Blackarch on the chuwi hi10pro – prereq’s a usb hub a usb flashdrive a usb mouse a usb wifi adaptor (at least for the initial setup) Download blackarch from https://blackarch.org/downloads.html write to a usb drive (I used Etcher to do this part) Plug into chuwi and boot – Press F7 Read more…
This post contains the kali linux keyboard freeze fix. Kali 2.0 is out, and I’ve installed it on my work pc; one thing I noticed was that the usb keyboard kept becoming un-responsive. It was very annoying. Symptoms Keyboard stops responding randomly for a few seconds, making typing very difficult. Read more…
I had an old usb harddrive caddy sitting about that only worked with IDE drives. I also had an old usb to ide (both 2.5 and 3.5 drives) and sata drives with no power supply. I also have a variable PSU. I have a pile of old harddrives that I Read more…
mc for mac osx! GNU Midnight Commander – mc – is an excellent orthodox text mode file manager. mc runs in your console, and has mouse support. It also has support for utf-8. It has a builtin editor (though you can configure your own, so you can use vim if Read more…
If you have a lot of apps in your App Store purchase list in your ipad / iPhone then you might want to delete some of the apps that you either no longer use, or that you downloaded once to try out and found they were no good! There used Read more…
This tip will show you a multitouch gesture to get rid of a single notification center notification! when a notification appears, move your mouse pointer till its on top of the notification. swipe to the right with two fingers the notification will disappear!
This is an excellent tip. if you like the natural scrolling in osx lion for your trackpad, but want the old style scrolling for your mouse, then it is possible. download scrollreverser make sure that you have natural scrolling enabled: system preferences > trackpad > natural scrolling on start scrollreverser Read more…
Using an apple magic mouse with linux is very easy: this post will show you how to setup an apple magic mouse on linux ubuntu, fedora, mint, etc. The apple mouse uses bluetooth to connect, so you need a bluetooth device (it may be built-in if you have a laptop). Read more…
This will show you how to preview files in spotlight on osx. if you perform a search using spotlight you can preview all the files shown, simply hover the mouse over the file and a ‘quicklook’ will appear. if its an mp3 or any other music file then you can Read more…
This will show you how to eject a stuck dvd or cd from your mac 1) try holding the eject key, it may work 2) try dragging the mounted cd to the trash, it may work 3) open finder and try clicking on the eject button next to the cd Read more…
This is a cool trick, I found it by accident. to show the dock in a full screen app in osx lion move your mouse pointer to the place where the dock usually is [like the bottom of the screen, or the left / right of the screen if you Read more…
Adding virtual desktops in mac osx This is a short blog post about adding virtual desktops in mac osx – virtual desktops are a cool feature that let you have lots of ‘fake’ monitors that you can use to organise your programs, and you can access them with a mouse Read more…
I like the new scrolling in osx lion. my brother hates it. If you want to turn osx lion scrolling back to normal like snow leopard then: Turn osx lion scrolling back to normal like snow leopard system preferences > trackpad > scroll & zoom untick ‘scroll direction: natural’ you Read more…
This is a short linux bluetooth scanning tutorial with some tools you can use in backtrack linux (now kali linux) or any distribution you prefer to perform bluetooth scans. Its not comprehensive, but will show you the tools that you need to get started searching for nearby devices. linux bluetooth Read more…
A monochrome laptop, hooking up to a 14.4k modem, going on a bbs, learning AT commands It was nineteen ninety something before five, probably two or three. I must have been eleven or twelve years old. My dad had a monochrome laptop. 486 25 MHz, monochrome screen, 4Mb ram, 40Mb Read more…
i got a magic mouse the first day they were out. It was crap. well, it was ok, but I was used to a razer 2000dpi gaming mouse, the magic mouse was just far to slow. This app (magic prefs) will fix it for you. =)
ableton tutorial #1
warp markers.
this is the most important and the best thing about abelton – they are called warp markers.
im gonna tell you what they are all about, and im gonna tell you how you can use them to your advantage.
so…
fire up abelton.