To take a screenshot on a Mac you can use the following simple keyboard shortcuts:

To save a screenshot to the desktop on a Mac

• Command-Shift-3 : Take a screenshot of the Mac screen, and save it as a file on the desktop.
• Command-Shift-4 : Hold down the mouse button and select an area of the Mac screen to save a screenshot of that area as a fiile on the desktop.
• Command-Shift-4 : Press the space key and then click a window to take a screenshot of that window and save it as a file on the desktop.

To save a screenshot to the clipboard on a Mac

Canon have a fantastic little app, which works on both Windows and Mac, called EOS Utility, which among other things allows you to do time lapse photography!

I lost my CD ages ago, because you know … everyone knows that all responsible companies let you download support tools from their website ..

Unfortunately no one informed Canon of this amazing new way of thinking, and they only let you download an update for the EOS Utility application, which throws a massive hissy fit if you try to install it on a machine that doesn’t already have it installed!

I wanted to give Google’s new Go language a try which requires checking out the source code with Mercurial.

Mercurial was installed from ports on my Mac with

<br /> sudo port install mecurial<br />

But checking out the code threw an error.

<br /> Chill:~ rus$ hg clone -r release https://go.googlecode.com/hg/ $GOROOT<br /> abort: Python support for SSL and HTTPS is not installed<br /> Exception exceptions.AttributeError: "'httpsrepository' object has no attribute 'urlopener'" in > ignored<br />