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September 14, 2011
I first met Blake when he was literally just a kid, maybe 7 or 8 years old. His dad taught at my high school and was one of the reasons that I really started to enjoy the creative and technological intricacies of media production and photography. Blake’s dad ran the media centre, the school’s television … More
October 22, 2008
No, you’re not seeing things … that’s a small sliver of 4D’s WebStar 4.4 running under OS 9 (9.1 to be exact, not Classic). This post could be simple documentation of my attempt to unify the administration of the servers residing in my basement. That would be absolutely true. But in all honesty, I’m just … More
December 29, 2006
MacNN reports that Big Blue has finally released an OS X-savvy version of its venerable Lotus Notes collaboration suite. The press release states: “ … with IBM Lotus Notes 7.0.2 for OS X, Mac users have the collaboration power they’ve been waiting for … ” Mac users? As in multiple? Shouldn’t that read “ … … More
October 28, 2005
Sweet mother of crap. After several years in software stasis (and quite frankly stating that he wasn’t even working on Macs anymore…) the indubitably talented Turly has resurfaced with an OS X savvy version of FinderPop. This contextual menu extension still makes my life more pleasant during those regressions back to OS 9 and Classic … More
October 13, 2005
A happy belated number five to the kids over at Unsanity. Their dedicated w00tness has helped me keep my own sanity in check during the bumps and grinds transitioning to OS X. Keep them haxies rolling.
August 18, 2005
I finally installed Tiger this week. A little slow on the adoption curve? Perhaps. Overly cautious? Not in your life. The timeline to upgrading my OS is usually impacted more by available time between projects than it is about swimming in unknown waters. Transitioning from Panther to Tiger was extremely smooth. Frighteningly smooth, in fact. … More
December 1, 2003
Mad props to Phil Dokas who managed to absolve me of one more niggling OS X quirk that had been stuck in my craw. He pointed to this handy tip on how to reinstate Command-N as the default keyboard shortcut for creating a new folder. The beautiful thing about this tip is that it doesn’t … More
June 5, 2003
Just like me, you were right ripped that Apple’s ‘improvements’ to iTunes disabled internet music sharing. Part of the wonderfulness of music sharing was being able to listen to your home-based library at work, and now that flexibility was gone. Well, it really didn’t take very long for James Speth (of iCommune fame) to slap … More
May 20, 2003
Thanks to this slightly dated thread over at Mac OS X Hints and a brief refresher on standard Unix date and time formatting, I now have the day and date alongside the time in my menubar clock. Gosh, I’m feeling positively Now Utilities all over again. Why simple things like this have been left out … More
May 20, 2003
Since I first mentioned how I was tinkering with various OS X Finder settings to customize the views, I’ve had a few requests from viewers wanting to know what my windows looked like using 9 point aliased fonts. I’m reasonably happy with how the text labels look on the desktop, but the list and column … More