Entries from Shadowbot tagged with 'mac'
Why I love Panic and Unison - April 2, 2008 11:27 AM
I received a welcome e-mail yesterday, regarding Panic's Unison usenet access, the subscription service I use to replace InsightBB's shallow and unreliable access. Dear Unison Access User, We bring you some good news: Unison Access has changed dramatically! How? Improved...
- ⇒ Intuit To Rewrite Quicken, Demos TurboTax 2008 (link from Jan 19, 2008)
Oh, thank God. After trying a number of other financial apps for the Mac, I keep coming back to Quicken, because no matter how poorly it works, or how much it fails to integrate with the rest of the OS (e.g., ⌘+A opens the accounts window instead of selecting all; ⌘+D deletes entries), it's still the only financial package that does everything I want it to. The closest I ever came to switching was using Cha-Ching, which I even paid for because I thought it was the one, but I couldn't deal with the combined register view. I'll be extremely pleased when a new Mac Quicken hits stores. I'll be the first in line to purchase it.
Using Things - January 14, 2008 1:50 PM
I've been using Things for the last two weeks or so as my GTD application of choice. I was previously using Backpack for the same thing, but having been caught without a working internet connection a few times had me...
- ⇒ Dashalytics (link from Jul 24, 2007)
A Mac dashboard app for getting at-a-glance info from Google Analytics.
Oh, my poor brethren! - June 27, 2007 10:19 PM
I just realized something horrible for my fellow geeks of similar alignment. There is a cosmic conflagration in the works, my friends! Do you realize it? How will you handle the choice laid out before you? Will you go to...
A question about uninstalls on a Mac - June 22, 2007 7:55 AM
I've been cleaning up my MacBook Pro recently, and I've had to re-download the DMGs for a number of programs that used the installer, because the uninstaller is included in the DMG, but doesn't actually get copied to my system...
- ⇒ Opera Mini 4 Beta (link from Jun 19, 2007)
The newest version of Opera Mini (the best browser for your non-Apple phone) has been released in Beta, and holy moly, its new feature set is amazing. You know those iPhone commercials that talk about the 'just internet'? This new Opera kinda does that, for $0.
- ⇒ Just completed my first SuperDuper! backup (link from Jun 18, 2007)
After 36 hours and three failed attempts, I finally finished my first SuperDuper! backup. The first attempt, at work, threw an error after a few hours while I was trying to backup to our main network data drive. The second was at home, trying to backup over the network to the USB drive linked to my Windows PC, which threw an error at about 3.9 GB. For the third attempt, I brought the USB drive downstairs and hooked it directly to my machine. It stalled, throwing no error, at about 4GB. I assumed at this point that the troll stopping my backup was the ~ 4 GB file size limit on FAT32 drives, so I moved everything off the USB drive, repartitioned and reformatted it into HFS+, and it finally worked like a charm.
Was I doing anything obviously wrong, other than trying to break the rules of the FAT32 file system (and is that really where the problem was)? If you know anything about it, leave me a comment. Thanks!
- ⇒ Safari for Windows, 0day exploit in 2 hours (link from Jun 13, 2007)
Ouch.
I downloaded and installed Safari for Windows 2 hours ago, when I started writing this, and I now have a fully functional command execution vulnerability, triggered without user interaction simply by visiting a web site.
I have a very hard time understanding how Apple didn't anticipate something like this. One would think that the kind of people who would be excited to download and install Safari on their PCs are the same kind of people who will be instantly turned off by talk of security exploits and other problems with the browser.
- ⇒ Safari 3 Public Beta (link from Jun 12, 2007)
Safari, the native Mac OS web browser, is now available for Windows users. Safari is a nice enough browser, but I'm too hooked on my Firefox extensions to really switch.
- ⇒ Daring Fireball on WWDC '07 Keynote announcements (link from Jun 12, 2007)
WWDC 2007 feels more like ““WWDC 2006 2.0” - the same news, now less vague.
John also has an interesting (and to my mind, probably 100% accurate) take on Safari for Windows.
- ⇒ Binary Bonsai on WWDC '07 announcements (link from Jun 12, 2007)
I have to agree with his assessment of Spaces, because I work the same way.
- ⇒ iSquint - iPod video converter for Mac (link from Jun 8, 2007)
I spent about half an hour looking for a free Mac app I could use to get my avi files of Heroes onto Lori's iPod. This tiny app did a wonderful job.
- ⇒ Fix your broken Parallels Desktop (link from May 29, 2007)
I love Parallels Desktop, but it had become completely unusable as of late. I didn't know why, whether it was a bug of some kind or some "feature" that didn't like my Macbook Pro. I even wiped my VM and installed a new one, and while it worked fine for the first few boots, after that, it slowed down to the point of stalling my entire system, taking roughly twenty minutes to boot Windows.
It turns out this is the result of a problem with Windows Update. For whatever reason, it seems to be hitting users of Parallels Desktop particularly hard. The link above is to the fix, which worked for me.
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