I downloaded the Canon LIDE scanner software. The file was a StuffIt (.sit) file. After I decompressed that, I was faced with “CSToolbox_OSX_v4130X.app.” That installed … another installer. The “CanoScan Toolbox Installer” actually installs the software. Ideally, this would have been a drag install from a mounted disk image. They could have at least used …
Category Archives: mac
wil shipley talks
Delicious Monster’s Wil Shipley gave a talk to students at WWDC 2005. His slides are now online. Well worth a read. And damn funny.
mac os x on intel
Developers Speak Universal Binary: As long as Apple picks the fastest chips, they could be tortilla chips for all we care. —Wil Shipley
Mad as hell, switching to Mac
Winn Schwartau ditched Windows: This is my first column written on a Mac – ever. Maybe I should have done it a long time ago, but I never said I was smart, just obstinate. I was a PC bigot. But now, I’ve had it. I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take it …
tiger mail: cage fighter
Cage Fighter restores Mac OS X Mail to its former glory.
adobe-macromedia acquisition
Daring Fireball: Translation from PR-Speak to English of selected portions of Adobe’s ‘FAQ’ regarding their acquisition of Macromedia.
free macworld expo pass
register by june 10, 2005 and get a free exhibit hall pass to macworld expo. use priority code B0401.
pimp my safari
forget pimp my ride, check out pimp my safari. i’ve already beeng using fiwt and PithHelmet. good stuff.
tiger review from windows guy
Paul Thurrott of WinSuperSite reviews Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger. He concludes (emphases mine): The marketing that accompanies Tiger’s release is no different: Described by Apple as “a super-modern operating system” and “the newest major release of the world’s most advanced operating system,” Tiger will, in Apple’s words, “change the way you use a computer.” …
open firmware’s default catch
i was upgrading a friend’s iMac G3* to Mac OS X 10.3.9 today. after we rebooted, he was stuck in open firmware. after i typed mac-boot at the prompt, it said default catch and refused to proceed any further. the usual trick of >set-defaults >reset-all did not help. what did fix the problem was booting …