Author Archives: Dae

Does Adobe Illustrator use CUDA or OpenCL for GPU acceleration?

Posted on November 4, 2016 by Dae

Probably neither. If someone tells you otherwise, ask them to back up their claim.

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macOS kernel programming bounty to revive SmoothMouse (PAUSED)

Posted on October 29, 2016 by Dae

The discontinuation of SmoothMouse seems to have upset many people. Now that the pointer lag is fixed in the newer versions of macOS, I was hoping our users would find other 3rd party mouse drivers more useful for they provide more acceleration controls than … Continue reading →

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Beware, fraudsters: Chrono Informatique

Posted on October 24, 2016 by Dae

I’ve been recently scammed by a French e-shop called Chrono Informatique (chrono-informatique.com) from Agen, France. They sold me a dead power supply for Synology NAS 2413+ and refused to refund after I sent it back, claiming that I opened and damaged it myself.

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A brief note on BizonBox 2 + GTX 980

Posted on October 3, 2016 by Dae

BizonBox is a Thunderbolt enclosure for PCIe videocards, assembled by Russian company Bizon specialising in selling Hackintoshes and hardware upgrades for Macs. I had a chance to get my hands on one of these devices.

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On macOS Sierra support and the future of SmoothMouse

Posted on September 21, 2016 by Dae

Long story short.

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XQuartz.pkg stalls at “verifying” in El Capitan

Posted on July 29, 2016 by Dae

I don’t know why OS X El Capitan sometimes fails to verify XQuartz 2.7.9 package (the process just gets stuck despite “Allow apps downloaded from anywhere” on “Enabled”). What I know, however, is that you can still install it via Terminal as easy … Continue reading →

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SmoothMouse does not work in macOS Sierra

Posted on June 16, 2016 by Dae

Do not install macOS Sierra if your productivity depends on SmoothMouse, currently it  does not work on it. We’ll be investigating the problem soon. Update: sorry, we won’t support Sierra.

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Run Django dev server with Gulp

Posted on May 22, 2016 by Dae

This is basically an extract from this excellent article by Caktus Group’s Calvin Spealman.

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About the author

Posted on April 27, 2016 by Dae

My name is Eugene. In the Internet I’m known as Dae*. I’m an IT professional, web-developer and a producer/investor who works with a number of small teams (like SmoothMouse, a mouse driver for macOS) and businesses in Europe (like Andy Fiord Fashion Advertising) … Continue reading →

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Django: add i18n template tag to built-ins

Posted on December 6, 2015 by Dae

Django 1.9 allows you to load template tags globally, i.e. without having to include {% load %} statements at the top of each template. The new option is called builtins and you can set it in your settings.py like so … Continue reading →

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