Friday, December 7th, 2007
(Via MacWorld.)
After you’ve saved a search in 10.5, you can access it in many ways, including the very-convenient SEARCH FOR section of the Finder’s sidebar. However, what if you want to edit the saved search after you recall it? You can do so, but it’s not obvious how—Option-clicking the search ...
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Wednesday, December 5th, 2007
(Via Hawk Wings.)
Like many people (but apparently not all), when I drag an item from the Finder to Mail.app’s Dock icon, it launches two messages, the first without the attachment, the second one with it.
Obviously, this is annoying and I have always regarded it as just that. However, today, a ...
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Wednesday, December 5th, 2007
(Via The Mac Observer.)
The Mac OS X firewall can block some or all inbound connections.
However, to be 100 percent secure, the vigilant Mac OS X user should
also monitor and manage outbound connections. Little Snitch is one program that can
do that
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Friday, November 23rd, 2007
I'm at the end of testing for a new schedule bootable backup routine. It's pretty simple, involving Carbon Copy Cloner and two two-line shell scripts.
Though I like Time Machine quite a bit, it has one gaping hole - the inability to make bootable backups. I've already been through the process ...
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Wednesday, November 21st, 2007
(Via Mac OS X Hints.)
If you want to assign X11 to a Space, go to the Spaces System Preferences panel, and choose to add an application (click the plus sign). Instead of choosing X11.app from the Utilities folder, press Shift-Command-G to bring up the Go to Folder text entry box. ...
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Wednesday, November 21st, 2007
(Via Lifehacker.)
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Wednesday, November 21st, 2007
(Via The Mac Observer.)
Mac OS X 10.5 includes some pre-made Smart Folders that find all of the images, movies, and documents on your computer. That's a really cool feature -- unless some of those files aren't supposed to be seen. If you need to keep Spotlight from including certain directories ...
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Wednesday, November 21st, 2007
(Via Deep Thought.)
It’s been almost a month since Leopard made its debut and I’m just now writing up the conclusion to my review. What gives, you ask? I wrote it as several parts over about three weeks. I actually planned a couple more sections, but stuff happens, time marches on, ...
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Sunday, November 18th, 2007
(Via myapplemenu.)
by Richard Stiennon, ZDNet.com
The Scobleizer vents his frustration with the Apple Brand Juggernaut in his post today. He seems upset that Mac users are so vehement in defense of Apple products. Well, after years of seeing the Wintel duopoly dominate PC development it’s about time a contender is creeping ...
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Friday, November 16th, 2007
(Via Editors' Notes Weblog.)
Rob Griffiths is having a harder time finding commands lately, and he thinks Apple's failure to stick to its own Human Interface Guidelines is the main reason why.
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