Category " Apple Mac"

Alas, Firefox on OSX has been really good, and thanks to a TekZilla podcast, it’s even better. A major gripe I’ve had for quite a while, was Firefox’s inability to tab to dropdowns. Apparently, the boys at Mozilla are pulling the keyboard preferences and applying them to form fields. As you can see in this [...]

So, last night in haste I wrote a pensive rm -rf command which, if my previous find statement was correct, should have worked fine. Well, it didn’t. There I was, with an empty directory, cursing every expletive I could think of. I broke down, and bought FileSalvage, making sure I had booted into the external [...]

It was Wednesday morning. The night before SuperDuper smart updates at it’s regularly scheduled time, and Apple update runs. I haven’t updated to 10.5.4 yet. Check all the boxes, close all open programs, update. I slept well that night. Walking into my office that morning the screen was dark as normal. Repeated presses on the [...]

I’m sure this has already been heavily blogged, but I just noticed a new option in my “speakers” pull down available on the bottom right of iTunes if you have an Airport Express. So effectively, probably according to bandwidth restrictions, you can have the song playing at your computer in one room, and in any [...]

After working on my machine for quite a bit today, I started getting crashes in certain programs, and I haven’t seen this pre-10.4.4. The following was seen in Console.app: CGSResolveShmemReference : offset exceeds bounds And it did so for several apps, Firefox, GLterm, iSync (wouldn’t even run). A simple logout and login seems to have [...]