Unconfirmed reports state that Apple Engineer (QuickTime, iTunes and others) “suddenly” passed away. More information is not available at this time. According to Tom’s page he wrote the popular Darkside of the Mac screensaver. Tom worked for Apple for 17 years as of the last update of his page, more like 21 now.
Rock Band is A-Fantanstic
What a great game. Pricey at $170, you get a wireless guitar1, a set of 4 drums with foot pedal and a mic. So you get to play solo as a drummer, singer, guitarist or bassist. Add some friends and you can form a band, go on tour, earn fans and get new stuffages. I… Continue reading Rock Band is A-Fantanstic
MS Posts Office 2008 security notice, then pulls it
Update:Microsoft has reposted the instructions In my RSS was a Mac Mojo post from Eric Schwiebert about the 502 error in the Office 2008 Installer. I went to read the rest of the post but it has been removed, and seemingly not replaced yet. Here is what my RSS reader cached: You may have seen… Continue reading MS Posts Office 2008 security notice, then pulls it
Controlling Apple TV with a Harmony 890 RF Remote
Hopefully this saves someone else an hour. If I stuck one of the IR buds directly to the IR “eye” on the Apple TV, the Apple TV would not recognize any IR. I had to stick it below the IR “eye” in order for IR codes to be received.
10 months later – Apple Airport N Router still broken
I’ve been in touch with AppleCare ever since I got this router. They have continued to “look into” our VPN issues with SonicWall. They even swapped my router for a new one (before the gigabits came out) The last email I from Apple was today: It appears we still do not have a solution or… Continue reading 10 months later – Apple Airport N Router still broken
Office 2008 sets user ID to 502
Sigh, Microsoft. I can confirm the report at bruned that the Microsoft Office 2008 installer sets the owner to user 502, which is the second user on your machine. In this case, my test user. Nice. What a security hole. This installer also mucks with other user ids, so be careful. I ran repair permissions… Continue reading Office 2008 sets user ID to 502
Hey Apple, how about some dialog love
Really, this is useful. Thanks, now I get to sort out which of the 50 items I am administer for I don’t have permissions on. It really is too bad the computer doesn’t know which items I don’t have permissions to replace, because if the computer knew, it could give me a list, that I… Continue reading Hey Apple, how about some dialog love
Bought MacHeist Bundle
Alright, I know the bru-ha-ha over MacHeist, but seeing one of the chaching guys push the bundle made me at least feel that due to the success of MH1, the developers are getting a better deal this time around. Why did I buy it? Because I loathe Intuit. I am tired of their Mac apps… Continue reading Bought MacHeist Bundle
I completely disagree with John Gruber on Time Capsule and here’s why
In response to John’s Keynote Roundup about Apple’s new Time Capsule, I wrote to him: Hi John, I saw your glowing review of Time Capsule and wanted to point out a few things. 1) Backups should be reliable. Sure, a “server grade” hard disk that supports the proper buffer flush commands is great, but you… Continue reading I completely disagree with John Gruber on Time Capsule and here’s why
Office 2008 Font Issues
It seems that the Office 2008 installer leaves several copies of their fonts in /Library/Fonts/ The older versions are named such as “Courier New” while the newer versions are named “Courier New.ttf” Sadly, Font Book as disabled the new fonts and offers to delete them over the old fonts. Yuck. I am not sure what… Continue reading Office 2008 Font Issues
Having problems with Leopard 10.5.1 and mySQL?
“Can’t start server : Bind on unix socket: Permission denied” “Can’t connect to local MySQL server through socket ‘/tmp/mysql.sock’” Wow I found a lot of stuff on the net about this, but only two things helped because I was not using PHP: Check permissions on /tmp Mine were user:user with user read only! Changed to… Continue reading Having problems with Leopard 10.5.1 and mySQL?
iTunes HD movies are Apple TV only
As pointed out in the EULA by John Gruber, HD rentals can only be done on the Apple TV and are not transferable to a computer, iPod, etc. ok fine, maybe they did this for licensing reasons, or maybe because an iPhone doesn’t want nor can play an HD version. There is a solution. Make… Continue reading iTunes HD movies are Apple TV only
MacWorld 2008 – Time Capsule
Ok this product is a joke. Apple has a bad enough record with routers as it is (My 10 month old router still does not allow Elizabeth’s VPN to connect, wheres linksys and d-link do) but check this scenario out: Back up to Time Capsule, oh laptop kernel panics. Reboot. Wait 9 hours while it… Continue reading MacWorld 2008 – Time Capsule
Roomba 550 – How does it work?
Pretty well, I’d say. Honestly, the best thing about running a roomba every T-Th-Sun is that it forces us to keep the floor clean, which not only allows the roomba to run, but makes it easier to vac with the Electrolux. So, after a week of cleaning, the roomba was picking up very little top… Continue reading Roomba 550 – How does it work?
NetNewsWire is *FREE*!!!!
Yahoo! If you read RSS on the Macintosh then you likely know that Brent Simmon’s NetNewsWire has been the best app around. Vienna is very nice and gave NNW competition, especially in the price category. Well now, Newsgator has announced that NNW is free! Yes, free! You have no excuses now: Download NetNewsWire For Free!… Continue reading NetNewsWire is *FREE*!!!!
Roomba 550 Review
I have added a review of my new Roomba 550 to the Roomba Review Wiki at: Roomba 550 Review
Are you using Twitter?
I am late to the game checking it out. Email me your ids, mine is geeksrus. Original, eh? Any good clients to use other than the website?
Spotlight is extension sensitive
I created a file titled Foobar 3.0 in TextMate with the words “hello world” in it. I did a spotlight search for Hello World but my file did not show in the list. I clicked Show All and it was not in the full list either. With the full list open, I renamed my file… Continue reading Spotlight is extension sensitive
How good is Leopard’s Time Machine?
I leave a hard disk on the floor next to the couch backing up with time machine. Today I was installing a new copy of vBulletin, but they use an awful disk structure of code+resources in one folder, so when I replaced my forums folder with theirs, I inadvertently wiped out the images that my… Continue reading How good is Leopard’s Time Machine?
Apple Airport software – what a joke
Ok so we need a WEP hex key for my mom’s airport. I fire up my Intel laptop, no dice, Airport UTILITY won’t open an older Extreme, only Airport ADMIN UTILITY. Can I download this app? No, An hour searching on apple.com, nothing. I find 4.0.2 for 10.3.3, but that won’t install. I try 4.0.2… Continue reading Apple Airport software – what a joke