∅ the empty set

Attend a rehearsal of “Glory” - Ballet du Grand Théâtre de Genève

Hiya... how did you hear 'bout that (so I can learn next time too!)
tx.

Can't select the Photo Album Camera Roll from Instagram

Hey guys. I have a huge problem. I just bought an IPhone 4 about a month ago. And for some reason when I go to view the photos I had taken. I can't view them at all. Is there any way you guys can help me? Thanks

New self image

Oh.
Thankxxxxx
(*blush*)

New self image

Like it :) you're still the same: beautiful !

Can't select the Photo Album Camera Roll from Instagram

On my iPod touch That I got just to day brand new I take a picture with the camera then it saves and erases right then. What should I do

Can't select the Photo Album Camera Roll from Instagram

I have this happen to me a lot... Thank you everyone for the help! I hate not being able to see my photos... Problem resolved, and I'm back to shamelessly copying other artists! XD

Can't select the Photo Album Camera Roll from Instagram

I have this happen to me a lot... Thank you everyone for the help! I hate not being able to see my photos... Problem resolved, and I'm back to shamelessly copying other artists! XD

Can't select the Photo Album Camera Roll from Instagram

How can i put apple logo in Instagram.....help anyone???

Using Tumblr as a travel log

Tumblr in my opinion is the best way to share when you are traveling, the tumblr app on android is so easy to use, and within seconds you can write and publish your post, great!

Pushing Fantastical to the right

Thanks for the info: I was looking for this exact solution and it works like a charm. It's nice of you to have taken the time to share this tips with the rest of us.

Best regards,

P.

Can't select the Photo Album Camera Roll from Instagram

Thanks to Mike B#4 It worked, much better than going through the apple help manual. I used the home and power button at the same time. Turned off IPhone and restarted. There the camera was!!!

Can't select the Photo Album Camera Roll from Instagram

Help please. On my iphone 4, when i tap on my camera roll i get booted out to my home screen so am unable to view my photos. Any info would be appreciated please.

Can't select the Photo Album Camera Roll from Instagram

Fixed the camera roll inaccessible problem. Thanks to all who post problems and solutions.

Can't select the Photo Album Camera Roll from Instagram

I love this aspect of internet. Help is just a tap away. Thanks for the great fix on the hidden photos!

What is your notepad bag?

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Empty set symbol

What an interesting post, and approach! Priscila Luken

Can't select the Photo Album Camera Roll from Instagram

i can't see some of photo on instagram with a new version2.1
please help

Pushing Fantastical to the right

David, many thanks for your kind and prompt reply!

For sure I was missing something, I misread what is contained in the latest gray box. I apologize.

Thanks again!

-- lS.

Pushing Fantastical to the right

@Luca Download the Fantastical menu extra from http://flexibits.com/fantastical/FantasticalMenu_1.0.2.zip, double-click the menu extra, then hold the command key down and click and drag to move the menu extra into place.

Pushing Fantastical to the right

Dear Sirs,

I share the point of view of the writer: IMHO calendar menu should be close to the clock a to the right-most end of the menu bar.

I tried what you suggest (: double-click, hold command key, click-n-drag) but this doesn't work: opens and closes the view, then command-click-n-hold opens once more the calendar but the menubar icon is not moving.

Am I missing something?

I'm using 1.0.3 release; in the lower right side corner of the "About Fantastical" window I can read a small "58".

Many thanks in advance for any advice you will share.

Best regards,

-- lS.

Can't select the Photo Album Camera Roll from Instagram

I was having the same problem with the photos not saving to my phone. Just toggled the switches back and forth in Settings. It's working fine now!

http://help.instagram.com/customer/portal/articles/95752-photos-not-saving-to-camera-roll-on-iphone

Can't select the Photo Album Camera Roll from Instagram

I have the same problem.my photos from instagram are not loading in camerarol:(

Can't select the Photo Album Camera Roll from Instagram

I have the same problem.my photos from instagram are not loading in camerarol:(

Can't select the Photo Album Camera Roll from Instagram

I have just updated the instagram app and now when i use my own photos to filter and save, they wont save on my iphone photo album. How can i fix this?

Can't select the Photo Album Camera Roll from Instagram

Thank you sooooo much I was sooooo annoyed!!!

Auberge du Cheval Blanc du Carre d'Aval

Sorry to hear that. I don't leave in Geneva anymore but ... I was born "in" that restaurant and growed up upstairs... My parents managed and worked there from 1971 until 1986.
Its like my home

Its true ... It is a magical place and I hope it will be again

Gisèle

Watch that trailing slash

Thank you,this is just what i needed.I have a presentation that I am just now working on, and I have been trying to find such information. Coconut Oil Plant.

Can't select the Photo Album Camera Roll from Instagram

This worked for me, but I agree Apple needs a fix

Can't select the Photo Album Camera Roll from Instagram

@ Denise and anyone else who said how to fix this (: My god, thank youu so muchh, your a legend, i thought it was going to be stuck like that (: thankk you once again.

How to fix a Nik Software plug-in crash in Snow Leopard

Thanks alot I had to get my arial font from
http://web.nickshanks.com/fonts/microsoft-core-web-fonts
if any one else needs it.

Watch that trailing slash

This is a really excellent read for me. Must agree that you are one of the best bloggers I ever saw. Thanks for posting this useful article

Can't select the Photo Album Camera Roll from Instagram

thanks so much for sharing!it worked!! this is sooo helpful

Can't select the Photo Album Camera Roll from Instagram

I had the same problem today-thanks for the help, Denise! It worked for me!!

Can't select the Photo Album Camera Roll from Instagram

Same thing just happened to me.
My daughter showed me that I had to double-click
on the HOME button, hold down an icon, and shut
down the Photo app (and any other left open).
This will put the app right again.

Can't select the Photo Album Camera Roll from Instagram

@Denise, thanks so much! Worked!

Can't select the Photo Album Camera Roll from Instagram

@Denise

*Confirmed*. Thanks a bunch. I just did that and you're right, it does work. Was wondering if this was going to be permanent, but... Yay.

For those new to iPods, home button is the square on the front, and the power button is on the top right of the iPod.

Can't select the Photo Album Camera Roll from Instagram

" Double tap the home button to bring up the multi-tasking bar, tap & hold the "Photos" icon until it starts to wiggle, tap the red minus sign to close it. Tap the home button when finished. See if doing this fixes things. "
it works!

Can't select the Photo Album Camera Roll from Instagram

i tapped on photos

Can't select the Photo Album Camera Roll from Instagram

Hi I pressed something when i viewed albums on my ipod touch generation 4 32 GB and when iviewed them again it had gone down and when i scroll up i cant tap on camera roll can you help me?

Can't select the Photo Album Camera Roll from Instagram

David, the permanent solution is to do a soft reset of your phone. Hold down the 'home' button and at the same time press and hold the power button. The screen will go blank and then you'll get the Apple logo. Give it a minute and you'll get up your usual log in screen. That should sort it.

Can't select the Photo Album Camera Roll from Instagram

I am having the same issue. I just discovered it today. It is annoying. I just updated my iPhone, so I think that's what made it start occurring. I hope they fix this problem soon.

Safari for iPhone ignores viewport settings on .mobi domains

Hi David,

thanks for your article - I discovered that issue today, too.
I'll let my domain redirect to this article until it's closed…

Cheers
Max

http://www.79point9.mobi/

Watch that trailing slash

Thanks for the article.

Empty set symbol

Argh! I NEED that empty set symbol, and I use the Ø for other purposes (like writing words in Norwegian).

Where did it go?

How to fix a Nik Software plug-in crash in Snow Leopard

You're welcome @Norm - glad it worked for you :)

How to fix a Nik Software plug-in crash in Snow Leopard

This worked for me! Thanks for the tip!

Safari for iPhone ignores viewport settings on .mobi domains

@mrfusion: sorry to hear that. Thanks for your comment.

Safari for iPhone ignores viewport settings on .mobi domains

Interesting. Had to discover it the hard way today.

Can't select the Photo Album Camera Roll from Instagram

Thanks for your comment and for the link Chris.
I came to the same conclusion, and that's what I'd meant by "quitting the Photo app from the active apps bar".
:)

Can't select the Photo Album Camera Roll from Instagram

See this link from Apple for a solution - I had the same problem. Jesi900 answers it:

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2783772&tstart=0

Ten already

Thankxx :)

Ten already

...and she can be proud to have a dad like you :)

Revisited

Fantástico! Superbe! Génial!
#freeversion

Safari for iPhone ignores viewport settings on .mobi domains

@Chris Blown: you are right. Thanks for your comment.

As of today, I still haven't found any documentation explaining this behaviour.

Safari for iPhone ignores viewport settings on .mobi domains

I'm glad I found this post, I thought I was going mad!

While I understand the reasoning behind why Apple might do this, changing behaviour purely based on the domain is madness.

You should at least be able to override it. I'd suggest the presence of a meta viewport should tell Safari "hey, I know what I am doing, let me be". If the meta viewport is missing sure then lock it down to 100% or whatever its _actually_ doing.

New Mac setup log

That must be a fast computer… Thanks for sharing this!

The iTunes Store's missing songs

it is a trap, most of music purchased on itunes still cant play on my MP3 player, they are still drm protected. i have to convert itunes music to mp3 with some music converter, which really takes time and effort. i hate itunes.

iPod Touch first impressions

I have found out to my cost that the devices have been sabotaged in such a way that only ITunes can be used on only one computer for one device. Also the players are unusable from Linux (Encrypted
protocol) so that it is impossible to use them with winamp + mlipod as in the past.

iPod Touch first impressions

Ipod touch is a great device. I love the display too. Resolution is great. But the problems with languages aren't funny...

How to fix a Nik Software plug-in crash in Snow Leopard

NIK Silver Efex has been crashing my CS3 ever since I upgraded to Snow Leopard. I've tried reinstalling everything, downloading a new copy of Silver Efex, removing duplicate fonts, creating a new login user on my Mac (both suggestions from NIK Support), and now I've tried your recommendation. But, NIK still crashes CS3. If I remove NIK completely (something NIK's "Uninstall" feature somehow neglects to do), CS3 runs great.

Is this problem common with NIK and Snow Leopard? They don't seem to want to get back to me on this anymore.

Using Tumblr as a travel log

Thanks @Janik for your comments.

Never thought of that. I'll take a look at how I can make a Tumblr theme out of Sravana and let you know.

Using Tumblr as a travel log

Hi,

I'm preparing my trip to india, nepal and cambodja! Off course a nice travel blog is good to keep the people at home up to date.

I'm looking for a nice theme now, and came across your sravana.us! I really like it, any chance I can use your homemade theme?

Greetings,

J

ø How to Check if Your Gmail Account Has Been Hacked

Great tip. Thanks a lot for sharing.

Your latest t-shirt

Dear sir/mam,
We are a manufacturing company of Bangladesh .We produce all kinds of T-shits, Polo-piques, Tank -tops , Boxers . Woven items : Shirts ,pants, blouses ,Jeans and all kinds of sweaters like:3GG,5GG, 7GG,10GG,12GG for men’s , ladies and children’s. We are interested to business with you and your company .Hope you will be reply us as soon as possible .
Thanks and begrds,
Bashar

Disappointing iPad 3G data plans in Switzerland

Orange published their data plans yesterday:
http://www1.orange.ch/residential_internet_ipad.html

Using Tumblr as a travel log

Hi there,

You Tumblrs are great for showcasing the right away of using travel guide from net. Well, the polymorphic connectivity is one of the best things I liked over here.

Thanks
Abraham

Safari for iPhone ignores viewport settings on .mobi domains

@Ronan Cremin: thanks for confirming this.

The reason why I mentionned the viewport meta tag, is that whatever the settings were (size, scaling, etc.) Safari for iPhone had its own rendering interpretation when the page was requested from the .mobi TLD. The rendering was different when requested from the .com TLD (or the IP address) - namely, the viewport settings were honored.

Thanks again for your comments.

Safari for iPhone ignores viewport settings on .mobi domains

David,

I have to admit that on first reading this I thought there was no way that it could be true.

So we tried testing it here at dotMobi and can confirm that your experience is repeatable—we tried the same page with a .mobi address, a .com address and a local intranet address (no top level domain suffix) on a 3GS.

That said, the effect doesn't appear to have anything to do with the viewport tag—we experienced the same effect without it. It's difficult to guess what Apple is at here, and why they choose to render the page slightly differently based on the TLD. On the plus side it does suggest that they are trying to optimize the rendering of the page if they believe it's mobile-friendly, which sounds like a good thing.

Interesting sleuthing, thanks for sharing.

Ronan Cremin, dotMobi

Safari for iPhone ignores viewport settings on .mobi domains

Wow, that's really weird, but incredibly handy to know - especially like you say - not being an obvious thing to debug or understand. I wonder what made them implement it like that?

.Mac calendar synchronisation problem in Leopard

I had this same problem with Contacts [only].

Stephanie's post in #3 above worked for me also. I had tried a number of steps in the Apple forums.

My mistake, I believe, is in my reluctance to replace the MobileMe data in the cloud with the data that was on my Mac Mini [Snow Leopard] (my "sync/push server"). The Mac Pro (Leopard) silently stopped synching Contacts with the rest of my stuff - iPhone, Mac Mini, Macbook Pro.

Using Stephanie's one minute suggestion I have resolved the problem. Had that not worked then I'd have had to run through the full solution in this blog.

Thanks very much all. It has saved me days of grief :-)

Transcending CSS

Great book, helped my CSS a whole lot.

Watch that trailing slash

I am lost, I noticed google webmaster tools has me indexed with the trailing slash half of the time and because I am using wordpress on a windows server I am having a hard time fixing the issue. So I am trying to figure out if I should (for SEO purposes) use the slash even though none of my backlinks point that way.
Any help on this would be much appreciated.
thanks

Mail 10.6 “Copy Address” fix

@Alexander MacDougall: did you copy the whole command?

defaults write com.apple.mail AddressesIncludeNameOnPasteboard -bool NO

The file is located in /usr/bin/defaults which should be in your path. Try,

/usr/bin/defaults write com.apple.mail AddressesIncludeNameOnPasteboard -bool NO

(all on the same line)

Mail 10.6 “Copy Address” fix

When I do this I get a message that says "command not found". Suggestions?

I ♥ my {international} Kindle

@Mary: the only way to activate your Kindle (International version) if you are out of the US is to use Audible's File Manager software.

The caveat is that it runs only on Windows, so if you are using a Mac, you'll need to run it under Parallels or VMWare.

The problem is that web browsing is deactivated (restricted) out of the US, so that the Kindle can't reach Audible's servers for activation.

More info on the Kindle's forum http://ro.ess.li/kindle/audible/

I ♥ my {international} Kindle

Great to find this blog! I am also trying to install an audio Kindle book for my daughter-- suggestions, advice??

iPhone battery packs: Mophie Juice Pack Air vs FastMac iV

@steve I would definitively get a Mophie Juice Pack Air if I was you.

iPhone battery packs: Mophie Juice Pack Air vs FastMac iV

ok i have a iphone3g and take alot of pictures but keep my phone in my pocket at school an dont want to get cought.overall my batter always dies because im on the bus for an hour while listening to music and texting and playing games what one would you buy?

Gentle upgrade to Snow Leopard (Mac OS 10.6)

Thanks for the great info. On 10/30/09 I downloaded all the required Canon drivers and applications to use Pixma MP980 in Snow Leopard.

The Canon page is quite confusing, with many different software packages. I called Canon tech support (1-800-OK-CANON), and they guided me through the selection of which packages I needed to print from/scan from/scan to Pixma MP980 Snow Leopard.

Get your MacBook to sleep smart

@grj I'm not sure, I need to test a border case such as the one you mention.

Try contacting the author, he might have an answer?

iPhone battery packs: Mophie Juice Pack Air vs FastMac iV

@Doug I believe the only one that could be compatible with a car mount woud be the FastMac. But then it would depend on the form factor of the car mount.

The FastMac mounts with the iPhone in a Dock.

The Mophie's lack the iPod connector.

.Mac calendar synchronisation problem in Leopard

@Michael you're welcome - glad it worked out for you :)

iPhone battery packs: Mophie Juice Pack Air vs FastMac iV

Hi,
I have an iPhone 3GS and am considering buying an external battery pack for it. From what I've read above it appears that the Mophie Juice Pack Air is about 2 ounces, while the Mophie Juice Pack is about 3 ounces, and the FastMac IV is about 4 ounces. I don't own any of these prodcts, yet, but don't feel that the weight factor is significant for me. I wish Apple built the iPhone with a faster CPU and more RAM and the ability to handle media on the Adobe Flash Player, thus justifying the need for more "horsepower under the hood."
I am concerned about safety of my 32GB device and compatibility of any of these three batteries with a car mount.

.Mac calendar synchronisation problem in Leopard

thanks a lot for your writedown, worked perfect for me!

Michael, Hamburg

Get your MacBook to sleep smart

How does Smartsleep react to a situation when you close your Mac at say 22% battery power and let it closed for a weekend? Is it that smart to wake up and hibernate, or does the battery run out of power?
I'm just considerig an install. Thanks!

Get your MacBook to sleep smart

Installing SmartSleep on my Dell Mini 9 (10.5.8) fixed its sleep problem :)

Spaces matter in IE 7's conditional statements

The last option by keed worked for me as well. The two blank lines made the cond. comment lines disappear. Thanks a lot!

Gentle upgrade to Snow Leopard (Mac OS 10.6)

Found a good list of things REMOVED from Snow Leopard maintained by Jesper:
http://waffle.wootest.net/2009/09/05/removed-snow-leopard/

Gentle upgrade to Snow Leopard (Mac OS 10.6)

@W Boston: you're right. Rogue Amoeba maintains a list of their 10.6 compatible applications online at http://www.rogueamoeba.com/status/

Compatibility for AudioHijack Pro is "coming" (No Instant Hijack).

Gentle upgrade to Snow Leopard (Mac OS 10.6)

My AudiaHijack Pro was not compatible and wasn’t upgraded, in fact on your list of Snow Leopard Compatibility List. apps it indicated it wasn’t compatible and an upgrade was forth coming. Also Snow Leopard didn’t create a root folder to indicate which apps weren’t compatible. I discover those apps when I use them ie. . . TuneTools . . ..

iPhone battery packs: Mophie Juice Pack Air vs FastMac iV

@Prashant: no, I do carry it around when I travel for longer than a day. It weights 115g vs 56g for the Juice Pack Air.

Up to each and everyone to figure out if the difference is significative…
;)

iPhone battery packs: Mophie Juice Pack Air vs FastMac iV

Very nice review david !

Is factmac so heavy u actually can't carry it around ?

My 2 cents worth of iPhone tips for Switzerland

Just thought you'd like to know in case you want to revisit and review:
Recent Versions, Press Releases MobileSyncBrowser 3.0 is the latest and most advanced version of the iPhone backup utility. Reviews for MobileSyncBrowser have been consistently positive, and when a user encounters a glitch, MSB's developer, Vaughn S. Cordero, avails himself by phone or email to help the customer step by step. Who uses MSB? Setting aside the argument that it is better to have a backup and not need it, than to need it and not have it, the original MSB users ranged from business executives who need to keep track of and produce hard-copy evidence of their communications, to the iPhone owner whose device was stolen or broken, to concerned parents wanting to keep track of their children's online contacts and friendships, and there's a commercial version being developed for grand-scale use regarding levels of information gathering, geared towards people who need MSB for legal proceedings or investigations. MobileSyncBrowser 3.0, available adds compatibility with iPhone OS 3.0 and was completely rewritten to provide better performance and enhanced stability. Technical Contact: Vaughn S.Cordero, email audiobinder at mac dot com
MobileSyncBrowser 3.1b1 This upgraded version of the application is available as pre-release software and has been said to be "better, faster, and more stable". It appeared barely five weeks after the release of MobileSyncBrowser 3.0. This latest edition of MSB, provides a multi-threaded experience, and is noticeable more stable and faster than the previous generations. MSB 3.1b1, marks a second milestone, leveraging the modularity to add background processing and caching so there's no waiting involved due to the extended scanning required for MSB Plus features. 3.1b1 also presents a cache file to the device backups which speeds subsequent visits to an unchanged backup; it alsoincludes fixes for cosmetic reasons and functional purposes. These include an improved handling of similar and alphanumeric addresses in the SMS Convo Lists; improved navigation on systems with 9+ backups where portions of the Categories list would scroll up out of view making them seem "unavailable"; the user should know that single click, double click and alt-click actions have different responses and a little experimentation is required. MobileSyncBrowser (MSB) 3.1b1 has been tested for iPhone OS 3.1b2 and iTunes 8.2.1 compatibility. An important thing to remember is that, as a prerelease software, 3.1b1 could behave in surprising ways; users are encouraged to take sensible precautions before and while operating. The developer assumes no responsibility whatsoever for the use of prerelease software, so prospective clients should try out MSB before purchase in order to familiarize themselves with its interface, and ensure the application works for them. MSB 3.1b1 is stable and recommended for developers and general users who have specific issues with the current MSB. Feedback is always appreciated. Important note: 3.1 beta releases (e.g. 3.1b1) users should bear in mind that, as pre-release test copies, they are limited to running for a maximum of 15 days, when the next test cycle begins. If a user prefers the 3.1 versions, they should download release 3.1b2 currently on the beta page for MSB at http://mobilesyncbrowser.com/beta or download the current 3.0.11 release which does not have this testing limit.

Regina Spektor | Far

Kate Nash is actually a huge fan of Regina's and counts her as a major influence. I felt like sharing that. haha.. Check out Begin to Hope and Soviet Kitsch too!

and she's really awesome live. Good humored and very humble. :)

My 2 cents worth of iPhone tips for Switzerland

From the Public Relations Office of MobileSyncBrowser: As your website is in touch with the news about iPhone Technology and Applications, I'm writing to tell you about the release of MobileSync Browser (MSB) 3.0, as well as MSB 3.1b1, the exclusive pre-release version of this application.
MobileSyncBrowser is used to retrieve data automatically stored inside iTunes every time the iPhone was synchronized to the computer. MSB will recover all information, notes, contacts, call history and SMS messages, in case the device gets lost, broken or stolen. Visit MSB at: http://homepage.mac.com/vaughn/msync/
Users all over the world contact developer Vaughn S. Cordero to thank him and praise MSB for helping them evade the negative effects of losing all their information.
I'm attaching the press release and/or an informational document that outlines all the useful characteristics of MSB, now in its third generation. You are welcome to download the free trial; and please, would you kindly write a review or use the attached information to let your readers know about MobileSyncBrowser?
In addition to English, MSB includes Spanish, French and German support when it runs on systems in those languages. Be aware that MSB will work for iPhones in any language; however, the application contains those four to display the menus and the text. For instance, if you use MSB for an Italian iPhone, the information will display in Italian because MSB does not include that language support.
If you have questions or comments, please write back directly to Vaughn at audiobinder@mac.com, or reply to my email. Thank you for your help. -- Madeleine D. Quilichini, e: mad_copy@yahoo.com
MORE INFO:
Recent Versions, Press Releases MobileSyncBrowser 3.0 is the latest and most advanced version of the iPhone backup utility. Reviews for MobileSyncBrowser have been consistently positive, and when a user encounters a glitch, MSB's developer, Vaughn S. Cordero, avails himself by phone or email to help the customer step by step. Who uses MSB? Setting aside the argument that it is better to have a backup and not need it, than to need it and not have it, the original MSB users ranged from business executives who need to keep track of and produce hard-copy evidence of their communications, to the iPhone owner whose device was stolen or broken, to concerned parents wanting to keep track of their children's online contacts and friendships, and there's a commercial version being developed for grand-scale use regarding levels of information gathering, geared towards people who need MSB for legal proceedings or investigations. MobileSyncBrowser 3.0, available adds compatibility with iPhone OS 3.0 and was completely rewritten to provide better performance and enhanced stability. Technical Contact: Vaughn S.Cordero, email audiobinder at mac dot com
MobileSyncBrowser 3.1b1 This upgraded version of the application is available as pre-release software and has been said to be "better, faster, and more stable". It appeared barely five weeks after the release of MobileSyncBrowser 3.0. This latest edition of MSB, provides a multi-threaded experience, and is noticeable more stable and faster than the previous generations. MSB 3.1b1, marks a second milestone, leveraging the modularity to add background processing and caching so there's no waiting involved due to the extended scanning required for MSB Plus features. 3.1b1 also presents a cache file to the device backups which speeds subsequent visits to an unchanged backup; it alsoincludes fixes for cosmetic reasons and functional purposes. These include an improved handling of similar and alphanumeric addresses in the SMS Convo Lists; improved navigation on systems with 9+ backups where portions of the Categories list would scroll up out of view making them seem "unavailable"; the user should know that single click, double click and alt-click actions have different responses and a little experimentation is required. MobileSyncBrowser (MSB) 3.1b1 has been tested for iPhone OS 3.1b2 and iTunes 8.2.1 compatibility. An important thing to remember is that, as a prerelease software, 3.1b1 could behave in surprising ways; users are encouraged to take sensible precautions before and while operating. The developer assumes no responsibility whatsoever for the use of prerelease software, so prospective clients should try out MSB before purchase in order to familiarize themselves with its interface, and ensure the application works for them. MSB 3.1b1 is stable and recommended for developers and general users who have specific issues with the current MSB. Feedback is always appreciated.

Quadcam for iPhone OS 3.0 still unavailable

Apparently, EasyCam and CameraZoom updates have appeared on the Store. Let's hope Quadcam will be soon to follow.

.Mac calendar synchronisation problem in Leopard

Hooray! Also for me Stefanie's quick solution (in posting #3) was enough to fix my problem. I encourage others to try that one out.

.Mac calendar synchronisation problem in Leopard

Bless you Stephanie! Weeks of stress, resolved in a quick minute.

Norah Jones | Not too late

yes, i know, it's an incredible album. my favorite is the last song "not too late". it's just so stunningly beautiful.

.Mac calendar synchronisation problem in Leopard

Hooray! Stefanie's quick solution (in posting #3) was enough to fix my problem. I encourage others to try that one out.

iPhone v3.0 OS MMS and tethering

@chrisb63: yes, Swisscom has published the following:

Use your iPhone 3G as a modem.

Thanks to tethering, you will also be able to use your iPhone 3G as a modem for your notebook from 3 July 2009. Billing for data transmission will be based on the inclusive data volume of your surf subscription.

For frequent users, an additional data option with unlimited data volume**** (use in Switzerland) will be offered for CHF 59.- per month from the beginning of August 2009.

As of 3 July, you will be able to configure your iPhone 3G for tethering via iTunes free of charge.

**** In order to maintain service quality for all customers, Swisscom will reduce transfer speed if a customer exceeds 10GB in one month or will take other appropriate action. If there are signs of such activity, Swisscom reserves the right to exclude the subscription from normal private usage. Roaming charges are incurred for use abroad.

http://www.swisscom.ch/res/internet/mobilessurfen/iphone/index.htm?languageId=en#tethering
http://www.swisscom.ch/res/internet/mobilessurfen/iphone/index.htm?languageId=fr#tethering

iPhone v3.0 OS MMS and tethering

Do we know by now, how is this billed ?

iPhone v3.0 OS MMS and tethering

I've got this running on a 3G using the site you described. I'm finding however that tethered over USB the iPhone does not keep its charge level when using the internet but drains pretty quickly. This makes it of pretty limited use to me.

Anybody else have this problem or a solution?

iPhone v3.0 OS MMS and tethering

@chrisb63 You're welcome. It works on non jailbroken phones. It is just a new set of settings.

iPhone v3.0 OS MMS and tethering

thanks for the tip.
Just to make sure, this will work on a 3G iPhone not jailbroken ?

iPhone v3.0 OS MMS and tethering

@Coup's This is not clear yet, but I suspect (I hope) your quota will be used prior to billing you extra costs.

I believe this is what Swisscom does with their WiFi HotSpots. They deduct the used bandwidth from your quota before billing you for the remaining usage.

iPhone v3.0 OS MMS and tethering

Hi,
Somebody knows if Swisscom will account the data used using tethering in our 250 Mb quota or will we have to pay extra bucks?

iPhone v3.0 OS MMS and tethering

@andre Glad it worked for you.
Feel free to add it to your weblog.
Thanks for asking.

iPhone v3.0 OS MMS and tethering

Thanks for the great help... I mailed it and installed. Working great. I would like to know if I can add this info to my blog?

iPhone v3.0 OS MMS and tethering

@Christian Leu Oh, sorry about that. What browser (and version) are you using?

Welche Browser (und Version) verwenden Sie?

iPhone v3.0 OS MMS and tethering

Bei mir funktionieren die Lightbox Pop-Ups mit den einzelnen Bildern leider nicht.

An evening with Violeta

I promise this is my last post for Mario Benedetti. The best obituary in English I found for him came from Cuba (!). Here is the link if you are sitll interested...

http://www.cubasi.cu/desktopdefault.aspx?spk=160&clk=236038&lk=2&ck=120702&spka=35

An evening with Violeta

Finally I managed to find some Mario Benedetti translations to English. I believe poems are impossible to translate, they only could be rewritten sometimes. But you can have a taste below.

M. Benedetti was exiled from Uruguay for many years since he was a strong critic of military dictatorship and of the influence of US on Latin America. What I loved about him is that he stayed being optimistic until the end of his life.

So, another poem, now in English.

Don´t Save Yourself

Mario Benedetti

Don't Save yourself,
Don´t be immobile
On the edge of the road,
Don't freeze the joy,
Don't love with reluctance,
Don't save yourself now
or ever,
Don't save yourself,
Don't fill with calm,
Don't reserve of the world
Just a calm place,
Don't let fall your lids
Heavy as trials,
Don´t speak without lips,
Don't fall asleep without sleepiness,
Don't think of you without blood,
Don't judge yourself without time.

But if in spite of everything
You cannot avoid it
And you freeze the joy,
And you love with reluctance,
And you save yourself now,
And you full with calm,
And you reserve of the world
Just a calm place,
And you let fall your lids
Heavy as trials,
And you speak without lips,
And you fall asleep without sleepiness,
And you think yourself without blood,
And you judge yourself without time,
And you are immobile
On the edge of the road,
And you save yourself,
Then
Don't stay with me.

An evening with Violeta

Thanks for the poem Lavinia, it is beautiful even with my faint notions of Spanish.

It is all the more dramatic in view of the context.

An evening with Violeta

Forgot to tell that Mario Benedetti died the day before I posted this last comment.

An evening with Violeta

David, I found this today (tomorrow for you since I am 5 hours after you).

I would never ever be able to translate this to English nor to French, nor to any other language, but I just hope you can follow these words in Spanish. But definitely it is a turning point... It is like a bottle in an ocean..

Title: In defense of happiness

Mario Benedetti

Defender la alegría como una trinchera
defenderla del escándalo y la rutina
de la miseria y los miserables
de las ausencias transitorias
y las definitivas

defender la alegría como un principio
defenderla del pasmo y las pesadillas
de los neutrales y de los neutrones
de las dulces infamias
y los graves diagnósticos

defender la alegría como una bandera
defenderla del rayo y la melancolía
de los ingenuos y de los canallas
de la retórica y los paros cardiacos
de las endemias y las academias

defender la alegría como un destino
defenderla del fuego y de los bomberos
de los suicidas y los homicidas
de las vacaciones y del agobio
de la obligación de estar alegres

defender la alegría como una certeza
defenderla del óxido y de la roña
de la famosa pátina del tiempo
del relente y del oportunismo
de los proxenetas de la risa

defender la alegría como un derecho
defenderla de dios y del invierno
de las mayúsculas y de la muerte
de los apellidos y las lástimas
del azar
y también de la alegría

The MacBook Wheel

niche information

.Mac calendar synchronisation problem in Leopard

@Chad: If I understand you correctly, you need to synchronise your Mac with the data on Mobile Me, replacing the relevant data on your computer (calendar, bookmarks or whatever) with the data in the cloud.

You should find the information you require on Apple's website:

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1932
http://www.apple.com/mobileme/setup/mac/

Hope this helps.

.Mac calendar synchronisation problem in Leopard

I have had the same problem with a small twist. All of my data is in the cloud on mobile me. There is no copy on my computer. How can I make a backup off of mobile me and then work off of the backup to my local machine. I am running 10.4.11 on one laptop and tower and 10.5.6 on my mac mini. HELP!!!!!!

What are web standards?

u r blog Is very nice

Get your MacBook to sleep smart

@Yannis I'm not sure it'll save battery, but your MBP should go to sleep much faster when you close the screen ;)

Get your MacBook to sleep smart

Hey David, thank you for the tip! I just installed it on my MBP... Hope it will help me save my battery...

An evening with Violeta

Thanks for your input lavinia :)

An evening with Violeta

And here you find the translation to English

http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/benedetti080207p.html

And here you can listen the song composed by JM Serrat with Benedetti's lyric (El sur tambien existe)

http://www.jmserrat.com/serrat/letras/elsur.html

An evening with Violeta

David, I am posting a poem from an Uruguaian writer which describes perfectly, in latin spanish the Latin (South) American spirit.

Thanks for saying all you wrote about Violeta Parra and the Spanish from Latin America. We are deeply touched.

Lavinia

EL SUR TAMBIEN EXISTE

Mario Benedetti

Con su ritual de acero
sus grandes chimeneas
sus sabios clandestinos
su canto de sirenas
sus cielos de neón
sus ventanas navideñas
su culto a dios padre
y de las charreteras
con sus llaves del reino
el norte es el que ordena
pero aquí abajo abajo
el hambre disponible
recorre el fruto amargo
de lo que otros deciden
mientras que el tiempo pasa
y pasan los desfiles
y se hacen otras cosas
que el norte no prohíbe
con su esperanza dura
el sur también existe

con sus predicadores
sus gases que envenenan
su escuela de chicago
sus dueños de la tierra
con sus trapos de lujo
y su pobre osamenta
sus defensas gastadas
sus gastos de defensa
son su gesta invasora
el norte es el que ordena

pero aquí abajo abajo
cada uno en su escondite
hay hombres y mujeres
que saben a qué asirse
aprovechando el sol
y también los eclipses
apartando lo inútil
y usando lo que sirve
con su fe veterana
el sur también existe

con su corno francés
y su academia sueca
su salsa americana
y sus llaves inglesas
con todos sus misiles
y sus enciclopedias
su guerra de galaxias
y su saña opulenta
con todos sus laureles
el norte es el que ordena

pero aquí abajo abajo
cerca de las raíces
es donde la memoria
ningún recuerdo omite
y hay quienes se desmueren
y hay quienes se desviven
y así entre todos logran
lo que era un imposible
que todo el mundo sepa
que el sur también existe.

Mobile Aperture

My strategy is to not be mad after Joe Schorr and the Aperture team for taking so long to release something that actually works for other than the independant wedding photographer. Then, go with the flow and consider — unless you're an embedded photog reporting from Kabul — that you're better off using your eyes and lenses while on the road instead of spending time pushing pixels on a screen.

My library lives in my studio and is very happy there. Abroad, I carry a Hyperdrive to backup my cards and that's about it. If I'm on assignment and need to shoot tethered, I create a specific Aperture project then copy it back to my main library when back in the studio (drag and drop works well for this).

Traveling with your entire photo library is like carrying around your entire music library, will you listen to it all?

My 2 cents...

Use Apache's mod_rewrite for beautiful MovableType URLs

@enrique: thanks!!

You are right to point this out. I left it out of the above tutorial beacuse none of its URLs appear in the address bar.

I believe you could symlink a`mt-static` folder into your blog's folder, and it should work just fine.

The configuration takes relative paths too (you don't have to specify a full URL):

StaticWebPath  /mt-static/

So creating a symlink like,

ln -s /somewhere/on/your/disk/mt-static/ /your/blog/mt-static/

should do the trick.

WRT StyleCatcher, I'm not sure about it's default behaviour. I'll give it a look.

Use Apache's mod_rewrite for beautiful MovableType URLs

Thanks for the tutorial David, it helped me a lot.
However, how do you deal with the mt-static folder. Now that it is symlinked in the cgi-bin folder, It seems like I can't point to it from my new domain (I'm using MT's StyleCatcher which creates a @import in my CSS to a style inside mt-static.).

Using your technique, should one have a separate mt-static folder per domain/blog? Or could one simply create a symlink of the mt-static folder somewhere out of the cgi-bin folder? Not sure if I'm very clear...

Thanks again! // e

Animoto for the iPhone

Great site, i like soo much all that blog.. make me the inspiration for make my own.

Thanks

www.iphonextrem.com

Use Apache's mod_rewrite for beautiful MovableType URLs

@Culture Snob: try this one on MacOSXHints:
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=2001110610290643

this weblog entry:
http://www.cocoatech.com/weblog/archives/2007/04/30/aliases_symboli

or the manual page:
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Darwin/Reference/Manpages/man1/ln.1.html

Cheers

Use Apache's mod_rewrite for beautiful MovableType URLs

Never mind. I think I figured it out.

Thanks again for the tutorial.

Use Apache's mod_rewrite for beautiful MovableType URLs

Thanks for the tutorial. Is there any easy-to-understand tutorial on symlink that might make this a little more accessible to those of us who are petrified of the command line?

I've done clean tag-search URLs through .htaccess before, but with my current installation structure (domain1.com and domain2.com using an MT installation in user.host.com), the old rewrite rules don't seem to work. This looks to be a solution, but I'm not familiar with symlink.

Gap

Is the gap opening or closing? That is the question..

.Mac calendar synchronisation problem in Leopard

@rik and @ Danielle I'm very happy it worked for you. I haven't run into any similar problems since - touch wood.

Thank you for letting my know :)

.Mac calendar synchronisation problem in Leopard

woohoo!!! After trying other suggestions to no avail, I am extremely pleased to say that this fix did actually work for me. Thanks so much!

.Mac calendar synchronisation problem in Leopard

Thank you!!! It solved a problem I had since months and Apple did not help at all.

Spaces matter in IE 7's conditional statements

I was going nuts as to why the conditional statement always ended in a comment line...
You made my day..
Thanxx amillion..

.Mac calendar synchronisation problem in Leopard

Read http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1627.

Use Apache's mod_rewrite for beautiful MovableType URLs

@Will: I believe they should work just fine :)

.Mac calendar synchronisation problem in Leopard

I have Greg's same exact problem. The good data is on mobileme and my iphone, with healthy syncing between the two. But my iCal in OS X 10.5.5 is way out of date and I'd just like to replace it with what's on mobileme. Yet I get the "inconsistent data" message when I try to reset data from mobileme. Annoying.

Use Apache's mod_rewrite for beautiful MovableType URLs

Great tutorial. I've got the same issue, a separate domain for a single MT install driving multiple blogs.

I want to your technique for one of the blogs I've got running, but don't want to break the others.

Say I've got Movable Type installed at:

http://mt.example.com/

publishing different blogs to different domains (all on the same server):

http://domain1.com/
http://domain2.com/
http://domain3.com/

If I create a symlink between...

mt.example.com/cgi-bin and domain1.com/cgi-bin

...what happens with the other domains that are referencing mt.example.com/cgi-bin? Will they still work as usual with the ugly urls or will they break?

Thanks.

What is your notepad bag?

@marco I actually bought it online directly from Timbuk2…

Checking their site showed a couple of shops in Geneva:

Andreas Guth - Stuff'
7 pl. du Bourg-de-Four
Geneva, 1204
Switzerland
+4122 311-1410

Horspiste SA Cycles et Sport
Rue des Rois 3
Geneve, 1204
Switzerland
+022 328 47 09

http://www.timbuk2.com/tb2/retail/retailer.htm

What is your notepad bag?

Maybe a silly question: where did you get your Timbuk2 bag? I read you're based in Geneva: is there any local retailer in town? I was not able to find the info on their web site...

VisualHub discontinued

open recource
http://www.davidroessli.com/logs/2008/10/visualhub_discontinued/index.html

A West African storytelling Sunday afternoon

Hi,

My name is Sandi and I'm working in association with Thumbplay.com, a leading online platform of mobile entertainment content that offers ringtones, wallpapers, games and text-based services through a membership-based, community experience.

I feel the information on your site you provide is very useful. I would love to know if you could link to our ringtone resource.

Best regards,
Sandi

VisualHub discontinued

I am sorry to hear it.
It is a good software. But now.......
I found another good
video converter for mac.

.Mac calendar synchronisation problem in Leopard

@David: I've updated the MobileMe System prefs several times ... I'm running 10.5.5. I've completely erased my iSync device list, as I no longer need to sync my trusty SE600i via Bluetooth (which was a painless and reliable process >_

Taking a superficial look at the solutions, my safest bet would be to copy --by hand-- my calendars and contact details from the phone to the iMac; as the trend in the posted solutions is to "sync from scratch" online from the "definitive" copy on the computer.

I'm also tempted to leave things as they are for the moment, as the iPhone/MobileMe relationship is so healthy. Not happy that my iMac can't join in as a third party!

Also, I may have to reinstall OSX --again-- as I've just finished trouble-shooting some nasty wireless networking problems. This may give me a clean slate once I re-establish my, my wife's files/account status etc.

.Mac calendar synchronisation problem in Leopard

@Greg: strange. I have always had success in updating my Mac from the online (.Mac or MobileMe now) version, if the latter isn't corrupted. Which isn't the case if your iPhone and MobileMe account are syncing okay.

Have you updated the .Mac System Preference? It should read MobileMe now (Are you running Leopard? 10.5.x?)

There were some issues with 10.4 (Tiger) and MobileMe syncing - not sure if they are resolved now.

Not much help - sorry…

.Mac calendar synchronisation problem in Leopard

I've got a similar problem: just the other way around.

I have erased all the contact and calendar data on my computer and am trying to update my iMac's iCal and Address Book from Mobile Me. My iPhone and Mobile Me are syncing wonderfully; I consider them both up-to-date. Any clues?

My 2 cents worth of iPhone tips for Switzerland

@Anila: I'm not sure. Does it not charge when connected directly to the USB port of a computer? Or via the power adapter?

Try swapping it with a recent iPod's power adapter, or try another cable to make sure the problem doesn't come from the accessories rather than from the phone itself.

My 2 cents worth of iPhone tips for Switzerland

Hi David,
thank you for posting this information .

I am having a weird problem. my phone was unlocked to use in Switzerland. recently I've connected iphone to mac and it installed some software.
it was working fine and after a week when I 've to charge it , it was not taking the power(my phone is not getting charged). You have any idea how to overcome this problem?

thank you..

Watch that trailing slash

Really nice tutorial. Really love your blog and i'm gonna subscribe to the RSS feed.

.Mac calendar synchronisation problem in Leopard

I've got six devices (two each Macs, iPhones and iPod touches) I like (have to) keep in sync and since Sept 2 syncs for calendars and contacts have been failing (silently). Since I discovered this three days ago, Apple support has been getting nowhere. While waiting for them to do "research" I've been doing my own and found this work around which matches my pronlem. There may be a better solution but I am not sure Apple Support will be offering it soon. I'll post the results.
Cheers

.Mac calendar synchronisation problem in Leopard

Glad it worked out for you @Rob
:)

.Mac calendar synchronisation problem in Leopard

Yeah baby! After weeks of monkeying around with this and getting nowhere with Apple Support... This fixed my issue!
Thanks a million!

iPod Touch first impressions

@Jose I agree. Actually, with all the problems the iPhone 3G is plagued with, it's a better alternative. Both in terms of battery life and overall stability.

If you are happy with your current cellphone, and don't have sync issues, stick with it and buy an iPod Touch.
(who's price might significatively drop this month if you believe the rumours).

Not to mention, the iPhone probably is the worse cameraphone I have ever seen.

iPod Touch first impressions

I just recently bought an iPod Touch, and while it isn't the newest gadget on the block anymore, it is still one of the best. I love the touch screen as well as the easy to use features. The wiFi aspect is also phenomenal.

.Mac calendar synchronisation problem in Leopard

This worked, and I was finally able to sync my damned calendars after following these instructions. Thanks!

My 2 cents worth of iPhone tips for Switzerland

Installing BSD Subsystem crashed my installer and I cannot use it any more. Would you please have a solution.

Adam

My 2 cents worth of iPhone tips for Switzerland

Apparently, Orange _doesn't support EDGE_ on their network, so forget about the above settings.

Sorry about that - I was sure it worked though.

10.5.2 freezes

This is Paolo from Padova, italy, and yes, we have same problem here. It just happens to me when MBP runs on batteries. When it's powered, no probs at all. I'm running 10.5.3 now, and thinking to switch back to Tiger.

Oddly, with Windows XP (on Bootcamp) this problem doesn't pop up, either on batteries or not. So it MUST be a software problem right? No way I'm gonna use WinXP though, I prefer to run on powered :)

My 2 cents worth of iPhone tips for Switzerland

@Steve: try the following:

APN address: event.swisscom.ch
Username:
Password:
MMSC: http://mms.natel.ch:8079
Proxyserveradress: 192.168.210.2:8080

Found on http://www.modmyifone.com/wiki/index.php/Carrier_APN_Settings#Swisscom

My 2 cents worth of iPhone tips for Switzerland

@Steve - sorry, I didn't read properly.

Hmm.. it sounds like an operator setting to me. The first time I fired up my iPhone, I received the following from Swisscom:

Les paramètres de votre portable ont été modifiés. Les MMS sont sauvegardés sur www.swisscom-mobile.ch/mms. Swisscom vous souhaite du plaisir avec MMS.

Nevertheless, configuring Swirly with the above parameters worked for me. The upper right icon must go green before you can send or receive anything. But that must be the case if you can send…

Very weird indeed. Sorry, but I'm not of much help here.

My 2 cents worth of iPhone tips for Switzerland

Hey David.... I am with Swisscom... like i Say... everything is as above... just the fact I can only send and not receive is weird...

My 2 cents worth of iPhone tips for Switzerland

@steve check your MMS settings. These can be tricky. What operator are you using?

My 2 cents worth of iPhone tips for Switzerland

Hey I configured my iPhone for mms as said above... and i have Swirly mms installed... however It doesnt recieve them...

I just get a message from Swisscom telling me I have a mms and a link to a website pickup....

Any help to help me recieve them through Swirly would be good...

steve :s

10.5.2 freezes

Hello,

my machine (french):

Informations matériel :

Nom du modèle : MacBook Pro 15"
Identifiant du modèle : MacBookPro2,2
Nom du processeur : Intel Core 2 Duo
Vitesse du processeur : 2.16 GHz
Nombre de processeurs : 1
Nombre total de cœurs : 2
Cache de niveau 2 : 4 Mo
Mémoire : 1 Go
Vitesse du bus : 667 MHz
Version de la ROM de démarrage : MBP22.00A5.B07
Version SMC : 1.12f5
Numéro de série : 3R70367FW0G
Capteur de mouvement brusque :
État : Activé

Same problems, sometimes, when seeing a film: the computer completely freeze (no trackpad neither keyboard).
Reading audio: a small part of the file loop playing like a record scraching, the only solution: hard restart.

I am musician and perform for hundreds people:I buy a PC and run under Vista?

Thank for advices

Jerome.

Thin line

I know that feeling too well.

Be careful not to get hooked to it though. Adrenaline can be addictive as well as destructive..

Happy birthday Emma
:)

10.5.2 freezes

I am a 10 day new switcher (brand new combo-drive Mac Mini)having the same problems - I have 10.5.2 and this issue started when the the graphics update was installed.

Transcending CSS

Very good table less design , clean CSS - Ideal web 2.0 design I really like it.. Web Designer Ireland
I am a freelance web designer offering affordable services to clients in UK and Ireland.

.Mac calendar synchronisation problem in Leopard

Just wanted to add that these instructions also cured my sync woes as well. I have an iMac and recently also purchased a MacBook. Some stuff synced over to the MacBook but some did not, specifically bookmarks and calendars. After following these instructions now everything is merrily syncing along. Thanks for the great post!

Getting GrowlMail to work

Just found this thread and downloaded Growl Beta 1.1.3 onto my G4 PowerBook running OS X 10.5.2 and Growlmail now works perfectly. Just installing on my iMac (Intel Core 2 Duo) with OS X 10.5.2 running and no apparent inconsistencies with Mail.

Will report back if things do not work to plan. Much obliged for the advice given here.

MacManiac

My 2 cents worth of iPhone tips for Switzerland

Thank you :)

My 2 cents worth of iPhone tips for Switzerland

@djeni the idea is to remove the file named "com.micromat.Syphone.plist" from your ~/Library/Preferences folder before launching the application.

Yes MSB does ask for a donation before letting you backup anything. But it's worth it. Just give him what you think the application deserves. It's a great little application, stable and does just the job. It exports the data in a tab separated format for reuse in a spreadsheet or by any other programme.

Check out also Ecamm's MegaPhone which lets you access your iPod Touch/iPhone directly. You can also use it to export SMSs, call log etc. I find it ideal to transfer the images I received by MMS from my iPhone to my Mac. Brilliant.

My 2 cents worth of iPhone tips for Switzerland

Hello,
thanks for all great information :) I have this problem with Syphone you mentioned, it crashed on launch. What do you mean with "remove the preferences before launching the application". And MobileSyncBrowser asked me to make a donation befor he allows me to backup anything.
Djeni

Getting GrowlMail to work

http://digg.com/apple/GrowlMail_and_Leopard_not_getting_along_Here_s_a_solution

My 2 cents worth of iPhone tips for Switzerland

@camilo check my post above. Just after the EDGE configuration section or visit iClarified for information on how to proceed to install BSD Subsystem.

My 2 cents worth of iPhone tips for Switzerland

thnks.

I tried installing mobilefinder etc but says error: needs BSD subsystem package. install first. any ideas? thanks camilo

Belleruche | Turnable Soul Music

Jamaica embraces white singer. Download free music at avaleigh.co.uk

10.5.2 freezes

I have been having the same issues.

I replaced my MBP battery (under warranty), and also took out what I thought was a bad stick of ram.

I thought it was fixed, and I ran on battery all night last night, with no issues.

Tonight, I froze up twice while running the battery.

My 2 cents worth of iPhone tips for Switzerland

@ksharp: your guess is mine ;)

(but I agree on NextWay - it rocks)

My 2 cents worth of iPhone tips for Switzerland

I had a flawless experience when ordering one from NextWay (http://www.nextway.ch). It worked out of the box. I think they must have done most of the patching themselves (adn added a button to their online store on the desktop).
:)
Highly recommended.

PS: any idea when will the 3G model will ship and will it be available in Switzerland?

My 2 cents worth of iPhone tips for Switzerland

@Adam: thanks! Yes there was invisible trailing characters..
and yes, I suppose I should publish this post in French too.

I'll give it a think.

My 2 cents worth of iPhone tips for Switzerland

David,

Thanks for gathering all this info in one place (and for writing it in English..).

I noticed that the link to MobileSync Browser is broken. I think there is some extra characters at the end that shouldn't be there.

Thought I'd let you know.

10.5.2 freezes

David: I'm having a similar problem but from my crude diagnosis, it's not a "HARDWARE problem" I have boot camp installed on my MBP 15" and I booted into Windows XP and it seems to run fine off of the battery.

I don't know if this helps you but I figured that I'd throw that tidbit of information into the cosmos and see what happens.

My 2 cents worth of iPhone tips for Switzerland

Mine is called a "phone" and I just want it to work out of the box. :)

Getting GrowlMail to work

@Dev Gupta: Err.. I'm not sure what the default values are.

If you want to disable the use of Bundles within Mail, set the value of EnableBundles to 0 (zero) and I believe the second variable BundleCompatibilityVersion concerns the version of Mail (1, 2 or 3).

Getting GrowlMail to work

Can anyone tell me what are the default settings. I would like to un-do this:

defaults write com.apple.mail EnableBundles 1
defaults write com.apple.mail BundleCompatibilityVersion 2

10.5.2 freezes

I have been experiencing the sudden freeze up of Leopard ever since upgrading to 10.5.2 back in February. After reviewing the kernel crisis log with a fella at the Apple genius bar at our local store, I was told my MacBook Pro probably has a problem with the ram. I installed new ram and still have the same symptoms, e.g. random freeze ups that occur sometimes when I'm first bootin up, other times after several hours of use.

I wonder if Apple really knows there is a problem with Leopard vis-a-vis MacBook Pro freez ups and Leopard 10.5.2. Can anyone confirm a documented conversation with Apple's technical staff on this issue?

If not, can someone advise as to how to go about getting in touch with the Apple technical people?

10.5.2 freezes

I am a 7 day old Mac virgin. Top of the range MAC BOOK PRO and 3 freezes - this bug is all over the web (90,000 + hits if you search for 10.5.2 freezes)..

Seems this problem had been around since late Jan (10.5.2 and Graphics updates may be the cause).

3 calls to Apple support and they acknowledge a problem, one guy confessed they (Apple) are not near a fix and stumped.. SAD..

10.5.2 freezes

The random shutdowns seem related to a battery problem. The problem disappeared after switching to a new battery.

Fingers crossed, I haven't experienced a freeze after reverting back to the factory memory modules.

iPhoned 10 years after

Waow - thanks :)
Hey, don't you want to keep it? It's a collector…

10.5.2 freezes

Things are getting WORSE.

My MacBook Pro not only freezes when running on battery with Airport WiFi enabled, it now randomly shutdowns. Bang. Just like if you'd pulled the plug from a desktop machine.

I reinstalled a fresh copy of 10.5, and updated to 10.5.2 with the latest Security Updates and Airport patches.

At reboot, the system logs show:

Mar 18 21:31:25 cinnamon kernel[0]: Previous Shutdown Cause: 0

The freezes generated a cause 3 at reboot,

Mar 18 21:31:25 cinnamon kernel[0]: Previous Shutdown Cause: 3

My patience has almot ran out. Just as my trust in this computer.

The thread on Apple Discussions is getting longer and longer…

iPhoned 10 years after

Still have a working one, perfect and no damages on the display.

When's you bday? =P

iPhoned 10 years after

You bet ;)

I would have loved a StarTAC… I keep an eye open on eBay - but they are rare and few apart…
:/

iPhoned 10 years after

Nokia lover then..
My first was a Swatch one, heavy and huge filled with green led.
Then always Motorola (8200, 8400, Star Tac, M60, V300, Peeble and now Ming) with two extras: Ericsson T68i and Sony Ericsson something-model, the one with the oled display outside.

A hystory in phones... what a time =)

.Mac calendar synchronisation problem in Leopard

I was just running into the same problem but after reading this post I was able to fix it in 1 minute.

I simply re-created the calendar data from my main machine (which holds the most up to date calendars) overwriting the old calendar data on .Mac. I just used the regular advanced feature for that. Afterwards I was able to sync the re-written calender data onto my MacBook PRO.

While this may not work for everybody it is a fast thing to try before you hit the command line purging this manually.

Hope this may be helpful for some
Stefanie

Getting GrowlMail to work

A nice way to change your plist files is with Pref Setter.
Then you can see what your actually changing and easily re-change it you want.

However, I did this

defaults write com.apple.mail EnableBundles 1
defaults write com.apple.mail BundleCompatibilityVersion 2

and my Growlmail still dosn't work. Its not in the System Prefs > Growl > Application, but it does show up in the mail application. No notification, though. Any other ideas? Thanks!

10.5.2 freezes

As this issue is growing, an interesting fix was posted on Apple Discussions which you might want to try if you are running into this problem:

Steve Eugene posted the following:

This is a HARDWARE problem!
After playing around with removing the battery and noticing that this often returned functionality to the keyboard I surmised that this had some sort of physical aspect.
Sure enough, there is a section of copper colored tape/wiring exposed in the batter slot that is slightly bowed where it's smallest.
When I depressed this with my finger tip on this portion to basically flatten it out flush against the housing; I found that all functionality was restored!

As amazing as it sounds, it has actually worked for a number of readers who were suffering from this issue.

Check out the ful post with images at http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1365569&tstart=60

Trusting a Certificate with Keychain Access

@Stuart Err.. I don't know. I suggest you check the ADC Reference Library at http://developer.apple.com/.

Start maybe by checking out the "Getting Started with Security" section at http://tinyurl.com/yqcjlo

Hope this helps.

Trusting a Certificate with Keychain Access

But how does one do that programatically, through a script or something? I've been asked to write an installer that installs a self-signed script. I've suggested that it's inadvisable to do that, but the client is keen... so how does one go about doing it (easy as pie on Windows...)

10.5.2 freezes

Hi there D,

10.5.2 upgrade is terrible. Same as You, I've been completely confident in using the Software Update without any hesitations, but now ...

I mean, my MBP is freezing at least once per day, my Garageband is unusable, Safari chrashes so often that I'm switching to Firefox again ....WTF.

And one can only dream of the times when I had like 50-100 _working_ days of uptime on my PB G4.

I'm not upgrading anymore before some time period given to see what the other (un)lucky users are reporting.

Thanks for the tips, but in my case it didn't help :(

Airport Disk hangs logout if not unmounted

I've been having this exact problem, but it's not Leopard. It started with the 10.4.0 update to Tiger and it's annoying. I've been scanning all the log files and can't seem to find any real hints. I get

Mar  1 10:55:38 Macintosh login[2558]: DEAD_PROCESS: 2558 ttys000

Mar  1 10:59:24 Macintosh loginwindow[2511]: DEAD_PROCESS: 0 console

10.5.2 freezes

Same here. Freezes started happening after the graphic update. Random but seem to be triggered by Safari + running on battery. I repaired permissions and freezes stopped for 3 days but then again it froze the last night :(

I feel exactly as you said -- it's sad to lose trust in a reliable tool (MacBook Pro).

I hope for a fix from Apple...

10.5.2 freezes

I hear you man. Same problem here. As a "switcher," I'm kind of disappointed in OS X, given this freezing issue.

I hope they come up with a fix soon.

10.5.2 freezes

Sadly, the freezes are still occuring. They usually happen when I'm running on battery power, whatever the application running.

If Apple doesn't come out with a solution quickly, my only choice will be to clean install 10.5.1 and wait.

It really makes me feel angry.

On the gripe level, please be aware that the SiliconImage ExpressCard 34 eSATA host controller generates kernel panics under Leopard when inserted or ejected from my MacBook Pro. The current driver is v1.1.9 and this includes cards sold by Sonnet and LaCie. Sucks.

In sync

Thanks for your words Claudia.
:)

I'll drop you a couple of invits in your mailbox…

In sync

Then I wish kids a very happy bday (and I want an invitation tooo =P)! Such moments are always happy and full of joy.. the joy you can read in the eyes and on the lips of those creatures.

Will step off from the "baaaaaaah" on the MN website (fancy but too sheepy =P) and want to drop down few words from a song that fill your ending lines:

Release your innovations
Feel the rain on your skin
No one else can feel it for you
Only you can let it in
No one else, no one else
Can speak the words on your lips
Drench yourself in words unspoken
Live your life with arms wide open
Today is where your book begins
The rest is still unwritten

- Natasha Bedingfield

Getting GrowlMail to work

How do I change the the EnableBundles property of your Mail preferences (~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.mail.plist) to true? I found the preference, clicked it and a bunch of code popped up in a text writer. Now what? (And do I really wanna mess with this code?)

.Mac calendar synchronisation problem in Leopard

This worked for me. Thanks for the advice.

Getting GrowlMail to work

growl.info is down. would anybody upload growl beta 1.1.3?

.Mac calendar synchronisation problem in Leopard

Thanks for the great instructions. It only took me 15 minutes to fix this problem because of your post. It also saved a new computer buying experience from going bad.

Getting GrowlMail to work

Download Growl beta 1.1.3 and install the GrowlMail package in there to get GrowlMail to work under 10.5.2

Getting GrowlMail to work

This hack didn't work for me. After I type the commands I open mail and get the message saying that GrowlMail has been disabled. What gives? I just installed GrowlMail also, about 1 hour ago just before I updates to 10.5.2

Watch that trailing slash

Trailing Slashes are good in way. Its better to use it when you are submitting your website or making a text link. Here is a good blog related to these issues, that u find worth to read
http://seodocs.blogspot.com/

Trusting a Certificate with Keychain Access

nice info. i receive a x509 password error. it seems to be system generated. and not associated with system root

Asa | Asa

Too bad GE is a long way from here.. but I can arrange a Jazz matinee in the neibs, not the same vibe I bet.

Raspberry sky

C'est la récompense d'arriver tôt au bureau.
Depuis mon perchoir là haut, on a une vue magnifique sur les levés de soleil.

Getting GrowlMail to work

Try this recompiled version of GrowlMail: http://www.mediafire.com/?29l7bt4xe7c

You'll need to set to true the EnableBundles property of your Mail preferences (~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.mail.plist)

Please note that this is not an official version, and hence not supported, so don't bother the developers. Nevertheless, it seems to do the job. You can't select/deselect the accounts to monitor in the Preference pane. All accounts are active be default.

Treat this as an interim solution until the official version becomes available (it is being completely rewritten to account for changes in Leopard). I'm currently running it with Growl 1.1.2 on Mac OS 10.5.2.

Dingalingaling

@Ari, the file is available from the following URL: http://www.davidroessli.com/logs/assets/audio/07_Radjiv_07.mp3

Dingalingaling

Hi,

Could you please send me the 07_Radjiv_07.mp3. -file per e-mail, since I have no idea wether I can download it from your site. Please.

I´ve been searching for this particular tone for months. I heard it last summer in Switzerland, but my swiss friend lost it.

I would be very grateful if you could help me! I´m living now in Finland and here it´s unknown.

Regards,
Ari

Backup revisited

David,
Thanks for posting this article on how your use SoftRaid and Super Duper. (I found you after plugging in several combinations of keywords into Google - whew!) My mercury elite plug-n-play that comes with SoftRaid should be coming soon as I'll be using that to back-up everything from my computer hard drive and any external drives off the computer. I had heard I can use Super Duper to schedule but still have to figure it out exactly how to do that. Looks like a lot of user manual reading is in the near future (grin). I'm used to having a help desk and recently became my own tech support - oy. Thanks for the other tips and letting me know it can be done ;-)
Deb

Getting GrowlMail to work

Same problem as Chris!

Getting GrowlMail to work

This didn't work for me. Whatever I did in Terminal did SOMETHING because the next time I opened Mail it told me that the GrowlMail app was incompatible and it would be deactivated... the same msg I got the first time I booted up Leopard.

This is on a brand new Mac with a Clean Leopard Install.

Any other suggestions? I miss my Growl notifications.

iPod Touch first impressions

@JL: if I was you, I would stay away from anything with an Apple on it.

I agree that iTunes' library sharing is poor to say the least, but your comment doesn't bring anything new or constructive to the discussion.

You sound like a Troll to me.

iPod Touch first impressions

I live in France and work in Geneva.
While I was in Knoxville TN Apple Store, I bought two Ipod Touch players, and a MacBook (The MacBook is fine except I have to cough up 200Eu to buy Lepoard a week after I bought it). I was going to give the Itouch players as presents for Christmas to my daughter and wife.
However I have found out to my cost that the devices have been sabotaged in such a way that only ITunes can be used on only one computer for one device. Also the players are unusable from Linux (Encrypted
protocol) so that it is impossible to use them with winamp + mlipod as in the past. In my opinion I was sold these devices under false pretenses, they are simply junk, there should be a large warning written on the packet:
WARNING THESE DEVICES ARE BRAIN DEAD AND NEED ITUNES BLOATWARE.
My daughter runs Ubuntu/Windows Dual Boot, I run Ubuntu,
MaxOs (on my new MacBook) and Windows. There are 6 computers in my house, 3 operating systems and two ITouches; the horrible impossible mess created by Itunes
and the ridiculous way it is impossible to use windows and MacOs (Incompatible file systems!!) or even two windows computers (One Library) is simply a dirty trick from Apple. Rest assured that I will tell others what Apple is up to, they wont sell any more of that junk to the people I know. The web is now full of complaints about IPhone and ITouch:
http://www.blogitouch.fr/2007/09/17/itunes-obligatoire-pour-les-nouveaux-ipod/
- this explains how the Itouch has been sabotaged and how to fix it with a jailbreak
or
http://www.calacanis.com/
- are some examples of the troubles the poor suckers had who own two computers, hell they don't have two ITouches
then they would be in real trouble.
Apple is shooting itself in the foot.
Any one want a couple of new ITouches going cheap I am not dishonest enough not tell tell them what a load of rubbish they are.

Spaces matter in IE 7's conditional statements

Try also:

<!--[if IE 7]>

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="all" href="" />

<![endif]-->

Getting GrowlMail to work

Ok, growl now presents in mail and mail presents in growl.
What i have to do now to have those notifications working? :(

Getting GrowlMail to work

Thanks! Worked like a charm. :D

Getting GrowlMail to work

@Elo: Mac OS X 10.5's Mail.app requires bundle version 3 or greater. You can try the following command to enable GrowlMail:

defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.mail EnableBundles -bool YES
defaults write com.apple.mail BundleCompatibilityVersion -int 3

Or, download the script from http://trac.growl.info/changeset/4693

There is an interesting AppleScript alternative that is described in a blog post called "Growl, Mail.app and AppleScript" by Kevin Way.

Getting GrowlMail to work

and with Leopard? what command must be written? because Mail does not recognize growlmail under Leopard...

thanks

Getting GrowlMail to work

Took me quite a bit of digging, or at least more than it should have to find this tidbit. Thank you so much! Now if the Growl devs would include this information, I think a lot of people would be much less frustrated by "Growl/Mail/GrowlMail/etc" not working.

Getting GrowlMail to work

It worked! Thank you. :-D

Backup revisited

@Adriano: did you quite all running apps? If so, you probably have a service accessing the drive (filesharing most probably).

Here are the steps I follow on my Mac OS X Server:

1. Open server Admin;
2. Stop file sharing services (AFP, Windows);
3. Open SoftRAID;
4. Split MIrror Volume Backup into “Read-only Secondary Disk��?. Two disks with the same name will appear in the Finder. One has a padlock, that is the secondary drive;
5. Unmount the padlocked volume and remove physically the disk from the system;
6. Insert the other secondary disk. It will appear as locked volume in SoftRAID;
8. Click it and select "Convert Read-only Secondary Drive" from the Volume menu;
9. A dialog box will ask you what to do with it. Select “Add to original mirror��?. The secondary disk will then synched;
10. Restart file sharing services and resume normal life.

If you're not running Mac OS Server, turn the file sharing services off from the System Preferences > Sharing pane.

Backup revisited

I've been using softraid, but I'm unable to split a mirror drive as you describe. I get a "Drive in use" message. Any idea?

iPod Touch first impressions

@Zeljko: (No problem - I should speak German..)

I'm not sure. I guess you could try through a reseller (http://wheretobuy.apple.com/Catalog.html), but they probably restrict their sales to the US.

Getting GrowlMail to work

Works like a dream and thanks for sharing :-)

iPod Touch first impressions

Sorry David, i thought you talk German.
Do you know if there's any possibility to order the iPod in the US? Its is much cheaper over there.

Cheers

iPod Touch first impressions

@ Zeljko: in English please.. :/ I'm not sure I understand your question.

Are you asking if I ordered my iPod Touch in the US? ordered it from the Swiss Apple Store the day following it's announcement.

iPod Touch first impressions

Wie und wo hast du es geschafft dir einen ipod touch aus den Staaten liefern zu lassen? Ich versuche das schon seit ein paar Tagen doch es klappt nicht.

Vielen Dank für deine (raschmögliche) Antwort.

Cheers
Zeljko

Getting GrowlMail to work

@firebirdc5: are you running the latest version? Check for other Mail add-ons, font managers, or haxies you may have installed and deactivate them temporarily. Other users are having similar problems. Check this thread http://tinyurl.com/2c5x4q (you could try to downgrade to the previous version 0.76)

@smanny: you need to open the Terminal application which is located in the Utilities folder of your Applications folder and type in the two commands.

Getting GrowlMail to work

Hey, I'm really new at this stuff...
what do you mean with I have to run those commands - where? who can help?
thanx a lot in advance ;-)

Getting GrowlMail to work

That seemed to fix growl but now when I launch mail.app as soon as a notification tries to go out mail.app crashes. The only way to get it to stop crashing is to disable the above changes. Anyone else have that?

iPod Touch first impressions

Me too..

Dear David

Finding a solution for you is important to me, so I have requested assistance with the issue you reported. You will receive an email after the matter has been investigated and further information is available.

Thank you for your patience. Apple wants your iTunes experience to be as enjoyable as possible.

Sincerely,

***
iTunes Customer Support
http://www.apple.com/support/itunes/ww/

iPod Touch first impressions

Concerning the Wi-Fi Music Store language issues, I received a reply from Apple Support saying that this has been bumped up to the developers. Hopefully it will be fixed. But let's consider ourselves lucky, the menus could have been in Swedish. No one knows where Switzerland is anyway. ;)

Getting GrowlMail to work

cheers!

Getting GrowlMail to work

Thanks a bunch!

This worked for me!

Mark

Getting GrowlMail to work

Thanks! Mine works now.

Getting GrowlMail to work

Hey THANKS ! for the info got mine working now also..

iPod Touch first impressions

You can use iTunes to verify that all the music, videos, and other items you bought from the iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store are in your iTunes library. You might want to do this if a download was interrupted. Here's how:

1. In iTunes, choose Store > Check for Purchases.
2. Enter your iTunes Store account ID and password, then click Check.
3. Purchases not yet on your computer will be downloaded.

More info here:

iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store Troubleshooting
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=306441
Copying iTunes Store purchases from your iPod or iPhone to a computer
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305465

iPod Touch first impressions

No. Unfortunately, not yet. The firmware upgrade didn't change anything. I suspect the problem lies somehow on the server side.

I 've just received the invoices relative to my purchases on the WiFi Store: in German (sigh). I contacted client support and see what they'll come back with.

Enjoy your iPod Touch. It really is awesome.

iPod Touch first impressions

I'm in Canada, and my iPod touch just shipped yesterday. It sounds like an awesome tool. The language problem with the WiFi store sounds VERY annoying - have you found a solution yet? They just released a new firmware (1.1.1) - that might solve the problem.

Movable Type in the fast lane

MT's grid doesn't use FastCGI. The script you ran may have output the expected results, but support confirms they have no plans to install FastCGI.

Airport Disk hangs logout if not unmounted

Hi

I have a related problem. Not only does my logout hang, but my logins hang as well.

The only way I can login is to turn off the airport extreme. Or I should turn off my airport before I logout each time - both of which SUCK.

I have tried your suggestion and that did not fix the problem.

Any other tips?

Use Apache's mod_rewrite for beautiful MovableType URLs

This is close to what I have been looking for. The problem is that the keywords in your urls are separated by underscores, which almost defeat the purpose of rewriting the urls. I think most people rewrite their urls for search engines and the little extra boost they give.

Airport Disk hangs logout if not unmounted

EXCELLENT!! I have been looking for those wise words for a couple of weeks now.
Its ridiculously tedious searching for various mac issues on the web as well as apple's own "knowledge base". As a long time windows admin, now apple addict, this is the one place apple needs to look MS over the shoulder, and implement something similar on their website. The MS knowledge base and TechNet for pro's are far easier to search through and find useful info in.
Anyway, many thanks for posting your experience here.
Best regards,
Kim

Safari UTF-8 rendering glitch fixed in WebKit nightly build

Thanks Adam, your tip works like a charm. Actually, I did previously try it but I didn't remove the character 'x' following the backslash and hence it didn't work.
Make sure you use,

content: "\201c"

content: "\x201c"

Note: TextMate encodes in hex with the "x"

Safari UTF-8 rendering glitch fixed in WebKit nightly build

I've just been having the same problem. My solution was to escape the UTF-8 characters in the CSS file; for example, rather than using

content: "“"

content: "\201C"

Twitter cleanup

Oh thanks a lot for the hint, I'm just terrified by those wild oats addings!
True that I'm not following any tweet.. =)

Damp and powerless

Yes, sometimes shit happens.. I can lend you a bucket to flip water outside, the next time =)

Your latest t-shirt

I gave importance for quality not for brand.I have visited a so many sites, which sales all kinds of t-shirts online.

Swiss french speak French

Symantec is doing involuntary Multilanguage interactions with its clients: Last year, I bought a French version of Norton antivirus in a Swiss store. Yesterday I was trying to renew the license. First I click yes on the Norton invite would you like to renew your license?. I was quite surprise to get a page in German which was invited me to update a German version of Norton antivirus. It was simply impossible to find a way to switch to a French page in order to update my French version of Norton... Anyway, after a short research on Symantec website, I finally found that in the French version of the site, the client may choose other French-speaking countries, i.e Switzerland, cool! I renewed the license there and was quite happy to receive a confirmation in a language that I guess was something like Finnish !!! Of course I paid the new license but the new code is systematically rejected when I try to enter it in Norton... :-(

Multiple iTunes librairies

Few and far apart. I only sync my calendar and contact info with my iPods.

This results from the fact that my truly mobile iPod is a 1Gb Nano I picked up at a slashed price just before the 2nd generation Nanos were released, and such little storage requires manual syncing. My other iPod is a 30Gb 3G that sits in the car, and only make his way back home before a long trip in the car.

iPod syncing has always been an issue with me as it relies on a single library to perform at its best. Mine gets hooked up to two desktop Macs and a MBP on a weekly basis, so I quickly disabled the music/playlist/podcast syncing. I don't maintain consistent libraries over all the computers I use. The only library I try to maintain up-to-date is my home Airport Disk shared one. I regularly drag my new tracks to it, but I haven't yet found n efficient way of doing so. I have a playlist on my MBP with the latest tracks I need to add, but you still need to export them somehow from one lib in order to import to another, which still is a drag. I'm working on an Automator script that will do it or me, but haven't got around to polishing it yet.

I would believe that using multiple libraries with an iPod is a bit like using an iPod on multiple computers, you have to switch to "Manually manage music" in the iPod's preference pane on iTunes.

So no, iPod syncing isn't a feature I use too much.

Multiple iTunes librairies

It seems like my iPod auto-syncs with the currently loaded library which confuses me slightly. Also, the selected playlists settings seem to remain on the iTunes side and not the libraries' which is also quite bizarre.

What is your experience syncing an iPod with multiple libraries?

Airport Disk hangs logout if not unmounted

Unfortunately, I was a little too enthusiastic. The problem remains until you uncheck "Disconnect from wireles networks when I log out" in the Airport Options of Network Preferences.

MacBook Pro Core 2 Duo WEP problems fixed?

Looks like apple is doing something about this.. They know it's broke, I ended up buying a new router (apple brand, of course) and everything was fixed (duh). Basically, it was bait and switch.

I posted my owes on the discussions only to have my ID discontinued without warning. After buying a MacBook Pro and a Extreme router, with apple quicktime pro, my ID has been discontinued.

man, that's evil!

Hope they fix it.. and I'm sure they can try and give me my posting privileges back...

Kristian

Airport Disk hangs logout if not unmounted

I'm happy to announce that Airport Base Station Update 2007-001 fixes this problem.

The AirPort Base Station Update 2007-001 includes general fixes and compatibility updates for the following applications:

• AirPort Utility
• AirPort Admin Utility for Graphite and Snow Base Stations
• AirPort Disk Utility
• AirPort Disk Agent

MacBook Pro Core 2 Duo WEP problems fixed?

Sorry to hear that. Try to downloading and installing the standalone update from Apple downloads. That fixes things sometimes.

MacBook Pro Core 2 Duo WEP problems fixed?

2007-002 sent my Airport extreme card on my new Intel MacBook from perfect working order to zero functionality. Sort it out apple!

Safari UTF-8 rendering glitch fixed in WebKit nightly build

David, that's curious! I guess I misremembered the cause for this issue. The fact that @charset isn't working in Safari 2.0 is not surprising -- support for it was only added to WebKit in September last year. The issue I mentioned, which doesn't seem to be the case in the examples you've provided, was about the character set on the main document being ignored when determining the encoding of the stylesheet. If you're really curious and interested in finding a workaround, it should be possible to work out roughly where in the archive of nightly builds the bug went away. This would make it easier to work out what the fix for the problem was and can make it simple to work backwards from there to find a workaround.

David, thanks for testing the nightly builds! If you run into any other issues which are not yet fixed, please don't hesitate to file bug reports so that they can be investigated as soon as possible.

Safari UTF-8 rendering glitch fixed in WebKit nightly build

Thanks Mark for your insight and comments. I don't know why I didn't think to use the charset property or rule before.

In html file:

<link type="text/css; charset=utf-8" rel="stylesheet" href=".." />

In external stylesheet file:

@charset "utf-8";

Unfortunately, I can't seem to get it to work properly. I added a rule to set the charset information in .htaccess as described in the W3C document FAQ: Setting charset information in .htaccess. The new http headers can be viewed with through a web-sniffer report of a css file.

AddType 'text/css; charset=UTF-8' css

The css file shows up correctly: the quotes are curly. Unfortunately, the html page isn't rendered correctly.

I wrapped up a quick set of test files to illustrate the differences with and without the charset property in the main html file and the external stylesheet file, and was surprised to see that none of them work as they should.

1. Embedded stylesheet: works fine
2. External stylesheet without @charset rule referenced without the charset property in link
3. External stylesheet with @charset rule referenced without the charset property in link
4. External stylesheet without @charset rule referenced with the charset property in link
5. External stylesheet with @charset rule referenced with the charset property in link

All files are utf-8 encoded. All files are rendered correctly in the latest nightly build, but not in Safari 2.

Safari UTF-8 rendering glitch fixed in WebKit nightly build

I should mention that the proper solution for the CSS generated content issue would be to serve your stylesheet with a MIME type that mentions the encoding of the content. Content-type: text/css; charset=utf-8 will have your curly-quotes looking splendid in Safari 2.0 as well as the nightly builds, and is safer than relying on the specific heuristic used to determine the encoding in a stylesheet.

Safari UTF-8 rendering glitch fixed in WebKit nightly build

From memory the issue here was that external stylesheets default to the latin-1 text encoding while users assume they would default to the encoding of the document referencing them. I do not recall what the specification says about this, but I believe WebKit was updated to respect any character set specified in the HTTP headers for the stylesheet (as it always has) and fall back to the main documents encoding if one is not set. That would explain why you are seeing the correct behaviour now where it failed in the past.

The JavaScript issue sounds a bit different and I can't think of a reason for the issue off the top of my head. Since it's fixed in WebKit and you have a workaround for your site, I'll leave that as is.

- Mark

Your latest t-shirt

I had to buy an ash gray t-shirt of my tribal Spirit design. I remember finishing it and thinking, "Wow. *I* did this?"

Safari UTF-8 rendering glitch fixed in WebKit nightly build

Thanks for writing this up. I've been bothered by that display issue for the longest time. It's nice to see some explanation behind it.

After FoWA London 2007

Hi David,

Thanks for coming all the way over to London for the event. I'm sorry (again) about the wifi. Because they didn't turn on the ADSL on the lines, there was nothing we could do to fix the problem in time (trust me, heads are going to roll on this one!).

We'll do a better job on the points you mentioned, so thanks for bringing them up.

Hope to see you next year!

Kind regards,
Ryan

What is your notepad bag?

For one reason, I can't stop using my Freitag bag that hasn't really been designed for laptops but is quite okay with a pouch like the Brain Cell.

Is it because of the "less bag" factor, or the feeling it gives to own a unique design (every Freitag bag is different) or is it the snobbishness to wear a brand that has entered the permanent collections of some museums of modern art, I don't know. Maybe it is simply because I like bags that don't look new.

Anyhow, my next "new" bag might be a Crumpler because of their simple, well-thought designs and their wild branding.

Yet another WiFi network (yawn)

iStumbler release 98 solves the signal strength issue on Core 2 Duo Macs.

Cold here too

Whether how to define serious cold, or it is a virus and when thus there is a sense to address to the doctor? Or it is possible to lay simply at home, being treated most? WBR LeoP

Enlightened

Johanna, I actually did embed the picture at first, then I noticed the copyright notice: © All Rights Reserved. - so I swapped it with Flickr's logo.

Enlightened

Briliant. I love it. I wonder if it is his.. Why didn't you link the image on your blog?

My backup paranoia

It is quiet actually. The PowerMac G5's fans make more noise and cover those of the Fusion. LaCie's Two Big is much more noisier (but it is off most of the time, and it's hidden in a closet anyway).

My backup paranoia

How noisy is the Fusion 400? Anything you could live with in your lounge?

Yet another WiFi network (yawn)

Alf,
Thanks for your comment and your efforts to provide us with a useful and reliable tool. I really appreciate it.

Yet another WiFi network (yawn)

Sorry about the signal strength bug you're seeing in this screenshot, the private AirPort API for newer Macs are sending back bad data and I've almost got a new release which fixes the bug ready to ship. Keep an eye out.

Transcending CSS

Dear David,
Many thanks for your very kind words about Transcending CSS. I'm glad you liked it.

Kind regards,
Andy

Getting GrowlMail to work

Yes, I was :)
Actually, the archives are still available on http://www.macinblog.com/

Getting GrowlMail to work

Thanks! Couldn't figure out why it worked on one Mac and not on the other.

PS: were you the guy who wrote on Macinblog a few years ago?

Add your vCard to your Mail.app sig

http://gambling-poker-reviews.pp.ru - best selection online of games from the best Internet of a casino!

iDVD 3.0.1 without a SuperDrive

I have the 2002 quicksilver g4 model.
I recently lost my dvd superdrive so i purchased a newer external firewire Lacie lightscribe DVD burner. Now i cannot open my IDVD because I do not have the superdrive connected.

I a running system os 9.2.2 what should I do?

DVD copy

I'm unclear, but from their website, it looks like Toast 7 is saying it will do this as well. True?

Access .Mac from your cell phone

This WAP for .Mac service is apparently no longer available. The link goes to a "buy this domain" page.

Add your vCard to your Mail.app sig

Hello, I liked you site very much. But maybe you should change the color of the background on the site?

Software Update Glitch

Yet another problem which calls this symptom is if your /Library/Packages or /Library/Receipts have incorrect privileges.

Software Update Glitch

I just fixed mine, a similar situation to what Greg posted above, my company blocked akamai.net

I had them unblock it and ran update from the command line, all is well. I first tried the Symlinks and that didnt work,. but the blocked site did

Add your vCard to your Mail.app sig

Hello, I liked you site very much. But maybe you should change the color of the background on the site?

Add your vCard to your Mail.app sig

Hello! I am your fan!!!

Search your (Safari) bookmarks

Can you provide some quick installation instructions? The link to Kirk Samuelson's blog is not coming up for me now, and the littlethinktank.com link is broken.

Safari's default FTP

none

Add Cover Art to iTunes 4

Instead of click-dragging the artwork into iTunes, you can now press shift-apple-J and it will automatically insert the image. Pretty cool!

VersionTracker's new UI

After a long search, I finally found your site.
My granny used to say, that you must never give up to reach a certain aim.
So keep on going like I did it recently.

Virex eUpdate .. outdated

Thank you very much for this top tip. I was seconds away from ordering Norton...so your help was appreciated....

General Protection Fault

This is really a crazy world. How can anybody understand all this crazy stuff all around? It's so meaningless, but in one way it's fantastic!

March again

This is really a crazy world. How can anybody understand all this crazy stuff all around? It's so meaningless, but in one way it's fantastic!

Add your vCard to your Mail.app sig

Another web-search engine - not fast now. but shows interesting sites in result.

Arial ou Helvetica ?

Sehr sehr nette und ansprechende Seite. Ich tummle mich gerne hier. Ein sehr großes Lob an den Webmaster.
Macht weiter so. Liebe Grüße aus dem Rheinland

Non à la guerre en Iraq!

very nice and informal comments

Virex eUpdate .. outdated

Thank you very much for the help with Virex. I followed your directions, and I was able to use the Virex eUpdate. The next time I need to update, will I need to follow the same procedure, or are things still set for me to update again? Thanks again!

Virex eUpdate .. outdated

Any help for 7.5.1 users?
Would appreciate any suggestions.

Arial ou Helvetica ?

Just surfed in and found this really interesting place here. A lot of good stuff for everybody. Go on like this and i will surely visit your site again sometime.

Non à la guerre en Iraq!

Just surfed in and found this really interesting place here. A lot of good stuff for everybody. Go on like this and i will surely visit your site again sometime.

Software Update Glitch

Hi:

I'm having similar problems. I've tried the solutions posted here, but none work. None of the updates will install. Here's what happens from the command line. Any help would be greatly appreciated. - Pete.

[shadow:/usr/bin] pete% sudo softwareupdate -a -i
Password:
Software Update Tool
Copyright 2002-2003 Apple Computer, Inc.

QuickTime: 0...10...20...30...40...
Java 1.4.2 Update 2: 0...10...20...30...40...
Security Update 2004-09-16: 0...10...20...30...40...
Security Update 2004-10-27: 0...10...20...30...40...
iTunes: 0...10...20...30...40...
AirPort Software: 0...10...20...30...40...
iCal: 0...10...20...30...40...
iPod Updater 2005-03-23: 0...10...20...30...40...
Mac OS X Update Combined: 0...10...20...30...40...
QuickTime: 0...10...20...30...40...50..2005-03-31 10:05:01.137 softwareupdate[15462] Exception raised during posting of notification. Ignored. exception: Some files for QuickTime652 may not have been written correctly. (code 11)
.60...70...80...902005-03-31 10:05:03.725 softwareupdate[15462] NSInstallFailedNotification: {
Message = "Some files for QuickTime652 may not have been written correctly. (code 11)";
},
Failed

To try again, choose Download Only from the Update menu, then open the package from the Finder.
2005-03-31 10:05:03.727 softwareupdate[15462] didn't delete /tmp/0/TemporaryItems/com.apple.SoftwareUpdate/QuickTime652.pkg, failed safety check

Java 1.4.2 Update 2: 0...10...20...30...40...50.2005-03-31 10:05:05.838 softwareupdate[15462] Exception raised during posting of notification. Ignored. exception: Some files for Java142Update2 may not have been written correctly. (code 11)
..60...70...80...902005-03-31 10:05:07.869 softwareupdate[15462] NSInstallFailedNotification: {
Message = "Some files for Java142Update2 may not have been written correctly. (code 11)";
},
Failed

To try again, choose Download Only from the Update menu, then open the package from the Finder.
2005-03-31 10:05:07.871 softwareupdate[15462] didn't delete /tmp/0/TemporaryItems/com.apple.SoftwareUpdate/Java142Update2.pkg, failed safety check

Security Update 2004-09-16: 0...10...20...30...40...50..2005-03-31 10:05:09.858 softwareupdate[15462] Exception raised during posting of notification. Ignored. exception: Some files for SecUpd2004-09-16Pan may not have been written correctly. (code 11)
.60...70...80...902005-03-31 10:05:12.518 softwareupdate[15462] NSInstallFailedNotification: {
Message = "Some files for SecUpd2004-09-16Pan may not have been written correctly. (code 11)";
},
Failed

To try again, choose Download Only from the Update menu, then open the package from the Finder.
2005-03-31 10:05:12.520 softwareupdate[15462] didn't delete /tmp/0/TemporaryItems/com.apple.SoftwareUpdate/SecUpd2004-09-16Pan.pkg, failed safety check

Security Update 2004-10-27: 0...10...20...30...40...50..2005-03-31 10:05:14.224 softwareupdate[15462] Exception raised during posting of notification. Ignored. exception: Some files for SecurityUpdate2004-10-27Pan may not have been written correctly. (code 11)
.60...70...80...902005-03-31 10:05:16.888 softwareupdate[15462] NSInstallFailedNotification: {
Message = "Some files for SecurityUpdate2004-10-27Pan may not have been written correctly. (code 11)";
},
Failed

Software Update Glitch

I had a similar problem to what Kristian posted on February 9, but my /tmp simlink was completely gone. I first noticed the problem when I couldn't print--at all!

For non-UNIX types, the shareware app Printer Setup Repair from Fixamac Software really did the trick for me. No, I don't work for them--didn't even buy the app because I'm a poor grad student, but I would recommend it to anyone with this problem or something similar.

Virex eUpdate .. outdated

When I tried this (on the free version of Virex 7.5 that I got with my .Mac membership) the FTP item on the Type dropdown was grayed out. I could not select it. Can you help me with this?

Non à la guerre en Iraq!

craig i think you are right and don't get me wrong i am not for the war in irak and all the thousands of dead we see everyday...but i have hope that things will work even with a man like bush leading the whole situation. It is too easy to say "moi je suis pour un desarmement pacifique avec l'objectif de paix" because how do you figure out that one enters irak and desarms the country without attacking?
especially with saddam hussein in power and the so many number of terrorists?

Les crocs

To survive in this hart competition you must deliver something special. And that is what you definitely do. So go on like this, it’s really great.

Rentré{e}

I just surfed in this interesting place. The competition is incredible but with a little luck and good connections you can get to the top. Good luck my friend.

General Protection Fault

Does anybody know why? I can’t believe that this is really true! But often the things are not as they seem to be in this coloured world…

Non à la guerre en Iraq!

A friend told me of your site. He said that I will find just the information here I was looking for. That was definitely right. Good work.

Arial ou Helvetica ?

You surely have one of the most interesting sites in net. I believe in your way of doing, so go on this way. It’ surely the right way.

Mail.app HotMail plugin

i had a similar issue with project management lessons

Non à la guerre en Iraq!

I can't understand some of your comments...
"avec les atrociter que les americains et anglais on fait la en iraq" - have you not seen pictures of thousands of Kurds killed by Hussein? Cela se sont des atrociters.
"juste de dire " crime" et terrorisme contre un peuple affaibli et démuni socialement
un peuple sans defense et sans armes par rapport à toute l'arsenal utilisé par les américains et les britanniques..." - The war wasn't against the civilians, it was against the Hussein Regime, which by the way, was certainly not without defence. They had hundreds of ballistic missiles capable of reaching any country in the Middle East. Their army was being rebuilt after the desasterous war against Iran, which the Americans helped to fund. (Well, actually the Americans funded both sides of that war, but that's another story)...
Iraq was not a peaceful country before the Gulf War, it was not a peaceful country after the Gulf War. We can only hope that once the Americans withdraw from Iraq that then, and only then, will it be peaceful.

Software Update Glitch

A quick sudo su and softwareupdate didn't do it - but going back to Software Update after sudo su worked.

Weird.

Software Update Glitch

Having same problem. Looking over the suggestions it seemed that this was easiest to implement (thanks Greg):

"When I did softwareupdate -a -i, I noticed that update was trying to download from akamai.net. I had akamai servers blocked in my router/firewall when I was trying to gid rid of adware servers. Come to find out, it's the server Apple uses to distribute software! I unblocked the server, and now everything works fine again."

I use Little Snitch to block some apps from unauthorized communication. I freed up Software Update from connection restrictions and immediately had some success where the error msg had previously prevented installation. Some success. Some programs still didn't load.

So I tried Software Update again, and more updates were installed, but again not all. Once more did the trick.

Doesn't make any sense to me, but that's not unusual. You'd think there would be a common thread among these solutions...

Software Update Glitch

You don't know how long I've been frustrated with this! Thanks for the help...I used Pacifist to install gnutar and tar. Voila--Software Update is back!

Jason

iTrip Station Finder

Ummm... heres the deal... we can buy itrips in canada... how come we pay for these things and then don't recive the same service as the US,,, get a staion finder for Canada

Rentré{e}

great joy being here..good work.

Non à la guerre en Iraq!

To survive in this hart competition you must deliver something special. And that is what you definitely do. So go on like this, it’s really great.

Arial ou Helvetica ?

Can’t you just say what you mean? I don’t really understand all this. But I like the way you do it. I can surely learn a lot on your sites. Thanks

Software Update Glitch

I am running System Panther 10.3.6 on a G-4 Dual 500 Mhz. When I try to install a new piece of software, either through an installer or just dragging and dropping, I get the following message: "The finder cannot complete the operation because some data in 'fdi0rcv.3me' could not be read. (Error code-36).
Does anyone have a solution to this problem? I am not computer literate enough to do the solutions as proposed above.
Thank you.

Non à la guerre en Iraq!

A vrai dire il ne faut pas nommer ce cqui se passe en iraq sous le titre "guerre " mais il est plus juste de dire " crime" et terrorisme contre un peuple affaibli et démuni socialement
un peuple sans defense et sans armes par rapport à toute l'arsenal utilisé par les américains et les britanniques...

DVD copy

I am an eMac Superdrive user, using FAst DVD copy for first time. My home DVD player cannot read DVD-R discs but when I try to see movies copied by a friend of mine with a PC, then even if are copied on a DVD-R disc, my home player can read the.

Also my player can read many of the copies DVD movies we bought when living in Asia. No problems.

All this is quite strange, because when I copy with Fast DVD copy, using same type of disc my home player cannot read it.

How this can be ?

Is there anything to set in FAst DVD copy application ?

I read in their website that this application can only use DVD-R. IS that the reason and why other DVD-R can be read ?

Hope somebody can solve this problem, because I don't want to buy a new video system just for this.

Thanks

Pods Unite

You can find the Pods Unite Ad at www.apple.com/hardware/ads/vw !!!!!!

Non à la guerre en Iraq!

je pense qu'une election en iraq actuellement est

totalemane imposible parce avec les atrociter que les americains et anglais on fait la en iraq pour
quoi qu'elqu'un qui a perdu toute sa famille son job sa maison sa ville pour qoui est ce que vous voulez qu'il parte voter?

Non à la guerre en Iraq!

je pense qu'une election en iraq actuellement est

totalemane imposible parce avec les atrociter que les americains et anglais on fait la en iraq pour
quoi qu'elqu'un qui a perdu toute sa famille son job sa maison sa ville pour qoui est ce que vous voulez qu'il parte voter?

Software Update Glitch

What were the problems with Apple Remote Desktop and software update? The old to the apple forums have died.

Software Update Glitch

I had the same problem with Software Update giving me the "make sure you have permissions to /tmp/501/TemporaryItems/com.apple.SoftwareUpdate" and after trying numerous possible solutions, I finally figured out what was wrong! When I did softwareupdate -a -i, I noticed that update was trying to download from akamai.net. I had akamai servers blocked in my router/firewall when I was trying to gid rid of adware servers. Come to find out, it's the server Apple uses to distribute software! I unblocked the server, and now everything works fine again. *sigh*

Bombing for peace

j'adore ton site bravoooooooo

Les crocs

good work

General Protection Fault

Just surfed in and found this really interesting place here. A lot of good stuff for everybody.
Go on like this and i will surely visit your site again sometime.

Les crocs

I love your site. It´s really a pleasure to read through all this interesting stuff and it home.

Another one of these days

After a long search, I finally found your site. My granny used to say, that you must never give up to reach a certain aim.
So keep on going like I did it recently.

March again

Really good work. I found a lot of profound information which can help me to go on. Thanks for all this input.

Software Update Glitch

Kristian,

Thank you so much for your post at http://www.macinblog.com/2004/02/software_update.html.

After much wading through endless discussions and recommendations, your suggestion ACTUALLY WORKED!!!

I don't understand terminal too well but I am grateful for your post.

I hope that others will benefit from this.

In my case, I did not encounter that particular error message "make sure you have permissions to write to /tmp/501/ ..." until I tried to install Apple's Security Update 9-30-2004 on my G4 running10.3.5. And then other apps wouldn't install either.

But your fix worked and no problems since.

Thank you.

-Greg

Software Update Glitch

great tip - thanks! I run ARD to admin several machines and ran into this issue while doing a remote software update. admittedly the tip posted by Rick was the one that worked - just running software update from the command line:

% softwareupdate -a -i

but thanks for providing the thread!

Should Apple integrate Bochs ?

OpenOSX are swindling people- they do not follow GNU ethics, and have been in a conflict with Fink maintainters. Check out the email correspondence between the Fink maintainter and OpenOSX boss at the Fink homepages. It is not nice. Apparently, some people just want to make money by repackaging others work, and disrespect and exploit others work and their priciples of non-materialism.

Software Update Glitch

Thanks tyo and Mango, it was tar and gnutar :P

Software Update Glitch

I had the same problem when using automatic update, I checked all above tips and I found no problems. A reboot & running softwareupdate -a -i as root seemed to fix the problem on 3 out of 4 machines. I assume that it was a faulty download? anyway more interesting is that I had moved my sever admin tools folder (after installation) from Applications/Server to Applications/Utilities/Server just to tuck it away from curious students. Software update continually tried to update the Applications/Server (noted by a folder named "server" magically applearing after repeated updates) I have since moved it back to the Applications folder and all seems well.

Software Update Glitch

I had the same problem installing on my son's B&W G3. Then I remembered I had installed Dansguardian which is a Net Nanny kind of thing that prevents the lad from visiting pornographic web sites (accidentally, of course). Dansguardian works by installing a proxy server on the local Mac (on his B&W G3). I disabled the proxy server in the Network preferences, installed the updates, and then re-enabled the proxy settings. Voila! HTH.

Panther: FireWire data corruption resolved

We have seen two PowerBook G4 (GigaBit, 667 MHz) with a blown internal firewire port after connecting a external self powered 400 firewire RAID drive. The RAID works just fine on a G# or G$ desktop and works fine with a $17 PCMICA IEEE 1394 CardBus pluged into the PowerBook. Both PowerBooks run 10.3, the desktops run 10.2.

Safari's default FTP

No its not so cool when you type in the wrong ftp adress, the finder tries to open it but it can't so finder crashes, restart is only thing possible, anyone a solution how to browse FTP instead of finder FTP ?

Software Update Glitch

no idea what the above means really (sudu etc) but i did it and it worked. have now installed 10.3.4 without this prob. thanks!!

Software Update Glitch

thanks to tyio for the tip...i had installed Xcode and later uninstalled it b/c it ate too much disk space. however, even after i removed it, my updates worked for a while. go figure. i have to download and manually install updates at the moment. while it's a bit of a pian, as long as that's the worst problem i have, i'll be ok

HFS+ Fragmentation

While I am a huge fan of AlSoft's Disk Warrior (disclaimer: I knew Al and a bunch of his employees) and go to it first to fix things because it's better and non-destructive (until I tell it to be), I never could bring myself to run PlusOptimizer (AlSoft's defrag tool) in the real-time continuous optimizer mode he recommended.

But I'm pretty sure the PlusOptimizer was safe in the listed conditions and was designed to be fail-safe (i.e. if it failed due to a bug, it was supposed to be able to recover, just like his drive fixing utilities.)

The down side of optimizing was always if you had a corrupt B-tree and two files "owned" the same block and one moved it. I always ran DiskWarrior/Norton/Disk First Aid first, and didn't optimize unless I was clean.

But yeah, I appeciate OS X and not needing to defrag for performance reasons.

Should Apple integrate Bochs ?

I wish I would have done more research before getting openOSX's WinTel. It is PAINFULLY SLOW!! And it took at least 10 hours to do an install of Windows 2000. Sheesh. Contact to OpenOSX goes unanswered, there goes 25 bucks. An inexpensive lesson, but a lesson nonetheless. I'll just wait until the beta of Epicad's Sync Again so I can sync my Blackberry. Once that's complete and functional, Windows be damned.

Software Update Glitch

This won't solve your problem as you haven't installed Xcode on your server. But for those who did:

From mango:

Well, I found out what was preventing Software Update from working. Apple's uninstaller for Xcode also uninstalled "tar" and "gnutar" from /usr/bin. I had to use Pacifist to manually extract and install those two components from the base package on my Panther disk. Thanks, Apple. Nicely done with that uninstaller.

http://www.macfixitforums.com/php/printthread.php?Cat=&Board=Forum35&main=604099&type=thread

Non à la guerre en Iraq!

i m with peace as i heate to see this picture before from saddam and what i see know is really something i can not imagine it and i think what is the diference between this and what saddam did
peace for all the world jewis ,christian,muslime, and all other differen t relegion and hetnicity.
peace for world.

Non à la guerre en Iraq!

Ce que font les americains et les anglais en Iraq est plus pire que ce que Saddam a fait subir aux kurdes en les bombardant de bombes chimiques et du napalme.
Ou est-t-elle cette démocratie que Georges .W.Bush et son bras droit Tony Blaire veulent instaurer en Iraq à leurs facon, c'est à dire mettre la main sur le petrole iraquienEn Haiti ou il n'y a ni petrole ni richesse qui puisse interesser les Bush et cie les haitiens sont entrain de s'entretuer et partout dans le monde, mais en Iraq le petrole est vital pour eux et ils veullent mettre a la tete de ce pays des pions avec lesquels il peuvent faire ce qu ils veullent.
Honte a Bush et a Blaire et a tous ceux qui les appuient.

MP3Concept (MP3Virus.Gen)

I got somthing like this and didn't understand what that was.

General Protection Fault

Jeudi 1er avril, le poisson a un goût amer... shit really happens... :/
http://egoes.blogs.com/photos/mobile/img204.html

3 candles for Mac OS X

Sorry we kept you waiting for so long. MacPay X has been released today and is available for download right now.
But don't tell us we were the ones to pull the plug on another faithful OS 9 config. Because, yes, OS X is three, but its predecessor kept us going for 20 years. After all we wouldn't be there without it.

Best regards from the Quartesoft Team.

Address Book Map function in Europe

Thanx so much the Mappy Address Book is just what
I was looking for.

Asynchronous cron jobs

Thanx, you really saved me with MacJanitor and Cocktail the've been really helpfull.
FlashAddict.

Photoshop 8, Illustrator 11 and InDesign 3

well.. this is not exactly a comment but i was just wondering.. is there such thing as Adobe Photoshop 11? or the latest version is Adobe Photoshop 8?

Asynchronous cron jobs

hi,

i have been using Macaroni for quite some time now and i'm perfectly happy with it! I don't have to think of the cron jobs etc. at all!

just my two cents...

joerg

PS: thanks for the "mappy" tip. it's aweseome

Address Book Map function in Europe

Last week I found on the same site two other plugins that work with "Viamichelin" and "Citée futée". For some reason, the developer has pulled out the information concerning these, but the URLs still seem to work:

http://jeangabi.steinmetz.free.fr/Fichiers/Plug-ins_Viamichelin.dmg
http://jeangabi.steinmetz.free.fr/Fichiers/Plug-in_Citefutee.dmg

Software Update Glitch

Here's my fix to this exact same problem. After much glomming over web pages and documentation, and looking at my install logs that failed because of this /tmp/501 permissions problem, I noticed one thing. I was getting errors trying to install anything, be it Software Updates or 3rd party applications. Nothing would install, and Software Update kept giving me the "Make sure you have permission to write to the /tmp/501 blah blah blah folder". The one thing common with all my failed installs was the failure to write to a temporary file or folder.

I found a website that listed some of the default symbolic links for OS X. I logged on as Root from the command line (sudo su), and did a CD / to get to the root folder. From there, I did an "ls -l" to see all the files and symlinks in the root folder. And there it was. What was supposed to be a symbolic link called "tmp" was actually a FILE called "tmp". That's what was causing me all the temporary folder issues. There was no link to the real folder.

I did an "rm tmp" to delete the file. Then, recreated the proper symbolic link by doing an "ln -s /private/tmp tmp".

To see if this would help, I stayed on the command line and did the command line version of software update (softwareupdate -a -i). Voila! Success! No more "Make sure you have permission to write to /tmp/501/TemporaryItems/com.apple.SoftwareUpdate, then try again."!!!

By the way, as a comparison to your situation, I did the last Apple Remote Desktop update back in December, and hadn't tried Software Update until this week again. That's when I began investigating and ran across your blog with the same error message I was getting.

I couldn't try the XCode thing because I couldn't install ANY software at all.

So, this may or may not be the *fix* for this problem for everyone, but it certainly bears checking out if you're having this damn message crop up.

iBook logic board problem recognised

I have an iBook with the dreaded logic board problem. Do you think that there is any chance of getting it fixed by Apple. The serial number is out of the range they specify.
Brett

Software Update Glitch

I get this once in a while when the installer file doesn't get downloaded completely and Software Update tries to install from the incomplete file. This happens usually with a large file like the recent Java 1.4.2 update.

The Sloganizer

Ich kann gut pissen!

From T to T3

Chris,

Basically you can't make iSync and Palm Desktop work together. Or rather, one set of data can only be synched with one conduit (Datebook -> Address Book via iSync OR Datebook -> Palm Desktop via Palm Contact Conduit).

You can choose to iSync your Addresses and not your Calendars, or the reverse, but you can't iSync AND HotSync to Palm Desktop at the same time.

I agree with you. The Palm iSync is still imperfect and not pratical to use. The simple fact that HotSync must initiate the process is annoying. Moreover, data eventually gets corrupted and iSync reports inconsistencies and suggest to reset the device .. which makes you start from scratch, loosing all the categories attributions etc.

Guess it'll work properly some day, but I'm frightened that might entail a rewrite of how Palm OS deals with its data. I mean, look at Contacts, you still can't assign two addresses to a single record, and it still is very much has it was back in the 80'ties when US Robotics released the first Palm Pilot
:/

From T to T3

I have had similar problems with isync and T3. It finally clicked on the differnet names for the conduits, but I don't really understand how you then managed to make isync work with Palm desktop. I tried re-installing both programs without success and have abandoned it at the moment waiting for Apple to list the T3 as a supported device for isync 3 (it still isn't)

Any help gratefully received.

Chris

European ITMS Q2 2004

Another article on Forbes

> Apple's iTunes European debut held up by red tape

http://www.forbes.com/home_europe/newswire/2004/01/24/rtr1225563.html

Happy Birthday Macintosh

Well..my mother sure remembers that day....she was giving birth to me....lol

European ITMS Q2 2004

In an article today in the french newspaper Figaro, Pascal Nègre, the president of Universal France, states that 2004 will see the introduction of Apple's iTunes Music Store.
Let's just hope it's not for Christmas!

> 2004 sera l'année où l'on verra arriver en Europe et en France
> un certain nombre de plates-formes payantes comme iTunes Music store d'Apple.

http://www.figaro.fr/eco-medias/20040121.FIG0314.html

Arial ou Helvetica ?

oñ ´²ouver un download gratuit pour Helvetica windows ??? Merci

From T to T3

For those who asked: in order to use Palm Desktop under Mac OS 10.3 (Panther), it needs to be installed as root. That worked for me.

In order to login to your Mac as user root and doing a fresh install. Make sure you have the the latest iSync palm conduit installed too.

Enabling root access: If you use NetInfo Manager (in /Applications/Utilities/) to enable the root account, log out, log in as root, install Palm Desktop, log out, log in as yourself, relaunch NetInfo Mgr and disable root, it works fine.

Orig: Palm BrightHand Forums:
http://discussion.brighthand.com/palmhandhelds/showthread.php?s=19d002847730a9a2c27e96347f1c3f58&threadid=46063&perpage=10&pagenumber=1

ecto public beta

ecto 0.1.7 was released last night and corrects all the above mentionned problems. Thanks Adriaan.

ecto public beta

I'm experiencing a couple of problems with this release which were absent from the previous betas:

+ the HTML templates keyboard shortcuts don't work.
+ the backspace key works like the tab key when you're in the Title field: instead of erasing the previous character, it switches to the "Main" pane.

Anybody notice such behaviours ? I'm sure Adriaan is going to squash these before you finish reading this. He is extremely responsive.

ecto public beta

can't wait for this proggie.... i *heart* kung-log and am looking forward to trying out the latest n greatest version :)

iLife 04 translations

Very true. Actually, it's not before I read the 1st French translation that I fully understood what the English one was all about ..

iLife 04 translations

That's funny. The new French translation works well now but even I had (and still have trouble) with the English version. Every time I read it, I can not for the life of me dismiss the idea that we are stuck with MS Office for the duration of our lives. And then I can not figure how iLife is supposed to correct that torture -- except as relief.

Virex eUpdate .. outdated

Personally, I've given up on Virex and switch to Intego's Virus Barrier, which offers active protection and updates that actually work.

http://intego.com/virusbarrier/home.html

Too bad for Virex and it's fake protection - too bad for dot Mac too..
:(

Mind you, Virex 7 Scripts worked for me.

http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/17452

A J2O for Jamie

oui je connai c t'un jeu

Bombing for peace

pourais-tu m'envoyer des photos d仕icac仔 de toi

Bisous.

Bombing for peace

pourais-tu m'envoyer des photos d仕icac仔 de toi

Bisous.

iFlex

I knew you would be reading ..

;)

Make the most of the sun, sand and sea. It's freezing (and grey) here.

Lithium-based battery usage

I think it's OK (if not preferred) to freeze a lithium battery for storage. BatteryUniversity says not to freeze, but their tablulated data shows differently. I think they mis-stated the freeze thing.

Hibernation

You must be fighting with what more and more people must be experiencing: too much online content to manage.

I am wondering if in some time someone should come up with a way of organizing all the different bits and parts that we get to scatter online.

If I take my experience, I have 3 personal blogs, 2 or 3 where I am an author, 1 wiki, 3 or 4 digital photo albums, 1 mobile phone photo album, 1 web site for my film photography, 1 corporate website and plenty of projects that I just can't commit to by lack of time. And I'm not talking about all the personal pages that I have on many web sites.

The problem now, is that what was meant to help me organize data and ideas is getting somewhat disorganized and I feel the need to have some sort of central starting point where I can have an overview on all of my data.

Maybe Apple should come up with some sort of "data hub" in reference to the concept of "digital hub" they have managed to create. See it like yet another online service that would serve as a entry point to all of your online real estate.

I don't know if this makes sense or if it is pure utopia...

iFlex

Let me put a final touch on my sun tan in Mexico and I'll get you one of these on the MacMice booth as soon as I get there! ;-)

Printing labels from Address Book

I tried to download your script but the site is pass protected.

xScope: measure, align and inspect

my favourite feature is the zoom with htm/hex colour dropper. holy smoking carp! :)

-m

iDVD 3.0.1 without a SuperDrive

*** REVISED QUESTION I JUST ASKED***

This might be a question you have been asked, but I have not yet found a 100% direct answer...

I have a G4 MAC running Final Cut Pro 3.0.4 on OSX and iDVD on OS9. I recently purchesed iLife, (for the iDVD 3 upgrade to run on OSX with Jaguar). Since buying (and waiting to receive it) I've been reading about needing a "superdrive" How do I know if my Mac G4 has one? I have been burning iDVD 1 without a problem. Is it safe to assume I have it built in or how can check? Thank you in advance for your help!

iDVD 3.0.1 without a SuperDrive

This might be a question you have been asked, but I have not yet found a 100% direct answer...

I have a G4 MAC running Final Cut Pro 3.0.4 on OSX and iDVD on OS9. I recently purchesed iLife, (for the iDVD 3 upgrade). Since buying (and waiting to receive it) I've been reading about needing a "superdrive" How do I know if my Mac G$ has one? I have been burning iDVD 1 without a problem. Is it safe to assume I have it built in or how can check? Thank you in advance for your help!

Shane

L'Académie Française adopte Courriel

Messieurs,

Je suis Anglais, je travaille ˆ Londres et ˆ mon avis il faut savoir dŽfendre une langue.

Personellement je prŽfre «courriel», parce que le mot «e-mail» n'est gure issu de l'espace culturel franais, mais plutôt des personnes du genre de M. Bill Gates.

Tout en respectant le pluralisme, je dirais mme que le foulard islamique est un symbole religieux qui n'a rien a voir avec l'Žcole et le lycŽe rŽpublicains.

Il faut donc savoir dire «non!».

Vous avez une langue. Vous avez une RŽpublique.

RŽsistez, citoyens!

Panther: archiving in ZIP format

I haven't had a chance to play with it yet as my copy of panther isn't arriving until friday, but from what I understand Panther .zip are for the most part completely normal zip files unless the files you are archiving have HFS resource forks. If this is the case it stores the resource fork for somefile.ext as ._somefile.ext Then when it expands them it puts them back magically. The problem comes if you upzip them with a standard unziping program. The resource forks are never merged again. For most files this isn't a problem. If it is, this MacOSXHints page shows how to set the correct unzipper as your default and even provides an AppleScript to repair archives that have already been unzipped with a different tool.

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20031023155808534

Panther: Mail.app add-ons

Yes, you are right, except that the image has to be present in your Address Book (or .Mac):

[quote]

Mac OS X seems to already have what MailPictures claims to provide --- what's the deal?

While Mac OS X provides the core functionality of displaying images in Mail or iChat, it is limited to either pictures you manually have assigned in the AddressBook and to .Mac accounts. With MailPictures any email address can have an image and there is no need to manually assign an image to a person. So if I (mailpictures@nikwest.de) send an email to you my image will magically pop up in the email message. There is nothing you have to do besides having MailPictures installed.

[/quote]

Panther: Mail.app add-ons

I don't think MailPicture is really necessary anymore, as the Panther version of Mail does this itself finally!

Correct me if I'm mistaken...

Panther: Mail.app add-ons

Wow, someone still uses the ad-ridden VersionTracker?

MacUpdate has, in the last year or so, totally surpassed VT in website quality.

iTrip Station Finder

For those who are Windows-limited, or want an alternative to the software provided, "Station-Finder", formerly the MIT List of Broadcast Stations, can find all the audible stations for a given city in US/Canada. Site is free.

www.station-finder.com.

New software releases

Nice site you have!

Kung-Log : new cocoa version

Nice site you have!

Post your Safari GUI wishes

Nice site you have!

Post your Safari GUI wishes

Nice site you have!

Panther: FireWire data corruption resolved

Please be cautious with FW 400 drives.

Burn multi-session CDs from the Finder

I don't see why not, it should work just fine whatever the OS, whatever the sessions.

Virex eUpdate .. outdated

Still no luck using instructions as described on panther.

Virex eUpdate .. outdated

Thx for the info i was about to give up on Virex, I have a PC as well and for 5 years I have had Norton in the 5 years I have had no complains, everything updates they have new updates all the time, my system has been great in all that time. I got the virex for my mac and it was "welcome to hell" have you guys visited the virex site for the epdates OMG I think blind man made the site, you just cant seem to get to what u need. I was about to trash this prog if it wasnt for htis post.

Virex eUpdate .. outdated

Thank you my friend! You have now calmed a f@!%ing annoyed and Virex eUpdate frustrated person.

Amazing what a tiny bit of knowledge can do!

BlogSPAMmed

I have found this other useful link to "Seven quick tips for a spam-free blog"

http://cheerleader.yoz.com/archives/000849.html

Burn multi-session CDs from the Finder

Can the cd be read inbetween the session making times on different machines? I have 2 labs, one is OS 9 the other OSX. They will both be OSX by the end of the semester, but for now the students need to go from one to the other, will this be a problem?

BlogSPAMmed

SixApart (the company behind MovableType) has a recent post talking about this issue. It's good to know that they are fully aware of the problem.

http://www.sixapart.com/log/2003/10/comment_spam.shtml

sunday afternoon with typepad

Good to meet you, and looking forward to seeing more photo's soon :).

BlogSPAMmed

Thanks for the tip Judi! I'll be trying it too as soon as it is released.

BlogSPAMmed

I just posted about comment spam this afternoon to my own blog, and I've commented with this helpful link to two other sites. So many people are talking the issue. A plug-in is due tomorrow that hopes to help us with this problem. I'm looking forward to trying it:

http://www.jayallen.org/journey/2003/10/mtblacklist_monday_hell_or_high_water

I'm not spamming with the link. I have no idea who the author is other than he seems to know what he's talking about and I'm really tired of the spam like everyone else. :-)

on the move

Thanks! I was wondering why I only managed to post pics and not text ..

Virex eUpdate .. outdated

Hey, this was great. Thank you. I passed it along to the mac genius I know, just in case they'd like the heads up.

Les crocs

Bien d'accord, tout pareil pour moi. Me suis fait une raison et n'hŽsite pas ˆ investir un peu plus pour avoir un service clientle qui tient la route, surtout pour tout ce qui est informatique. Courage !

Apple's new logo

Looks like they've been talking with the folks over at UPS.

Virex eUpdate .. outdated

Still having a problem, too. Still cannot update...

Apple's new logo

I miss the blue, but then again blue has always been my favorite color. But I do love the new modernistic look. Modern, sleek looks appeal to me. There's something artistic about it, but that's jmho.

Finder rename bug

If you hit the ESC button after it gives you the annoying dialog, then it will rename the file

OS half life

Perhaps you almost just ran out of memory, including harddisk storage at some time. That is the only time when I loose settings and the system is acting up like you describe. I have a G3 server running for a 120 days or thereabouts, and after I tried to install SETI at home, it wrote an endless amount of cr.. in the system log. I almost had to reboot, but caught it at less than a megabyte free on the harddisk. Oh, well, the ssh-key broke, but that's life ;-)

Javascript in Mac Browsers

JavaScript does not work on a Mac Brousers but it works on a PC. Why?

Finder rename bug

Hmm... I can't repeat that bug.... but I remember I had the same strange behavior some time ago.

Finder rename bug

Strange, I can't reproduce this behavior. I also didn't get a dialog warning me about changing the filename extension, it just changed.

iDVD 3.0.1 without a SuperDrive

What isn't cool is when you buy a new Power Mac G4 two weeks after iDVD 3 is announced, *have* a superdrive, but Apple wants fifty dollars for iLife or twenty dollars for "shipping" for software you're entitled to have. Am searching the net once again trying to find someone who has posted iDVD 3.0 to which he's legally entitled. Frustration.

Apple's Free Online Digital Photography Seminar

i meant "backdrop" not "desktop"....

Apple's Free Online Digital Photography Seminar

i wish apple would do a more professional job at this. I signed up for the "seminar." It's mostly a glorified infomercial. It's filmed with a desk and ugly blue desktop and two hosts, one of whom continually says "uh" and looks away from the camera to read his notes. So far, 18 minutes into the video, the only thing I've "learned" is that going digital will pay for itself in a couple of months, and I can use all the same lenses I've used in the past on the new high end digital camera I purchased. Oh, and Mac is easy. Yeah, great. How about some actual instruction?

Happy Birthday Olivier!

So quiet lately. Any more comment please.

Virex 7.2.1 released

I from Chile

A new Google feature

Thanks for that tip! Marvelous. half a cup in liters etc. works as well. Good, when you live in Europe with the meters and liters system and have Ammerican cookbooks :-)

egoes.blogs.com

Si je peux me permettre de paraphraser un panneau vu dans une librairie de Montmartre:

"Ce ne sont pas des images justes, ce sont juste des images".

thanks d)

;-)

Rentré{e}

Salut,

Bon courage pour ton retour "hors vacances".

Undo

Salut,

Comment nous fixons-nous sur ce qui se dissout perp師uellement ?....

YourSQL, a Mac OS X MySQL client

I tried out YourSQL but found another one called CocoaMySQL and it had a lot more features. Now I'm helping improve CocoaMySQL (because it too is open source). I highly recommend it.

Mail.app HotMail plugin

Count me in please.

Virex eUpdate .. outdated

Thanks for the infomation - unfortunately, I'm getting the following error message:

"Virex is unable to connect to eUpdate server. Please try again later. You can skip the eUpdate and continue using Virex."

I have filled out the correct information perfectly as stated above, so maybe someone can tell me what the problem is.

Thanks in advance.

iDVD 3.0.1 without a SuperDrive

cool!! thanks for the tip.

Virex eUpdate .. outdated

Thank you!!! This had me worried and then frustrated when I could not find an answer! Finally found this page on a Google search. Thank you again!

Virex eUpdate .. outdated

The topmost post by Davo works!

Thank goodness we computer savy consumers can support ourselves with forums like these that are searchable on Google. Many, many thanx to Davo for spearheading this topic. Shame on software companies! :-(

Virex eUpdate .. outdated

Thank you, Thank you, Thank You!!

HarvL

Virex eUpdate .. outdated

Thanks! This works great - but maybe I should just get the Norton version that works with OX-X - Whatever one says about Symantic, they seem to suport their stuff

Bombing for peace

coucou,

j'adore avril lavigne,j'ai fais un site sur elle sur mon site il y a pleins de photos et des information en plus.Elle super cool comme fille,on dirait une petite fille qu'on veut prot使er,ses musiciens sont pour elle des fr俊es a part Jesse colburn qui est a la Bass, il est pour avril son petit ami et oui, des photos d'eux tr峻 proche on 師ait prise sur une plage australienne sur mon site il y en a une!! Venez le visiter !!!

@++++

kiss a tous les fans d'avril lavigne !

http://avril-lavigne.populus.ch

Arial ou Helvetica ?

Interessant, mais où trouver un download gratuit pour Helvetica windows ???

Sony Ericsson Clicker

So you bought a t68i thinking it would sync up all the events from your Mac did you? And now you're disappointed and find the phone useless as a calendar because you can never be sure if you're free on a certain day or not? Well...

I strongly suggest that you immediately send a quick note to the President of Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications about this matter. He can be contacted by:

e-mail katsumi.ihara@sonyericsson.com

Mr. Katsumi Ihara

Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications Ltd.

Sony Ericsson House

202 Hammersmith Road

W6 7DN London

United Kingdom

Below are a couple of links to some examples of messages published by Sony Ericsson that led me to believe I was purchasing a phone that would synchronise ALL of my calendar events not only SOME of those events.

On these pages, you will find claims containing keywords like "up-to-date", "compatible", "same" and "accurate", such as:

* "Apple's hot new synchronizing software keeps your iCal information and Mac OS X Address Book up-to-date on your Bluetooth-enabled mobile phone"

* "This product [iSync] is compatible with the following Sony Ericsson phones: ... T68i"

* "the same up to date address book and calendars everywhere ñ on their Mac and in their pocket"

* "customers using the new Sony Ericsson T68i phone are ... keeping their ... calendar up-to-date between their Mac and their phone"

* "You can have your ... calendar with you wherever you go, and you'll know the information is accurate"

http://www.sonyericsson.com/spg.jsp?page=gis&Redir=page%3DC2_1_50%26B%3Die

http://www.sonyericsson.com/spg.jsp?page=gis&Redir=page%3Dc_bluetooth%26B%3Die

That e-mail address again was mailto:katsumi.ihara@sonyericsson.com

Refer your request for a solution this this address now!

iTunesitis ?

Have a look at this page: http://www.buymusicsucks.com/

;-)

Kim

Virex eUpdate .. outdated

Exceelent. Many thanks.

RendezVous between networks

There is another article on this subject here:

http://www.afp548.com/Articles/Jaguar/mtunnels.html

The tip uses a java application called mTunnel

http://www.cdt.luth.se/~peppar/progs/mTunnel/

that creates a multicast tunnel between two distant networks.

This allows to see servers, printers and more with the convenience of RendezVous. However, it seems like it does not work with all services. For example, iChat won't show you the users on the remote network.

Mail.app HotMail plugin

Count me in please.

Accessible Biometric ID for Mac OS X

Law of supply and demand. There are very few solutions for the Mac (this is actually the first one I have found) We are looking for a biometric solution that will work for both PCs and Macs authenticating to AD

Petite journée

Thanks mate..

;)

Petite journée

Hola Ami,

Parfois, au lieu de gravir la pente, il vaut mieux contourner le mont. La vue y est diffŽrente, les fleurs tout aussi belles, et on se fatigue moins. Tu pourras toujours attaquer la colline une fois arrivŽ de l'autre côtŽ, elle sera toujours lˆ quoique tu fasse.

Tu fais un sport de compŽtition où tu encha”nes Žpreuve sur Žpreuve. Prends du repos, fais un pas en arrire, pour mieux en faire deux en avant. Quand a sent le burnout, lve le pied. On arrivera tous en mme temps au 31 dŽcembre, alors rien ne sert de courir.

euh.. et c'est moi qui dit a?.. :-)

cheer up pal.

Virex 7.2.1 released

i want virex 7.2

Virex eUpdate .. outdated

U R THA RULAR!!

C'mon everybody, CHEER!

and blaim apple for AGAIN not being able to give us the support we WANT AND NEED!!!

Le temps des exas

Hi Megan,

Thanks for your post and messages. I was out of town (out of reach), that's why I didn't reply immediately..

I was supervising an exam (from behind my TiPB) when i found your site through some other weblog. I found the design quite stunning.

The exact translation of the post sounds like,

"another interesting website: megalo-media.com maintained by M.E. Bluhm, medical and biological illustrations. The design of her weblog is stunning. I'm going back to explore it.."

Le temps des exas

Sorry - OBVIOUSLY you can comprehend English. :/

I'm feeling sheepish...

Le temps des exas

Never mind! I translated your post myself - thank you for the nice thoughts! :)

Or:

Jamais l'esprit! J'ai traduit votre poste me - merci pour les pens仔s agr斬bles! :)

Is that right? :)

Megan (again)

Le temps des exas

Hello! I don't speak/read French, so, I HOPE you can read English (American) - thank you for the link to my site! I'm a little embarrassed to ask, but, what does the post say about my site? You can just email me directly, if you'd like.

Thanks! :)) Megan

Virex eUpdate .. outdated

Thanks for the advice. I've been trying to get this to work since I bought my new G4 iMac a few months ago. The folks at Applecare don't even want to here about it...they tell you to call Virex. Tried to explain that I thought the only problem was that the URL for the eUdate server was wrong..."join a discussion group, I can't help you," is all I got in response. Applecare level 1 support ranks as one of the poorest experiences I can recall with customr service.

Virex 7.2.1 released

Very good protection.

Au vert

Pas beaucoup d'Žnergie pour travailler, je suis plutôt tournŽe vers samedi... Une fois de plus (mme si les fois sont assez rares...), j'ai grand plaisir ˆ te lire et ˆ dŽcouvrir tes dŽcouvertes. La remarque sur la balance jamais ŽquilibrŽe.... c'est tout ˆ fait la bonne manire d'exprimer le problme...

Bisous et bravo

(je ne coche pas "Souviens-toi de moi"... tu devrais y arriver !)

Anne

Apple's Hot News RSS feed

Hmmm actually i would be happy to know how I would add such an RSS feed into my webpage?

I mean, if addin gin a news stream, prolly big mama's stream, right?

*gg*

Virex eUpdate .. outdated

Thank you for this info. I am gr8ful.

Virex eUpdate .. outdated

Makes one wonder why Virex themselves are not offering the info. Maybe because it's free Ö

Virex eUpdate .. outdated

Richard,

Check your settings, and make sure you haven't forgotten the trailing slash on the directory path:

/virusdefs/mac/virex7/

Should do the trick.

Virex eUpdate .. outdated

I tried this but got a weird result. After providing an Administrator password, the eUpdate gives me the message:

"There is not enough hard disk space to download and install theis eUpdate. Make space on your hard disk and try again later by clicking the eUpdate icon."

I have 65 GB available. Either something's wrong or this is one heck of an update. Any suggestions?

Virex eUpdate .. outdated

Thank you for this information

Virex eUpdate .. outdated

Thank you for the information on how to

fix Virex eUpdate, it sure has beeb a pain

and apple would not even answer my e-mails.

Bombing for peace

svp je suis fan d'avril lavigne alors si y a une personne qui peux me donn� l'adresse de son domicil et son adresse e-mail ben se serai vraiment symat!!!!!!!!!!!!r姿ond� moi a squale.u.s.a@caramail.com si vous avez des renseignement!!!!!!!!!!!!!!merci

Accessible Biometric ID for Mac OS X

i used to own a pc and have recently switched to a mac, the same exact thing on www.digitalpersona.com for a pc only costs 99.00 why such the difference for something that has already been out for 2 years for pc?

Mac OS 10.2.6 is available

10.2.6 locked up my compurter and now it won't restart. don''t install it!!!!!!!!!

Virex 7.2.1 released

I need a Virex protection

Virex 7.2.1 released

The Virex is the best software protect Macintosh

DiskWarrior 3 for X

fdsf vdfsvsdf

Post your Safari GUI wishes

i need a fullscreen mode for presentations / installations. no menue, just the web, please keep on doing nice stuff.

Mac OS 10.2.6 is available

"well done Apple!" appears to be based on the premise that, because Apple has acknowledged a problem in 10.2.5 and rushed out the door an update which fixes this problem, Apple should be congratulated for the release of 10.2.6, which, in fact, is causing many more USB problems for many more users than it solves.

New releases

Hey guys,

I really would like to know what you think about

JIMZip... we worked hard on it and some feedbacks would be much apreciated...

Cheers,

The Dev Team.

VersionTracker's new UI

Seems like the VersionTracker development team has been surged with comments, if I understand this generic email that I received yesterday:

We appreciate you taking the time to email us. We apologize for the generic email, but with the number of emails we received we wanted to get back to you as soon as possible.

As you know we are in the process of upgrading our database and user review system.†Despite the database, site and browser compatibility testing we unfortunately ran into issues that could only have been uncovered after launching.†As of 24 hours from launch, the site is stable again.†

However, there are a lot of steps remaining to get all the features of VersionTracker working correctly including:

- Browser rendering bugs.†These are being addressed.†

- All past reviews, download counts and product ratings are saved.† The "old" reviews and ratings are in the process of being re-imported and will be back on the site shortly.

For the latest list of known issues and to provide additional feedback please go to:

http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/19346&mode=DeveloperNotes

Our goal is to improve VersionTracker in order to address concerns about the review system that many readers had--- without changing the VersionTracker you rely on just for the sake of "change".†

VersionTracker's new UI

Hmm, thanks for the 'no ads' tip. That option was actually off in my previous settings, and I didn't take the time to recheck it..

The layout problem is specific to Safari. Something to do with its CSS 2 rendering (check Dave's Hyatt weblog for more info (http://www.mozillazine.org/weblogs/hyatt/).

BTW, Camino renders the page perfectly ;)

Safari: http://www.macinblog.com/mac/img/vt-new_ui_safari.jpg

Camino: http://www.macinblog.com/mac/img/vt-new_ui_camino.jpg

Internet Explorer: http://www.macinblog.com/mac/img/vt-new_ui_ie.jpg

VersionTracker's new UI

Advertising can be switched off in: Membership area > Pro/Plus Tab Preferences, but this seems to generate a cosmetic bug where the Product info overlaps the table on the right.

I'm also experiencing a problem where all items are "Not yet rated"!!

At last, It would be nice if VersionTracker offered the possibility to view a screenshot like in MacUpdate (http://www.macupdate.com/screenshot.php?id=5661).

Bombing for peace

ahh!! je suis fan! merci pour la photo et aussi pour votre site! j'esp俊e que vous le continuiez! joseph

Accessible Biometric ID for Mac OS X

I have one of these and they are so cool. It is way easy to use and now I do not have to remember my password. TWO THUMBS UP!!!!!

Votre propre weblog

continuer

About the Finder

davo39

thanks.

took look. looks interesting.

when possible will look closer.

I was re-reading the Siracusa article. I had forgotten all the little osx annoyances I still experience but have taught myself to ignore. I always work in collumns mode because of the ease of cascading through the directories and lack of clutter. But then when opening up a directory higher up the chain i go and loose the one i'm currently looking at. Gets to me every time.

About the Finder

Julius,

Actually, there are several shareware applications that restore that behaviour. My favourite is FruitMenu from Unsanity

http://www.unsanity.com/haxies/fruitmenu/

[quote]

FruitMenu is a haxie that gives you the ability to customize the Apple Menu and contextual menus. Using a visual editor you can edit the contents of the menus to suit your needs and taste. FruitMenu will also display the contents of the FruitMenu Items folder inside of your Library folder, launch applications and shell scripts from the Apple Menu and contextual menus, to allow easy file navigation and launching. To make the haxie completely flexible and customizable, you can assign hotkeys to particular menu items. Last but not least, it is priced at only US$10 with lifetime free updates!

[/quote]

About the Finder

My gripe with osx (which i love) is that there seems no way of duplicating the old apple menu which allowed one to organise one's aliases in a meaningfull way and acess what one wanted with one simple mouse operation via the cascading menus.

Cross-platform publishing with Soybo

Bwana:

Have you posted your exact problems installing Soybo on the Soybo forums?

http://forums.soybo.com/

-adam

Cross-platform publishing with Soybo

i've been trying to get this to work for the past two nights and i cannot get any of the good services to work such as itunes, iphoto, and mail. i've tried everything on the forums but still no luck. im anxious to try to use this with my tungsten and my t68i :(

The MHz Myth is back

Researchers only report on what they can measure. They don't measure how long it takes someone to complete a job, they measure how long the computer takes to do the processing of a job. Annoying!!!

The MHz Myth is back

As embarrassing as it is to say this amongst die-hard mac fans, I'm one of those obnoxious Switchers. After spending a year on a Mac under OS 9.2 in college (doing Multimedia Design), I went out and bought a Mac running 10.2

The only thing I even turn the PC on for anymore is browser testing. I couldn't go back if you paid me. Yes, my 800MHz eMac *isn't* as "snappy" as my 1.5GHz PC.. but for me it's all about the user experience; it's built from the ground up with the end user in mind and it really shows. I love it.

Adobe promotes PC .. over Macs

Apple responds to Adobe :

http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/2003/03/25/appleresponds/

Varanasi, India 1996

you're welcome my friend!

Quelles belles images...

On attend le vernissage! ;-)