The Upside Down Mac [Featured Workspace]

Lifehacker reader Kurt emailed in a fantastic little kitchen setup. Kurt had an iMac G5 on hand, and a great idea for turning a desk in his kitchen into a workspace. The design is extremely simple thanks to the all-in-one design of the iMac. (View the rest of the article at The Upside Down Mac […]

10.5.7 breaks VMWare & ATI cards?

VMware: Team Fusion: A Message to VMware Fusion Users with Macs that have ATI Graphics Cards about Apple\’s Mac OS X Update 10.5.7: \”May 13, 2009 A Message to VMware Fusion Users with Macs that have ATI Graphics Cards about Apple\’s Mac OS X Update 10.5.7 Apple released the Mac OS X 10.5.7 Update yesterday, […]

Reconfiguring your language?

A quick and easy method to change the primary language under Mac OS X is to open a terminal window, and run is command… sudo \”/System/Library/CoreServices/Language Chooser.app/Contents/MacOS/Language Chooser\” Select your language, close the language chooser and restart your system to invoke the changes.  There have been a few reports of the language settings being damaged […]

Snopes!!!!

I finally got annoyed enough at Snopes.com to find out why I can\’t highlight anything on the site.  I use the site quite often to debunk emailed chain-letters from family and friends… But, I can\’t reliably cut & paste from the site.  All I can do is Select All & Copy…  Which typically meant alot […]

What do you mean? I\’m not an Administrator?

Apple has a technote out, regarding the fact that after performing an upgrade installation (the default type) of Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, an administrator account may change to a standard one.  While I have not seen this, a co-worker has seen this once. This only affects Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard). How to fix […]

Apple has frozen Snow Leopard APIs

In the ongoing quest to finish Mac OS X 10.6, Apple has officially frozen the Snow Leopard API\’s.  For those that don\’t know this, that is a good thing, and allows the developers to know for certain that the API\’s that they are testing with are what will be shipped. What\’s an API?  Advanced Programming […]

Elgato Video Capture records analog video to MPEG-4, H.264 | Video hardware

Elgato makes some good products, but they are typically a little expensive…. Macworld has just announced that they have released \”Elgato Video Capture\”. And it\’s pretty darn inexpensive at $100… What I am more concerned with is what Software is included. EyeTV, their normal software package has a history, this new \”Video Capture Software\” that […]

What is OCSP?

5/7/09 9:09:34 AM /usr/sbin/ocspd[18764] starting 5/7/09 9:15:56 AM /usr/sbin/ocspd[18774] starting 5/7/09 9:31:07 AM /usr/sbin/ocspd[18820] starting From the Man pages, OCSPD is responsible for (security) Certificate Revocation List & Online Certificate Status Protocol responses. In other words, it handles the heavy lifting portion of the security management for Mac OS X 10.4+. OCSP is an internet protocol […]