Category Archives: Utilities

Secured Pages Under Public Menus Workaround in WhippleHill Podium

Posted on January 25, 2012 by mergy

We had a need where we wanted some pages for the Parents’ Association to have public pages in our public navigation but also wanted to limit access to a few of the sibling pages. This is not the default functionality … Continue reading →

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Host Only Networking Setup With VMWare Fusion 4

Posted on September 29, 2011 by mergy

I have used VMWare Workstation and Fusion for many years now on Linux, Windows and Mac OS X host operating systems. I have used the “host only” networking on Windows and Linux host operating systems, but never on OS X … Continue reading →

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Compiling current clone of FFMPEG on OS X 10.7 Lion

Posted on August 24, 2011 by mergy

Upgrading to OS X 10.7 (Lion) has really caused some issues for me. A big issue for me was not being able to easily grab the current clone of ffmpeg from the git repository. I was able to compile after … Continue reading →

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Desktop Paging Finally Back On Mac OS X

Posted on February 12, 2011 by mergy

After the demise of Codetek’s Virtual Desktop a few years ago, many Mac users who love desktop paging and virtual desktops were left with no real options. CodeTek’s software was actually very nice, but they just stopped updating it perhaps … Continue reading →

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Using Cron In OS X To Restart Symantec Backup Exec 2010 Agent

Posted on October 15, 2010 by mergy

Don’t get me wrong, I am happy Symantec finally released a Mac OS X 10.6 Agent for Symantec Backup Exec 2010 but it is a little buggy. So much so, that we feel we really need to just have it … Continue reading →

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