Osiblog

Today I added a new Mac section on http://www.basvandijk.eu/mac/. This section might be helpful for people who just started using a Mac and do not yet know which software can be useful.

Software apple, mac, OSX

Angry IP scanner is a free network scanner which supports Mac OSX, Windows and Linux. It has an intuitive GUI which makes it easy to use. You can download Angry IP scanner here, more screenshots are available here.

Software Linux, OSX, Software, Ubuntu, windows

If for example Pages crashes telling you and error occurred with the SFWordProcessing plugin. The steps below might be a solution:

1. Make sure all applications are closed!
2. Open Font book.
3. Scroll down to the Hoefler font and ctrl + click on it.
4. Choose “Remove Hoefler Text Family”
5. Download the new Hoefler font.
6. Extract the Hoefler.zip file and place it in: Macintosh HD/Library/Fonts
7. Launch Pages or iWeb and the everything should work as usual.

Hoefler

Software apple, font, iweb, OSX, pages

According to themselves Colourlovers.com is “a resource that monitors and influences color trends”. This website looks a bit like Adobe’s Kuler, but Colourlovers supports patterns and palettes. See the colourlovers website for yourself at the website.

Colourlover.com screenshot

Graphic design, web colours