Posts Tagged ‘macintosh’
In the five years or so that I have been running OSX as a non-Admin user, I have only found a few annoyances. The biggets of which is that Software Update no longer checks for updates automatically (since no one is logged in as an administrator).
Thankfully, with updatecheck that is no longer a problem.
As per a bunch of other sites (that I forgot to write down), you can now enable half star ratings in iTunes using the defaults command:
defaults write com.apple.iTunes allow-half-stars -bool TRUE
This doesn’t do me a great deal of good since my primary computer is no longer the one with the iTunes library on it, but [...]
I thought that in 2008 we were past this crap:
Some web browsers are unable to display all site information correctly. This is most common on our site for MAC users that are using Internet Explorer as their browser. Our site is designed to work best on a Windows operating system, with Internet Explorer [...]
After several mis-steps, I finally got Leopard installed on Letterbox (the iBook G4). Since it misses the cutoff for requirements, I turned to the OpenFirmware trick on LowEndMac. Before trying to install, boot into open firmware and enter:
dev /cpus/PowerPC,G4@0 d# 867000000 encode-int ” clock-frequency” property boot cd:,\\:tbxi
This will convince the computer that it actually has an 867Mhz [...]
A similar plugin for Mac OSX Mail has also been available for quite a while. I’ve been using it for several years without nay problems. [www.bazza.com]
There is also another plugin which does the same thing and works in 10.4. [www.hawkwings.net]
Lifehacker comment on Gmail Labs Adds Forgotten Attachment Detector.
When I wrote about Deep Fried (finally), it had been almost two years since I had decommissioned the drive. One (Thermostat) is used for offline storage and the other (Whirlpool) is used for the nightly back up and, up until tonight, Time Machine.
My current large storage volume of choice is the Infrant ReadyNAS NV (which [...]
Four years ago I had a new RAID-0 card and two of the biggest drives I could attach to it. And I was proud enough to take a screenshot:
And now you can buy twice as much in a single drive for 1/4 the same price. It doesn’t pay to be on the bleeding edge.
A good long time ago, there was a screencast of what you could do with FastScripts. Unfortunately, the screencast didn’t do it justice. The problem with doing a screen cast for an application/script launcher is that it is highly dependent on the applications and scripts that you have available. And, for the most part, [...]
After looking at the concepts in Fruux, I was left with one question:
How does this different in principle from Plaxo?
At the current time, the only answer I have is that Plaxo exists.
I have been working on a PDF newsletter for a while and wanted to get a preview of what the color document would look like printed to a black and white printer…and fit is surprisingly hard. Though it is not mentioned on the download page as a reason, CUPS-PDF will allow you to print a [...]