Paul Thorrott over at “SuperSite for Windows” posts part two of his Windows Vista Beta 1 vs. Mac OS X “Tiger”, breaking down the key parts that are to give two cents about. Best line out of the whole thing: My educated guess is that Vista won’t be as secure as OS X, however, because […]
Hot on the heels of my last rumination on the subject, the (so-called) rumors start flying about the next Mac mini release being A/V-oriented as something of an Apple PVR/media center device. TUAW and Gizmodo both follow-up on the ThinkSecret post that highlights the “Kaleidoscope” Mac mini as scheduled for release come MacWorld in January. […]
When Apple launched the Mac mini in January, it was done amid all sorts of speculation that it was going to be the “iHome” – – an Apple-branded media center. (Apparently, this is now an annual-ish thing.) Given recent events (i.e., the new iMac with FrontRow and now Microsoft’s Xbox360 launch) I think it may […]
A while back, when first exploring launchd, I mentioned the launchd editor from over at codepoetry. Today, however, I saw Lingon featured on TUAW. This is just something that they should have bundled with X.4 in the first place. Well, I’m excited. It seems to be pretty full featured w/ a UI that makes sense, […]
Prompted by this post on TUAW: draggable, re-arrangeable tabs auto-populating RSS bookmark collection (just prompt me when I visit the site “Add feed? Yes – No – Don’t Ask Again”) configurable search tool (different engines or custom search URLs like en.wikipedia.org) “Do you really want to close this window? (13 tabs open)” play nicer with […]
In OS X.3 “Panther” they (re?)introduced the sidebar. Neat. Easy way of getting around. What they didn’t mention is that these sidebar items are aliases with relative paths. Say you have two volumes, “Main” and “Remote”. Main is where you do most of your work, store most of your files. Remote is for archiving, back-ups, […]
Tried to resist the temptation but it just didn’t work… The whole “One More Thing” Apple special event round-up (almost all of it more/less via TUAW): iPod now featuring video capabilities. Is anyone really surprised? I still think it’s silly. Are folks going to watch copies of Lost and Desperate Housewives on the subway? Maybe […]
Recent experimenting with launchd led us to today’s (failed) experiment in the on-going “SyncTunes” project. (See previous references here and here.) Short version: have tunesync-in.sh activate via launchd when a user logged in, copying a master $ituneslib file over to $userlib. Then, while the user was logged in and playing songs through iTunes, tunesync-out.sh would […]
Trouble sleeping last night. Dreams that aren’t worth posting here because all they really seem to be are chilling previews of some stuff scheduled for Friday. So instead I jumped out of bed and decided to try and cross off one of the things on my to do list. AFP548 had a great article that […]
KetelOne’s Revenge continues… Picking up where we left off… replacement hard drive arrived today removed the bad drive (once again, watch out for that “HD HEAT” cable on the side – – delicate little wire!) installed the new drive booted to the blinking “?” folder (as expected, since there’s no OS on the drive yet) […]