Technical

Movie Splitter and Multilingual Chapter Markers

The latest Miln Movie Splitter update adds support for multilingual chapters markers. This odd sounding improvement is as strange as you might imagine.

Problems with OS X 10.11 – El Capitan

This year Apple released OS X 10.11, as known as El Capitan. This has not been a good update for me.

Speaking with a French accent – OS X say

It happens that the OS X voice Thomas is designed for the French language. Let’s have some fun! And then let’s do something useful.

Improving Hugin on OS X

Today I discovered how to install an external tool to assist Hugin and in turn create better panoramic photos.

Photos – Connecting to Library

I care deeply about my photos and my ability to share photos privately with family. It is important in feeling connected with family living in different countries to ourselves.

Photos – Comments in Apple's New Photo Application

Struggling to find how to comment and like shared photos in Apple’s new Photos app? Discover how to regain this essential feature.

The older Mac Pro is heavy. Particularly when you are lifting it above your head trying to find a balance between delicacy and suppressed panic. After all, you have thousands of pounds of equipement above you and a lot of potential wasted time, if you make a mistake.

Exporting Contacts to CSV

An AppleScript to export name and e-mail addresses from Contacts.app on Mac OS X to a Comma Separated Values (CSV) file.

Every 30 Seconds

For the last few days this site, The Work Life, has been undergoing a persistent attack. Every 30 seconds an attempt was being made on our WordPress administration page. The attack made no impact on the site but did turn up in our log files as an anomaly.

Pushing a Mac Pro

It takes a bit to push a computer to it computational limits. Particularly a professional computer with many many computational cores. With this in mind, I was pleased to see my Mac Pro’s processing capacity limiting the encoding of my films.