There are at least a few folks who are less than happy with Apple’s decision to remove the option to download and keep updates from the Software Update application in Snow Leopard. I count myself among them. Though the option may be gone from the GUI, however, it still exists in the command line version. [...]
Though Time Machine uses hard links to reference files from any point in time without using additional space, changing anything about a file will, obviously, trigger a new copy of said changed file to be backed up to your Time Machine disk. What’s perhaps less obvious is that even simply changing the path to the [...]
A quickie: It’s fairly common knowledge that, in the Finder, command-clicking the icon in the titlebar of the folder you’re in will reveal the folder hierarchy that said folder lives in. This is a handy way to find your current location and “drill up” in the folder hierarchy, if you will. I’ve always longed for [...]
I recently switched from an 8-core Mac Pro desktop system to a new 17″ MacBook Pro and I’m loving it. Video Toe-To-Toe Against the Mac Pro My first concern making this switch was, would the MacBook Pro offer enough power to get my toughest work done. The answer so far has been yes. Though I’ve [...]
It’s been widely reported that the Image Capture app in Snow Leopard can now see and scan from many common scanners. This is a huge boon to those of us who are sick and tired of crappy scanner drivers and software. Image Capture is quite a capable scanner app, and fairly Mac-like. But there’s another, [...]
That title should give you a hint just how much my responsibilities have changed since I took my new job. Yes, I still run a Mac OS X Server, but I no longer get bi-yearly hardware updates. So my server is running a PPC, as is my workstation. So no Snow Leopard Server for me, [...]
So I finally got my hands on a copy of Snow Leopard and have had a chance to kick the tires and take her ’round the block a few times. Here are my initial thoughts. The Good There are a bunch of really great improvements to Snow Leopard. You’ve probably heard all about most of [...]
It occurs to me that the themes of the last two posts will likely soon converge. When I buy my new MacBook Pro it will come with Snow Leopard, thus negating much need for pre-ordering the beast at all, which I’ve spent the last two weeks obsessively worrying over. And, speaking of, pre-ordering, while I’m [...]
I’ve been on the fence for some time about whether or not to pre-order Snow Leopard, and, if I were to do so, which package I should get. There are two options under my consideration. The first is the $29 Upgrade option. This option requires the user to already have a copy of Leopard. What [...]
I’d day this is probably a first in my career. It appears that after installing the Mac OS X 10.5.8 update my drive space requirements have gone down. Yup, that’s right, my System partition now occupies a bit less space than it did prior to the update. I’d first noticed this on my old PowerBook [...]