Ars Technica\’s John Siracusa is having flashbacks…  He is reviewing and commenting on his 10 years of Apple Mac OS X reviews… The latter half of the 1990s was a dark time for the company then known as Apple Computer, Inc. Windows 95 had dashed any remaining hopes of mass-market desktop dominance for Apple. The big […]
Well, I\’m communicating with the author of the Twitoaster package, to see if we can isolate what is causing the failure of the package… Â (It\’s probably something related to my wordpress configuration…) Twitoaster, automatically posts the wordpress posts to Twitter, but it also allows the Retweets, and Tweetbacks, to show up in the posts on […]
As a general guideline, these temperatures are really the maximum I would consider safe for a laptop… 0-104F (40C) = Cold. 122F – 158F [50-70C] = Typical-ish use, still safe. 159F – 185F [70-85C] = Heavy use, consider moving to flat surface, elevating, or cooling it. 185F+ [85]+ = Hot! Go take a break. If […]
I have just downloaded this, but someone has created a Bento v3 template for the new Doctor Who RPG game…  See Doctor Who RPG Template | Database Templates For Bento | Bento Template Exchange, for the download link.
Here\’s the story, the Kick-Ass trailers are getting better and better…. The Latest one, is inlined below… I want to believe it\’s going to be fantastic…. Â I just read the comic series, and boy, if it covers it as faithfully as it appears… Â It\’s going to rock…. Or crash and burn…. Â After all, it\’s a […]
This assumes that the hard drive is physically intact. Put the drive into a 2.5″ enclosure and hook it up to another Mac. First, attempt to open the Disk Image, by going to the new drive’s USERS folder, and double clicking on the File Vault users disk image (it should be named the same as […]
Assume you want to do some work on a remote Mac via 10.5's Screen Sharing, but you forgot to enable Screen Sharing before you left the remote Mac. Since the screen sharing system uses launchd to monitor its state, enabling and disabling is as simple as adding a file in the/Libary/Preferences folder. Of course, this […]
Just remember, if you find something on your system, and you don\’t know what it is…. Â Don\’t immediately panic, try to understand the situation first. I just read a startling account, of someone thinking that StackShot, was direct evidence of their Macintosh OS X system being rooted by some evil HACKER. Stackshot is a built-in […]