I’ve had an ongoing beef with Leopard since it’s inception. The problem is difficult to describe, but I’ve had a lot more experience with it since the last time I wrote about it, and I think I now have a better idea of what’s going on. So I wanted to revisit the issue as we’re [...]
Hey, here’s a weird one: I finally got my home account back to working order after my experiment with PHDs only to find that iCal couldn’t open any of my online calendars. It kept saying the password was missing from Keychain, then refusing to let me add one, saying that the “Keychain could not be [...]
I had the oddest thing happen to me recently. I was changing my Desktop picture, and I navigated to one of the fuller image folders in the Desktop pane of the System Preferences, and as the images loaded I saw a progress bar at the bottom of the window. I’d never seen this before. I [...]
Last week I began testing the Apple Portable Home Directories feature. I’d heard a lot of good buzz, but my experience was pretty terrible. Of course I was doing things my own way, and not the Apple way, which is always a bit dicey. Almost Proper Wanting to get PHDs working, I decided to try [...]
I don’t generally post rumors or speculation on upcoming software, but latest Snow Leopard action has me feeling all tingly with anticipation. For a release that was supposed to be mainly about size and performance enhancements and less about new features, Snow Leopard looks to have a bunch of new features that appeal quite a [...]
Now that I’ve tried it myself, I’ve very much enjoyed the advantages that having a network home account has offered. I’ve also rather disliked some of the disadvantages. Ultimately, the biggest drawback has been that when our production crew is doing a lot of rendering, my home account slows to a crawl and I can’t [...]
I can’t believe I never wrote this up, but I’ve been using the Software Update Server included with Mac OS X Leopard Server since I upgraded the servers at my old job. If your network — or Apple’s servers — are ever slow to get updates, having your own centralized SU Server can make a world [...]
Hello, and happy Mother’s Day! My mom recently switched over to the Mac platform, and she wanted to take a photo for me. I told her she could use the built-in iSight camera and PhotoBooth on her MacBook Pro to take the shot, but she couldn’t figure out how to do it. No problem, Mom. [...]
I don’t know if this is general knowledge or not, and I’m not a big Exposé user, so I could easily be ignorant of such a thing, but I just discovered that you can cycle through Exposé-activated applications using the tab or tilde keys. Here’s what you do: Hit the Exposé key (which is F3 [...]
I don’t know about anyone else, but after installing the new Beta of Safari 4 my Finder kept dying. Poor beast would lock up. I’d force quit her and she’d never come back to life. The only way I could get her back was to either A) hard reboot with the metal button on the [...]