Chad von Nau is a designer, filmmaker, and computer guy.
Holy hell, I spent a lot of time making this website. I’m happy about how it has turned out, but I’m even more happy about the way that I’ve built it. For those of you nerds, allow me entertain you with the technical details.
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Every time you plug a Sony camcorder into a Mac, two disks mount. One of them, called PMBPORTABLE, is unnecessary. This is how to get rid of it without making any changes to the camera.
Read article CommentsHere’s how to write an email address on your website safely, so that it won’t get picked up by email address harvesters.
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I was spending a lot of time rendering and compressing and uploading and looking at progress bars. I wanted to automate the process.
Read article CommentsOn a Mac, when you hover your mouse over a word and press CTRL – CMD – D, it will bring up a little box with the definition of the word. I love this feature so much. A few months ago, it stopped working for me. I finally found a fix.
Read article CommentsI’ve been using this app at school to synchronize the multiple folders where I’ve been storing large QuickTime videos. It does exactly what its name says. It’s very simple to use, works well with networked volumes, and it’s free.
Read article CommentsMyspace does not give you an option to hide your relationship status. You can force hide it with this trick.
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You have an Apple laptop, and you want to use the F-keys at the top of your keyboard for hardware functions (volume and brightness) and you also want to use them for Exposé and other software functions. You wind up using the fn key more than you’d like. Or maybe you’re just tired of turning on the keyboard backlighting by accident.
Read article CommentsYou only want to synchronize some contacts between Address Book and your phone, so you create a group in Address Book, and set iSync to only sync this group. The problem is when you add a new contact on your phone, iSync does not add it to the group on your Mac. This is a workaround to manually maintain sync.
Read article CommentsAn analysis of YouTube’s first generation encoding format.
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