My Leopard Finder Bug
This bug was first found in Leopard 10.5.1 (9B18) REPRODUCTION: 1) grab file 2) open a folder by hovering the file over a folder in the "places" sidebar 3) open a sub-folder of the first folder by hover again 4) drop file into folder 5) click the back arrow to return to the original folder RESULT: 1) The moved file will appear to still be in the original folder, as well as the new location. Read more [...]
Living with Leopard's Firewall
Here's a few helpful tips: to add a port: sudo ipfw add allow from to So, if you want allow port 80 with tcp you'd type sudo ipfw add allow tcp from 80 to 80 to see your rules: sudo ipfw list to delete an open port: first type sudo ipfw list, you'll get something like this 33300 deny icmp from any to me in icmptypes 8 33400 allow udp from 0.0.0.80 to 0.0.0.80 33500 allow tcp from 0.0.0.80 to 0.0.0.80 take the number proceeding the rule you want to delete and type sudo ipfw deletem , so if I wanted to delete the rule "33500 allow tcp from 0.0.0.80 to 0.0.0.80" I'd just type sudo ipfw delete 33400 Hopefully Apple will realize that giving users no advanced options is dumb. Read more [...]
Calibrate Your Mac Battery
Plug in the power adapter and fully charge your PowerBook's battery until the light ring or LED on the power adapter plug changes to green and the onscreen meter in the menu bar indicates that the battery is fully charged. Read more [...]
iPhone Update Locks Down 3rd Party Apps, Time for a Linux Phone?
With Apple's recent move to lock down the iPhone and iPod Touch the Linux Phone called OpenMoko is starting to look better all the time. The combination of openness not only of software but also of network (any GSM network anyway) makes the OpenMoko a compelling alternative to what Apple offers, that being a closed software and closed network phone. Read more [...]
Apple's World-Wide Pricing
From what I can tell using Google Finance: $2,688.14 USD - Current price for Japan (based on the exchange rate at the end of the day 2007.Sep.11) $2,456 USD - Year's low price for Japan (approx.) $2,695 USD - Year's high price for Japan (approx.) I'd really like to see a whole history and analysis of their world wide pricing. Read more [...]
Beta iPhone Rejected
The first iPhone design was a little primitive. It took a little over twenty years, but late in 2006 Apple was ready to show off their new and improved design. Read more [...]
Aqua OpenOffice is Shaping up
The Mac OpenOffice team released the second snapshot of the Aqua (X11 free) version of OpenOffice today. At this point it is still too early to review the new OpenOffice, but it looks like it is on its way to becoming the same great free office suite on Mac that it is on every other platform. Read more [...]
How Tiger 10.4.10 Killed My Wireless and How I Fixed it
As a seasoned Mac user I know to be careful when updating my Mac. So I downloaded Apple's airport update from a while back and saw which files it was updating. Read more [...]
Aqua OpenOffice Around the Corner
May 2007 Present a downloadable public Aqua version, working as alpha (not complete, with missing features to be implemented later) Start QA using user's feedback Yeah, April is only like half over and the alpha could be out in late May, but it is closer. Read more [...]
