ? You can always try Ubuntu PPC but you have to know that even if it’s still developed it’s no longer supported by Canonical since 2006.

The best solution is OpenSuse, you’ve got an official distro with all the modern stuff inside (Compiz and like).

Best wallpapers ever

Tired of browsing deviantart and guistyles trying to select the best wallpapers ? Take a look at Interfacelift, you’ll find only stunning wallpapers no more cr*p.

Burn DMG files in Windows

The best solution I’ve found to burn dmg files in Windows is TransMac. The bad news is that it’s not free.

Btw note that 7-zip can unpack dmg files.

Fix Avatar bug in Messenger Mac 7

You can’t change your avatar in Microsoft Messenger Mac 7 ? Well that’s normal it’s Microsoft stuff  ! Now how to fix that ?

Just uninstall Messenger Mac 7 and install Messenger Mac 6 and just after that reinstall version 7. It should works.

Damn Microsoft…

Boot your Mac in Verbose Mode

If you want to check what your mac is doing on startup, just type the following command in a terminal :

 

sudo nvram boot-args=-v

 

It’s better to check if you have other arguments before by doing :

 

sudo nvram boot-args

 

If yes, just add -v to the other arguments

Now you’ve got the verbose mode activated, linuxheads feeling like home…

To get your old boot sceen back just type :

 

sudo nvram boot-args=

 

If you have other arguments just enter them after the = .