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Love the Mac > July 14, 2005

Fix It Up Good

[[BrockLi] Home] As mentioned earlier, I stopped into the Apple Store this weekend to see if they'd replace the screen on my iBook. The border around the screen had a couple small cracks in it that appeared to be a result of stress from some components inside pushing their way out.

Apple : 2005.07.13 04.33.43

[Garoo - Blog] I can understand that the Dashboard’s developers wouldn’t want to delete the code that makes the widget well appear and the widgets above move around, but when you’re developing an OS (and for Apple, moreover) that’s not a sufficient excuse to add an extra layer of complexity to the interface, instead of simply replacing it with a simple manager. What fundamental reason is there to prevent users from drag-and-dropping widgets straight from the manager to the Dashboard?

Posted at 09:07 AM

July 14, 2005

Fix It Up Good

Posted at 09:10 AM

Apple : 2005.07.13 04.33.43

Posted at 09:07 AM

Exploring Apple's Widget Manager in OS 10.4.2

[The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)] Apple released OS 10.4.2 on Tuesday, bringing with it a number of goodies, like the new Widget manager. Widget manager allows you to do a number of useful things, including disabling widgets, deleting widgets and "testing out"

Posted at 09:06 AM

OS X Tiger 10.4.2 released

[Kerry's Ramblings :: Main Page] Apple has released OS X Tiger 10.4.2 today and it is available through Software Update. Per the information on Software Update (from Apple), here is what has changed with this update...

Posted at 09:04 AM

Mac OS X Update 10.4.2

[morituri.tonight] It includes fixes for: - file sharing using AFP and SMB/CIFS network file services - single sign-on authentication and reliable access to Active Directory servers - autologin for managed user accounts - AirPort and wireless access - Core Graphics, Core Audio, Core Image, including updatedATI and NVIDIA graphics drivers - Finder updates including finding on Kind and using Slideshow - synchronizing your iDisk with .Mac - installation reliability - managing Dashboard widgets - Address Book, Automator, iCal, iChat, Mail, Safari, and Stickies applications - compatibility with third party applications and devices For more information, go to the Apple Knowledge Base entry.

Posted at 09:03 AM

July 11, 2005

Starting Over, For The First Time

[Selfgratification: Do It Yourself] (Aside: this is a job I used to have to do every so often with my Windows machines, because they needed it, this was just because I had never set up a Mac from scratch before and wanted to.) First up, I backed up selected parts of my home directory to the hard drive on my XP box (which is about the only use it gets these days) using PsyncX, then popped in the OS X install disc and off I went. It was acually such a painless experience that it’s not really worth writing about”¦ about 40 minutes later I was downloading system updates and messing about.

Posted at 11:23 AM

My Baby is Back

[Skockination] Knowing that it wasn’t a hard drive problem, I figured it was a logic board problem as that is what a few people seemed to say out on the message boards. It was especially confusing because too many stupid people weren’t differentiating between the G3 iBook and the G4 iBook.

Posted at 11:20 AM

Damn you AGAIN iBook

[ What’s On Mikey’s Mind Ver. 5.0] Off to Durham to the Apple store. My screen if flickering again and it just got fixed a month ago. I’m just a tad bit peeved. EDIT I get down there...

Posted at 11:12 AM

Macosx 10.4 tiger server - virtual hosts

[steve cooley presents] The server documentation doesn’t explicitly connect the dots by telling you that you have to turn on DNS in order for apache virtual hosting to work. Create a DNS record for each of your domains in the DNS control panel in server admin.

Posted at 11:10 AM

Automate your Life Poster

[The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)] Automator was just what Jim needed, and so he went to work to create a workflow that would do most of the nitty gritty work for you. I think it would be nice if the workflow could do even more, like let you pick the 96 photos on the fly, but I think that is a limitation of Automator's and not of Jim's imagination.

Posted at 11:08 AM

July 09, 2005

Big News: Apple Switching to Intel!

[Richard Bluestein's Weblog] Maybe they see the future as Apple primarily becoming a software only house - after all what would the iPod be without iTunes? Or maybe becasue of the success of the Mac mini they think they can take on the PC manufactures at their own game?

Posted at 12:09 PM

Monument to American Consumerism

[[BrockLi] Home] As of 9:30(ish) this morning, I am licensed by New York State to ride a motorcycle. I think my dad won $10 from mom on that one.

Posted at 12:02 PM

Cocktail updated to version 3.6.2

[The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)] One of my favorite utilities for Mac OS X is Cocktail, and

Posted at 12:00 PM

Widget Manager in Tiger 10.4.2

[Kerry's Ramblings :: Main Page] The guys at TopMac have a screenshot of the new widget manager in upcoming Tiger 10.4.2 update.

Posted at 11:57 AM

Batch Document Conversion with OSX

[ Blog - John Resig] Consider this: You have a text document, borrowed from the repository at Project Gutenberg, but you’re friends refuse to read anything that isn’t a Word doc - and you don’t own Word. No problem, just run your text file through this program and you should have your desired result.

Posted at 11:54 AM

July 08, 2005

No Powerbook G5... Ever!

[Richard Bluestein's Weblog] This week, Freescale (former Motorola’s processors division), announced the upcoming release of the MPC7448 PowerPC G4 processor (see specs here) which will be available by October 2005. The new PowerPC G4 chip will consume less power and will be able to run in higher clock speeds.

Posted at 02:28 PM

IBM and Apple

[david ascher] I’ve been playing around on a beautiful Powerbook and falling a little bit in love, so I went to the Apple store to find out what the damage would be. Check out what happens if you mistype www.appple.ca!

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Posted at 02:27 PM

WoW

[Northwest Noise] Anyone know if I can install World of Warcraft on my Powerbook (t d f), and then say, I'm without my Powerbook for a long period of time, install it on a Windows PC and still play? Is there an activation code specific to each computer?

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Posted at 02:23 PM

Help with winning the iTunes Music Store contest

[The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)] It's a fully editable (AppleScript Studio/Xcode required) project that displays the estimated current total of tracks sold on the iTunes Music Store. It also estimates the time of the next milestone sale (every 100,000th track).

Posted at 01:58 PM

Moto v265, Dashboard, and more.

[Red & Yellow Make Green] If my family was not under a Family plan with Alltel, and if the reception with Alltel wasnt so good here, I would switch to someone like Cingular and get a much better phone for the same price. Once I got my phone home, the first thing I did was head to Ebay to look for a cable to hook it up to my computer (like I said before, having bluetooth would have made this really simple), and no I wasn’t going to spend the $60 for the cable and Windows-only software from Motorola.

Posted at 01:56 PM

July 07, 2005

Some of you already have the "iTunes Phone"

[Late Night With Mr. X & Just Julie] (On a side note, I learned what "Motorola" stands for in a newspaper article: The "moto" comes from motor, and the "ola" comes from Victrola. "Whatever the details of Lear's selling job, the keys to the Stereo-8's spectacular success seems to have been linked to getting the backing of both Ford (t d f) and the recording industry.

Posted at 10:19 AM

Writing, Lab Work, Packing, & New Love

[changelog @ tengrrl.com] Today's Inbox Ideas section is on rap and hip-hop, which tied to an LA Times article. I turned my draft in just before The Daily Show last night...

Posted at 10:15 AM

Dead, again.

[engadgeted.net] He literally couldn’t take the heat anymore. Whenever the fan came on, he would slow down to the point of being unusable.

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Posted at 10:11 AM

Weekend Preparation

[[BrockLi] Home] I'll be heading home tomorrow evening after work so I can get up first thing Friday morning and take the motorcycle road test. There's an Apple store in the mall near home, so I'm going to stop in there and see if I can't get my iBook fixed - there are a couple small cracks in the edge around the screen.

Posted at 10:10 AM

Danny Goodman's OS X Technology Guide to Dashboard

[The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)] I've spent the morning thumbing through SpiderWorks' OS X Technology Guide to Dashboard by Danny Goodman, released this week. I've always found Goodman's books useful, and this is no exception.

Posted at 10:00 AM

July 06, 2005

Cafe Diem Stumbles

[ruk.ca | peter rukavina's weblog] After several summers of really bad customer service from Cafe Diem it looked, this year, like they were getting things right: lots of friendly staff, free Wifi, a good selection of fresh pastries, and a renovated interior that makes the right subtle corrections to the interior space.

Posted at 01:44 PM

Widget watch: Make a Pass

[The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)] Widget watch: Make a Pass Posted Jul 5, 2005, 1:00 PM ET by Dave Caolo Filed under: Software No, not that kind of pass. Andrew Hedges'...

Posted at 01:41 PM

WP Tiger

[Every Tomorrow] WP Tiger July 5th, 2005 I blogged awhile ago about WP Tiger Administration”¦ Apparently there’s been some improvements since I last tried it”¦...

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Posted at 01:38 PM

July 05, 2005

A tale of a harddisk failure & ensuing data rescue

[engadgeted.net] The older i grow the more i appreciate the soothing confidence a terminal can instill. No matter how fucked up your system is, as long as you can get a terminal running all is not lost.

Posted at 03:53 PM

PyObjC First Steps

[from __future__ import *] PyObjC 1.3.7 fixes a few bugs (particularly with Xcode 2.1 templates), has a more complete wrapping of Mac OS X 10.4 system frameworks (DiscRecording, SenTestingKit, SecurityFoundation), and adds a new TinyURLService example (which converts URLs on the pasteboard to tinyurl.com equivalents).

Posted at 03:52 PM

BBC Dashboard Widget

[ruk.ca | peter rukavina's weblog] Activate your BBC Listen Live widget to hear live radio from nine of the BBC’s national radio stations without the need to turn a switch or load a webpage. And if that’s not enough - why not pull out multiple widgets to represent different radio stations that you regularly listen to?

Posted at 03:48 PM

Apple to Use Intel Microprocessors Beginning in 2006

[that nanochurch blog] At its Worldwide Developer Conference today, Apple® announced plans to deliver models of its Macintosh® computers using Intel® microprocessors by this time next year, and to transition all of its Macs to using Intel microprocessors by the end of 2007.

Posted at 03:44 PM

July 04, 2005

Book’s back

[engadgeted.net] Yeah, i could have removed that before, but somehow i’m reluctant to mess with pre-installed software, so it’s nice apple got rid of some old junk in default tiger installations. Note to self: when restoring mail out of a backed-up library folder with lots of emails in your account inboxes, set up your accounts first, then import your old mailboxes and move messages to their appropriate locations.

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Posted at 11:45 AM

Monolingual and Download Squad

[Neil's World - Not the world you expected] One of the new and interesting weblogs recently added to the Weblogs, Inc network is Download Squad which concentrates on software for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. Today it mentioned Monolingual, an interesting looking open source utility for Mac OS X users.

Posted at 11:43 AM

ArtRage for Mac

[PigPog Blog] ArtRage is finally available for MacOS X. You’ll need a graphics tablet to get the best out of it, as the pressure sensitive stuff is what gives ArtRage its feel.

Posted at 11:39 AM

Love the Mac > July 14, 2005

Fix It Up Good

Apple : 2005.07.13 04.33.43

July 14, 2005

Fix It Up Good

Apple : 2005.07.13 04.33.43

Exploring Apple's Widget Manager in OS 10.4.2

OS X Tiger 10.4.2 released

Mac OS X Update 10.4.2

July 11, 2005

Starting Over, For The First Time

My Baby is Back

Damn you AGAIN iBook

Macosx 10.4 tiger server - virtual hosts

Automate your Life Poster

July 09, 2005

Big News: Apple Switching to Intel!

Monument to American Consumerism

Cocktail updated to version 3.6.2

Widget Manager in Tiger 10.4.2

Batch Document Conversion with OSX

July 08, 2005

No Powerbook G5... Ever!

IBM and Apple

WoW

Help with winning the iTunes Music Store contest

Moto v265, Dashboard, and more.

July 07, 2005

Some of you already have the "iTunes Phone"

Writing, Lab Work, Packing, & New Love

Dead, again.

Weekend Preparation

Danny Goodman's OS X Technology Guide to Dashboard

July 06, 2005

Cafe Diem Stumbles

Widget watch: Make a Pass

WP Tiger

July 05, 2005

A tale of a harddisk failure & ensuing data rescue

PyObjC First Steps

BBC Dashboard Widget

Apple to Use Intel Microprocessors Beginning in 2006

July 04, 2005

Book’s back

Monolingual and Download Squad

ArtRage for Mac

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