I’ve been playing with the prerelease version of Chrome for Mac OS X and found a rather amusing bug:
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The great Mac OS X Software Update chart
Recently, my friend Rob posed a question to twitter: Is Mac OS X 10.5.7 the single biggest patch Apple has ever released, or just one of the biggest? I thought that was an easy question to anwser. I was wrong. I looked all over the web for this information, and no one seemed to have …
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 & Go.” But what about the default target? What is it, and why do you …
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 tunnel. I just wasn’t sure how. There are lots of pages explaining how to set …
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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 you click the mouse: I dislike this. Fortunately, there’s a preference to turn this off. …
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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 Mac OS X Leopard Address Book: built in to Mac OS X Teleport: share one …
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) select About This Mac, (ii) click “More Info” (iii) close the about window.
Gruber, you missed the obvious pun
It’s not Bungie Spins Off From Microsoft, but rather “Microsoft cuts cord.”
Speaking at WWDC: Bug Reporting Best Practices
At this year’s Apple Worldwide Developers Conference, I’m giving version 2.0 of my Bug Reporting Best Practices talk. The official blurb: Bug reports that are complete and reproducible help to isolate known issues in system and application software, making a solution much more likely. Learn the bug reporting best practices that Apple has developed in …
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Troubleshooting a SanDisk SDDR-95 reader whose cards won’t mount
Say you have a SanDisk ImageMate (SDDR-95) USB 2.0 card reader with a Fuji xD card inside it. And you have a Mac running Mac OS X 10.4.9. And you attach the card reader, insert the card, and … nothing. The drive doesn’t show up on the desktop. It doesn’t show up in the sidebar. …
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