\”[…] Very softly, at seemingly random intervals, I hear a noise like a gunshot or a bomb/cannon going off. […]\” There are a few reasons you might hear something like that… First, check in System Preferences, under Sound, and see what Alert Sound you have defined. Second, check iChat\’s own Sound Effects.  Especially the \”Buddy becomes […]
What sort of research group \’plagiarizes\’ a report advocating for stronger intellectual property laws? And why does the Business Software Alliance give specific percentages for software piracy even in countries where it has done no surveys? A Canadian law professor raised those questions this week—and got results. (View the rest of the article at Ars […]
Panic, the guys who make really great Mac software like Transmit, Coda, CandyBar, and Unison, are having a big 50% off sale. Check out their hilarious infomercial. (Via Laughing Squid)
Folks, Version 1.50C 1.50E is now available for the Indigo Remote Log Viewer…. This fixes a small bug that was added when I added CSS support… Â The Filter by Type option was not working correctly, and is now functional…. [download id=\”7627\”] In addition to the Version C changes above, the E version includes: Support for […]
I don\’t know what Sophos is smoking, but they have just released a KLINGON language version of the Sophos Antivirus suite. Klingon Anti-Virus
Here\’s a how to that will allow you to \”fake\” a monitor… How to setup a false monitor.\” Please note, I have not tried this. This is certainly an \”at your own risk\” procedure… But I can\’t see how any damage could be caused… (View the rest of the article at Faking a second monitor)
There have been reports of slow boot ups when running Windows Vista… Â But so far far, it appears to be a variety of issues… Â One issue is the GPCLIENT service taking an long time to startup during boot up… Check your DNS settings on the Vista client, and make sure that the Fastest DNS server […]
Over at Macintouch, a user has contributed an Applescript that will display when the amount of freespace on the drive, drops below a preset limit. tell application \’Finder\’ — sets up variables set theSize to capacity of startup disk — total size of disk set freeSpace to free space of startup disk — amount of […]