Mac OSX Finder Dupe (ie easily open another Finder Window)

Something I do alot on the Mac is copy files from one place to another. By default clicking on the Finder icon on the Dock just brings to the front the Finder window you already have open – it doesn’t open a new window. There are a few utilities out there that help you open Finder windows, position them etc, but I wanted something simple so that when I had a Finder Window open, I could just click a button and it would duplicate the view of that Finder window and open it.

JOBO photoGPS on Mac OSX

In 2008 JOBO released a GPS device to assist with geotagging photos that sits in the hot-shoe of your favourite DSLR camera called the JOBO photoGPS. It’s a very convenient unit that takes a non-GPS capable DSLR and gives it GPS abilities. I use mine on my Canon 450D, and they can be found online at places such as B&H.

Getting Windows 7 (or Vista) onto a HP Mini 1001

Just got my hands on a HP Mini 1001TU for testing and decided to put Windows 7 Public Beta on it. As there is no CD/DVD drive in the box, I knew someone out there had to have found a way to use a USB stick to do it – and so they have. Here’s the link (and thanks!).

As for Windows 7? Working brilliantly and far better than the Windows XP the Mini ships with. Just need to install the latest Vista 32bit Synaptics touchpad driver from here.

One more thing – Microsoft have removed Mail, Contacts & Calendars from Windows 7, but you can get them again via http://download.live.com/wlmail

Regards,
Shane.

iSync Plugin for Sony Ericsson K850i

Where are the iSync Plugins?
In my constant search for work phones that do what I want them to do (my personal phone will be an iPhone so can’t carry 2) I’ve been provided a Sony Ericsson K850i, which is an 850MHz (“Next G”) supporting phone with a 5 megapixel camera.

Updated: PS3 with no Infra Red – Sony what were you thinking?

So I have a PS3, and Bluray movies look and sound great.

I also have an Xbox 360, an Onkyo Receiver and a Samsung Plasma television, and long ago gained the benefit of utilising a Logitech Harmony remote control so I only have one remote to deal with.

Latest Movies Trailers on your iPod

Update: Looks like with some changes that Apple have made this Yahoo Pipes feed no longer works. Luckily it looks like Apple have provided us an answer which I have been testing over the past few days. They don’t publicly advertise this but there is an RSS/Podcast feed that works. I’ve updated the instructions below to match.

I have an iPhone and an iPod Touch, and was looking for a way to automatically get the latest movie trailers downloading onto it. I noticed on some of the movie trailer pages at Apple’s Movie Trailer site they had an iPod link, which opened automatically for me in iTunes as a Podcast.

So I thought there had to be a better way – how can I get a Podcast of all of the latest trailers? Obviously a gentleman named Mason Turner thought the same as me and used Yahoo Pipes to make it happen.

Optus Wireless Broadband USB on Mac OSX

I recently moved my data only mobile plan from 3 to Optus due to their support of fallback to GPRS at no additional charge (ie better coverage).

With this came the Optus Roamer USB modem, which is actually a Huawei E220 modem in a “nice” Optus white and yellow case.

The problem was I wanted to run this on both my PC and my Mac, and Optus don’t support Mac OSX. The good thing is, Huawei do, and drivers are available (but hard to find).

Got a Nokia N-Series? How does free WiFi sound?

I just read on Nokia Australia’s website that they have teamed up with Azure Wireless to provide free WiFi access for any user of a WiFi enabled N-Series handset at any Azure Wireless Hotspot across this sunburnt country.

Check here for more info from Nokia, or here for the list of hotspots.

I haven’t tried it yet (will do so and report back), but supposedly you just run the WLAN Wizard app on your phone, connect to the Azure AP and you’re away!

If anyone reading tries this and it works, please post a comment.

Regards,
Shane.

Is IMAP not showing in your Gmail Settings?

As of October 2007, Google have enabled IMAP support for Gmail, but it wasn’t showing in my settings. I did some searches and no-one had a workaround other than “wait, your server probably isn’t updated yet”. Well I think I have a fix, and it’s easy.

iSync Plugin for Nokia 6120 Classic

Hi again,

Work has just ported all of us employees over to Telstra, and supplied a NextG SIM card so I picked myself up a Nokia 6120 Classic to assist in some signal strength issues in my home office, and it’s worked brilliantly.

The only thing I didn’t count on is Nokia not having an iSync plugin for the phone (they seem to have one for every other device).