Solutions & Fixes

Here's a simple and effective way to block and remove the potentially annoying and obtrusive "annotations" (or overlays) that appear over the top of many Youtube videos. Nice.

Here's a few ways to prevent capitalisation of abbreviations in Scrivener on OS X.

Fast access to special characters in Firefox, and double-dash to em-dash replacement.

If you've ever had a window end up with its titlebar above the top of the screen, you might know how tricky it is to move it. With the title bar hidden, it may seem impossible. Here's a few easy solutions for repositioning rogue windows on OS X.

Skype on OS X (and on Windows, for that matter) does not provide a way to save video messages. From what I understand, you'll need to pay for a pro version of Skype (according to what I've read in forums; it's not something I've confirmed with Skype.com) for the ability to save video messages. That sounds ridiculous to me. There's another way. I provide the simplest solution here.

Do you use Adobe Premier Pro CS5, CS6, or CC on an iMac or Macbook Pro? Have you noticed video rendering takes a really long time? This may be an easy way to fix it, by enabling CUDA hardware acceleration support.