Entries from Ölbaum’s Delirium tagged with 'Mac OS X'
De-evilising Adium windows
Some developers seem to think that people can't use a mouse, probably because of their own inability to use one. Therefore they develop features to help us poor crippled users deal with our handicap. That's very nice of them, except it's annoying as Hell *and* insulting.
A note to Mac software developers
A compressed DMG does not need to be zipped, gzipped, binned, sitted or hqxed.
Avoid FileVault problems when using adobe updater
Great hint. The number of problems with adobe updater has just been reduced by one. 1,653,453,245 to go.
Two great Time Machine articles
Two great articles by Jeff Harrell where he explains in great details yet very simply how Time Machine works.
Yes!
About the Mac OS X 10.4.10 Update (delta)
Fractal Linking Cascade about Java
John Gruber linked to two articles by Paul Kim and Terrence Talbot about Java, following Steve Jobs' remark about it not being worth building into the iPhone. I foolishly went to read them, not realising that I was being caught into a Fractal Linking Cascade, ending in my reading of five rather long articles on the subject. I don't regret it, though, because they were really interesting.
MacFUSE Tech Demos
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3138515991250095768
Marble, Wood or… Porcelain!
http://video.on.nytimes.com/?fr_story=d14603c1e23e6ce37920a8134a2e27b1405a4991&rf=bm
Queuing up package installations
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=25807
USB Floppy Disk Striped RAID under OS X
http://ohlssonvox.8k.com/fdd_raid.htm
Building a TINI application with Xcode
This post explains how I build applications for the TINI using Xcode. It was written for Xcode 2.4. Create a new Java Tool project in Xcode. The description says “This project builds a library or application as a JAR file.”...
Yojimbo
Bare Bones Software apparently has a new product in store: According to IMDb, Yojimbo in a film from 1961 by Akira Kurosawa in which “A crafty ronin comes to a town divided by two criminal gangs and decides to play...
iWeb without .Mac
For those who are worried that Apple’s new iWeb would only work with a .Mac account, one can read in a footnote on the iWeb web page that: iWeb publishing requires Internet and webserver access (.Mac recommended). I take that...
Mac OS X 10.4.3
My top five anticipated features in Mac OS X 10.4.3: iChat preferences now allow you to display emoticons (such as a smiley face) as text (such as “:-)”) instead of as a graphic. Great for cross-coding monkeys communication. .Mac members...
Cocoa Bindings Examples and Hints
http://homepage.mac.com/mmalc/CocoaExamples/controllers.html
BluePhoneElite
http://www.reelintelligence.com/BluePhoneElite/
GNU Hello
Technical Note TN2137: Building Universal Binaries from "configure"-based Open Source Projects An interesting read. My favourite part: While the GNU Hello program is one of the most complicated "Hello, World" programs ever written, it is still a relatively simple program…...
Time travel
Something funny happened when decompressing the Myst V: End of Ages demo:...
La Crosse WS-3600 serial protocol
Sander and Grzegorz managed to understand how the La Crosse WS-36001 weather station communicates over its serial port. They launched the Open3600 project and have a program for Linux and Windows (with source code) that dumps the contents of the...
Mac news
Question to my reader(s): what Mac news site do you read? I'm looking for a good news sites about the Mac but I have difficulty finding one. I ditched MacNN because they constantly mix up the words announce and release...
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