A Mugging on Lake Street A veteran investigative reporter looks into his own beating and finds himself confronting harsh and lingering questions of race BY JOHN CONROY \’In my next conscious moment, I was dimly aware that I was facedown on the pavement. There was blood in my mouth.\’ I was ambushed on the […]
With every release, John Siracusa dives in and gives us an in-depth technical review of Mac OS X…. And this time, with Snow Leopard, Ars Technica & John show us again, why they are a well respected site on the internet… Dive in to Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard: the Ars Technica review. Mac […]
Typically with Mac OS X you have the volume control slider in the menu bar, and then if you want to make any other changes you would have to open System Preferences -> Sound and then make your changes…. I presume this is new in Snow Leopard, since I have not seen this documented previously, and […]
Another piece of the puzzle is almost done… Raging Menance Software has released a Snow Leopard ready beta of MenuMeters. I have missed having my network throughput & process status in the menu bar. Activity monitor is a good temporary replacement, but it\’s no MenuMeter replacement…. Plus did I mention, MenuMeters is free? http://www.ragingmenace.com/software/menumeters/
I have scientifically studied this yet… Â After all, I haven\’t even installed Bootcamp v3 drivers yet… Â But it appears that VMWare boots my bootcamp partition significantly faster under Snow Leopard, then under Leopard… Â We\’re talking a 2-4 times speed up… It would normally take 3-7 minutes for VMWare to boot my bootcamp partition and return […]
This video discusses the differences between a Pan & Scan movie & the original wide screen movie… Â And how the act of Pan & Scanning the movie, effectively recreates the movie, losing the original direction of the movie.
Folks, It appears that Google Gears v5.4.2 will install under Snow Leopard (Gold Master) [In 32bit mode], but I can\’t seem to get Gears to do anything. Â So, I suspect we have a small wait for the Google team to actually confirm that Gears works under Snow Leopard…
Folks, For the last 4 months or so, I have been part of the Appleseed beta program for Snow Leopard, and overall I have to say that Apple has done a good job so far with Snow Leopard. I just got the general release, and so far, I have run into no issues show stopping […]