If you want to record sound that’s coming out your Mac’s speakers (audio channel), but are too cheap to shell out for a copy of Ambrosia’s Audio Hijack Pro or WireTap Studio, you can try installing the free SoundFlower, setting it as the audio destination in your Sound System Preferences pane, then recording from it using the free Audacity.
Archive for the ‘Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard’ Category
Free sound ripping on your Mac
Wednesday, July 29th, 2009Can’t fax from Mac OS X 10.5?
Friday, July 10th, 2009If you’re having problems sending outgoing faxes from Mac OS X 10.5, maybe you need to (stop using faxes!) check out this knowledgebase article (which also seems to imply your machine may hang during reboot, yay Apple!).
Disk Image preference pane
Wednesday, May 27th, 2009If you look in
/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/DiskImages.framework/Versions/A/Resources/
you will find a DiskImages.prefPane, which when you double click it will load it as a preference pane offering pre- and post-processing and encryption options for disk images.
Disk Image Preference Pane
Of course, as it’s in a Private Framework, you get what you deserve if you use it.
Mac OS X Server AFP high CPU load problem
Sunday, March 8th, 2009This discussion thread over on Apple’s forums documents a large number of system administrators who have their AFP (Apple File Protocol) creating a high CPU load and thus making the server unusable for their users.
Suggested workarounds which have anecdotally provided varied success (including none 
) include:
- Turning off Spotlight on client machines
- Turning off Spotlight indexing on the shared volumes
- Executing
defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.AppleShareClient -dict-add afp_wan_threshold -int 1000
defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.AppleShareClient -dict-add afp_wan_quantum -int 131702on all 10.5.x client Macs.
- Installing Security Update 2009-001 which states
Description: A race condition in AFP Server may lead to an infinite loop. Enumerating files on an AFP server may lead to a denial of service. This update addresses the issue through improved file enumeration logic. This issue only affects systems running Mac OS X v10.5.6.
The problem was originally posted with respect to Mac OS X 10.5.4 on 29th of August 2008, and still seems unresolved for many people. And people wonder why it’s hard to argue that Mac OS X Server belongs in the data centre.
iPhoto ‘09
Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009It looks like iPhoto ’09’s face recognition is based on code from Omron.
Meanwhile, Fraser Speirs compares iPhoto ’09’s flickr export with his own FlickrExport plugin, and finds iPhoto to be lacking in several areas (at least until iPhoto ‘10, at least).
Debugging Apache2
Thursday, January 15th, 2009If you need to kick off Apache2 in debug mode (so you could for example try to work out why mod_perl is not doing its thing to let you run awstats), you may find this blog entry by Mark Liyanage quite useful.
Free Mac First Person Shooters
Wednesday, January 14th, 2009Using HFS+ disk quotas
Thursday, January 8th, 2009Check out this page at securecomputing.net if you need to enable disk quotas on HFS+ volumes.
Apple censoring iPhone Apps that don’t use private APIs
Monday, December 22nd, 2008So Landon Fuller wrote his own CoverFlow implementation for his iPhone App “Peeps”, and did such a good job of it that Apple refused to allow it on the iPhone store because they claimed it was accessing the Apple’s private CoverFlow APIs. I would have thought they had methods to check the executable code, rather than just looking at the app?
