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Gentle upgrade to Snow Leopard (Mac OS 10.6)
It's a slow starter today, so while Snow Leopard gently installs on Jigme, my Mac Pro workstation, I thought I'd share my 2¢ worth of Snow Leopard (Mac OS 10.6) experience. The upgrade was as smooth as can be...
Prowl, a Growl Client for iPhone
I discovered Prowl over breakfast this morning and couldn't resist trying it out. Prowl is a Growl client for iPhone. Notifications from your Mac can be sent to your iPhone over push, with a full range of customization. With...
iPhone v3.0 OS MMS and tethering
A quick post to share with you how I managed to activate tethering (Swisscom) on my iPhone 3G running iPhone OS 3.0 (build 7a341). The 3.0 update was seemless. I downloaded my developer's copy and updated the iPhone via...
Get your MacBook to sleep smart
I almost never shutdown my MacBook Pro, I always send it to sleep. Faster wake up time, this behaviour makes sense on a laptop. Only, it can take ages for the MacBook to actually go to sleep. Check how long it takes between the moment you close the lip, and the power led start pulsing. Ages.
4 Feb 2009
aperture • mac • photography • tip
Mobile Aperture
As much as I like Aperture, one of its annoying wekanesses is the lack of support of multiple librairies, or network based librairies. Yes, you can have multiple librairies per se, but you can only open one at a...
The MacBook Wheel
Only minutes before Apple's last MWSF Keynote. These guys are sooooo good. Apple Introduces Revolutionary New Laptop With No Keyboard By the Onion News Network (Thanks Andy!)....
3 Jan 2009
mac • software • subversion • svn
Versions
I've used a fair number of Subversion clients for the Mac but have always reverted back to the command line or to TextMate's build-in svn support. Although most of them did the job, none of them were polished enough to give the user experience I expect from a Mac application until I discovered Versions last August.
Hasta la vista, baby
… and the moral of the story: it takes 4 Macs to overtake a PC running Windows (sic!) Where's the Linux bot? Somewhat inspired from the Transformers, I, Robot and Terminator. Orig: YouTube...
VisualHub discontinued
I first heard about Techspansion closing through lynxman's Twitter feed before reading the notice that is displayed when you launch the application. ...After much soul-searching (it's not you, it's me), for personal reasons, Techspansion is closing its virtual doors....
Geneva Apple Store is open
The Geneva Apple Store opened yesterday at 17:00 CET. It is Apple's 242nd store worldwide. I wasn't sure to attend, but curiosity got the best of me. Not curiosity of the store itself as I was very much sure...
20 Feb 2008
frustration • geneva • mac • weather
10.5.2 freezes
When an update makes you feel sick. This is what the latest Mac OS 10.5.2 update makes me want to do. It is a sad world when you start to loose trust in what use to be a flawless...
.Mac calendar synchronisation problem in Leopard
I've been having synchronisation issues with .Mac services recently related to my iCal calendars. Usually, resetting the .Mac copy with a local copy from one of my computers solved the problem. But not this time. The SyncServer was generating...
15 Oct 2007
backup • duplication • mac • notification • raid
Backup revisited
I've recently fine tuned my overall backup strategy and finally found a balance between efficiency, security and ease of use that suits me. As you may or may not know, I'm a paranoid sucker when it comes down to...
Airport Disk hangs logout if not unmounted
I've setup my brand new Airport Extreme base station with success about ten days ago, and was excited to test out the new Airport Disk feature. I intended to transfer my iTunes library onto an external disk, and share...
MacBook Pro Core 2 Duo WEP problems fixed?
Apple released an Airport Update 2007-002 that fixes connection problems that were nagging MacBook and MacBook Pro users ever since the release of the MacBook Pro C2D. Contrary to the previous one released earlier this year. This update also...
On hardware failures
There are days when the hardware lets you down. I've noticed a significant increase in the frequency of hardware failures these last years, part of them related to quality control (see below). More personally, I've been experiencing a hardware...
Multiple iTunes librairies
I've been playing around with iTunes 7 multiple librairies function, and I must admit it works as advertised. I've been looking for a solution that enables me to share a library among multiple Macs, along with its copy protected...
7 Feb 2007
apple • conference • design • mac • social
WWDC07
Whoosh, I received a Time Machine Leopard teaser styled invitation in my mail today. Now, what does that tell us on 10.5 UI? Apple's Worldwide Developer's Conference will be help on June 11-15th, 2007 in San Francisco....
Apple UK ads
The Get a Mac adverts are available on Apple's UK website with new actors. I find them funnier than the original ones. It must be that English dry humour touch.....
Interarchy, old friend
I received Peter N. Lewis' last "Total Interarchy" issue today. He announces that Interarchy's lead developer Matthew Drayton has formed a new company, Nolobe Pty Ltd, and acquired Interarchy and that he is retiring from its development. As of...
28 Jan 2007
dalai lama • mac • photography
Enlightened
His Holiness the Dalai Lama using a Mac. A happy picture picked this up on Digg....
Yet another WiFi network (yawn)
Another WiFi network appeared in iStumbler this morning, which brings the total to ten. There were two (mine included) back in 2001 when I moved in, and four last summer. I'm actually hooking into private networks from across the...
My backup paranoia
There's been a fair bit of talk on backup strategies, hardware and software around me lately, so I thought I'd add my two cents worth. I guess I'm a sort of paranoid backup freak. So don't take too literally...
19 Jan 2007
mac • mail • notification • tip
Getting GrowlMail to work
Leopard 10.5 update: Mac OS X 10.5's Mail.app requires bundle version 3 or greater. See comment below. I've been fiddling around to get GrowlMail to work with the latest version of Growl. Installing the GrowlMail bundle went fine, but...
17 Jan 2007
mac • photography • software • training
Learning Aperture 1.5
DHL delivered my copy of Aperture 1.5 Beyond the Basics edited by Lynda.com early this morning. Can't wait to listen to Scott Bourne explain how to organise my photo workflow with Aperture. I love to listen to him, Leo,...
What about the Mac?
Now the reality distortion field has faded a little since Steve Jobs' keynote, a few observations materialised in my early morning dreaming. The iPhone announcement and presentation was a bomb. An investor's bomb, not necessarily a Mac loyal bomb....
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