Category Archives: mac
Apple’s new PR boilerplate signals change in direction
I just noticed this today, but it happened a couple of months ago. There’s no more “Apple ignited the personal computer revolution,” which had been there since at least 1998. Here’s the new boilerplate, which first appeared on June 28, … Continue reading
When to buy a refurbished Mac
No, I’m not going to tell you when during the year to buy a Mac (“not the week before WWDC”), but I am going to share a neat trick. Tragedy of the commons, here we go. Apple’s online store has … Continue reading
A Chrome funny
I’ve been playing with the prerelease version of Chrome for Mac OS X and found a rather amusing bug:
The great Mac OS X Software Update chart
table.update { border-collapse: collapse; } table.update td, table.update th {text-align: right; vertical-align: top; padding: 0.5em 0.3em;} table.update tr:nth-child(odd) { background: #eee;} Recently, my friend Rob posed a question to twitter: Is Mac OS X 10.5.7 the single biggest patch Apple … Continue reading
HOWTO set the default target in Xcode
Your Xcode project has one or more targets. Each target builds something—a command-line tool, a framework or an application. The Target popup menu lets you determine the active target. The active target gets built when you click “Build” or “Build … Continue reading
HOWTO set up an SOCKS proxy via an SSH tunnel on Mac OS X
Recently, I came across some streaming video that was only available to Canadians. Being a Canadian in the US, I felt somewhat entitled. Yes: I wanted to watch a hockey game. I knew I could do this with an SSH … Continue reading
HOWTO disable overlays in Boinx FotoMagico standalone players
FotoMagico is program that lets you create amazing slideshows. In FotoMagico, slides advance in one of two ways: automatically, after a set time period after a mouse click If you’ve picked option (2), you see a “fast forward” overlay when … Continue reading
Mac Productivity 101
Here are the tools I mentioned in my Mac Productivity 101 session at the San Fran MusicTech Summit: Know your instrument Inquisitor: Google inside Safari Quicksilver and LaunchBar: application launchers Collaboration SubEthaEdit: collaborative text editor Screen Sharing: built in to … Continue reading
Hidden Leopard feature: System Profiler
Here’s a neat Leopard trick I haven’t seen anywhere else. Hold down the option key while choosing  > About This Mac, and the menu item will change to “System Profiler.” That’s much quicker than the old method of (i) … Continue reading
Gruber, you missed the obvious pun
It’s not Bungie Spins Off From Microsoft, but rather “Microsoft cuts cord.”