Smart Scroll brings iPhone coasting to Mac OS X
Tuesday, November 4th, 2008Macintouch reports tat Smart Scroll lets you reverse scroll direction and get iPhone-like scroll coasting (inertia) on Mac OS X.
Archive for the ‘Mac’ Category
Macs that will work with 64 bit Windows Vista under Boot Camp
Sunday, November 2nd, 2008Apple has a tech note about which Macs will work with 64-bit editions of Microsoft Windows Vista under Boot camp. Hint, you have to have a 2008 or later Pro model.
Airport commandline utility
Thursday, October 16th, 2008If you need to connect to an airport wireless network from the commandline you could check out the little known airport command line utility.
It’s hidden at
/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Apple80211.framework/Versions/Current/Resources/airport
You can use –help for help and -I for signal strength and ID info
Painting of Steve Jobs for sale
Friday, September 26th, 2008JoyOfTecher Nitrozac has a painting of Steve Jobs introducing the MacBook Air up for sale
Peekaboo - More airport code brokenness
Tuesday, September 16th, 2008
Newsyslog rolls logs under Leopard
Wednesday, August 27th, 2008Trying to work out how to roll logs on my Leopard server (that’s actually client configured as a server :), I discovered that Leopard is using Newsyslog, on which NerdGirl.dk gives the lowdown.
Aussies switching to Macs faster than the rest of the world
Tuesday, August 19th, 2008A Gartner survey shows that Mac sales in Australia grew 52% in the last quarter
Remember, it’s already tomorrow in Australia!
Etch-a-sketch laptop cozy
Sunday, August 17th, 2008If you’ve got the sewing skills (or you know someone who does), you could try making this very cool Etch-a-sketch themed laptop cozy.
via Redbraids.
Time Crapsule
Sunday, August 17th, 2008I’m not sure that Time Machine’s going to prove much use to me if it spends longer than a weekend “Preparing backup”. Maybe if I left the machine backing up all week and only used it on weekends? Contemplating nuking the backup and starting from scratch as that way at least it’ll not have to do any comparison with the existing backup.
Meanwhile Spotlight is claiming that it’s 3% done indexing the backup volume and has 49 hours remaining. Sigh. I just added the backup volume to the list of things not to index (Why doesn’t that happen automatically?), and I got an error dialog. But re-opening the Spotlight preference pane shows the volume was added anyway. Now it’s still indexing it, but claims it’s 1% done and only got 3 hours remaining.
I’m thinking it’s time to fire up Superduper.
MacBook Air SSD drive comparison
Wednesday, July 16th, 2008The folks over at StorageMojo have a battery life comparison of MacBook Airs with hard drives and SSD drives. Also a comparison of MacBook Pros with and without SSD drives.
Anybody with a MacBook Air with SSD care to comment if they’ve got a /.hotfiles.btree file on their machine? This would possibly indicate that Mac OS X is still shuffling around their file system to optimise file access as if it was on a hard drive.
