Tag: Macintosh

I see file I want on dock, drag to Finder window. Poof sound and animation heard. Crap, I just deleted my Downloads stack off the dock See downloads in said Finder window. Drag to dock. Poof sound and animation heard. Crap, I just deleted my Downloads sidebar item, also. /sigh

It’s on your software update. And here I thought it was my lame typing or iSkin that was causing the first character I typed to be lost!

Let me tell you a somewhat long tale about the week I’ve had. This will get a little geeky, but you’d find out exactly why you should be using Time Machine and maybe a few tips to help your disaster recovery process. Time Machine is Mac OS X 10.5’s automatic backup system. You attach a… Continue reading Why you should use Time Machine

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

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

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

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

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

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

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*!!!!

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

And it is free for all registered users! Check it out What’s new in TextExpander 2.0: – Snippet groups – Add snippet groups from external files – Add snippet groups from URLs (including password-protected URLs with Keychain support) – Synchronize snippet groups using .Mac Synchronization – Print snippets – Hotkeys to enable / disable and… Continue reading TextExpander 2.0 ships

Just gave this update to the ole’ stalwart a shot. It told me that my 140gb disk image was not big enough for a clone of a 140gb partition – but I told it I wanted to just update The barber pole never changed to a progress bar I had no idea if it was… Continue reading I’d stay away from Carbon Copy Cloner 3

But it has a number of nice features for $40, including chained filters, layers, magic wand, opacity and a very clean interface. Unlike pixelator which still hasn’t shipped, you can find Acorn at the flying meat website

haha a hilarious cartoon done in the Get a Mac & South Park styles Watch

I use Quicken 2006 and have used quicken for decades (it seems), paying my yearly Intuit tax, but the feature I use the most, downloading credit card statements, has always been flawed, it always gets out of sync and I’ve had it. I am not paying the 2007 tax to find out if they fixed… Continue reading I give up on Quicken