February 13, 2008 – 1:37 pm
Aperture 2 has been released! It is faster, more powerful, has better workflow and layout. Unfortunately Aperture 2 isn’t in Apple stores yet, and Apple’s online store doesn’t seem to offer a download option for Aperture. There is, however, a downloadable trial. But the downloadable trial can’t upgrade an existing Aperture library. So here is how you do it:Go into your <code>/Applications/</code> folder and rename your existing copy of Aperture to “Aperture Old Version”. Download the trial (you’ll need a trial code which will be sent by e-mail). Start up the trial version using the trial code. Then click the “buy” button. You’ll be given an option to get a downloadable serial number. Upon buying it you’ll instantly get a code that will turn the trial into the full version, along with the ability to upgrade an existing library. Close Aperture, delete the “trial library” that was created, and then restart Aperture. It’ll ask for a library. Point it to your Aperture 1.5 library. It will upgrade your library and you’ll be on your way!
November 26, 2007 – 4:10 pm
I would kill for this hypothetical machine:
MacBook Nano
- Intel Core 2 Duo @ 2.0 GHz
- 2GB RAM
- 32 GB solid state hard drive
- 11 inch LCD @ 1280×800 resolution (16:10 ratio)
- ExpressCard slot
- iSight camera
- mini-DVI out
- USB 2.0 x2
- 6+ hours of battery life
- Less than $3,000 USD
Note the lack of DVD drive, to save space. This thing should be small and light. I’d be okay with a keyboard that wasn’t quite full size… but no smaller than 80% of full size.
I’d take this with me everywhere, along with an EVDO ExpressCard. This machine could do everything than my MacBook Pro could do, minus Aperture (too small of a screen, not enough storage space).
Am I the only one who thinks that these, like the 12″ PowerBook before it, would sell like hotcakes?
November 21, 2007 – 5:31 pm
In OS X Leopard (can’t confirm earlier versions), if you have a Finder window spanning multiple physical monitors or multiple virtual Spaces, or extending off the edge of any physical monitor, try dragging a file and dangling it over that Finder window. The Finder window will smoothly slide into the current physical monitor on the current space, giving you access to all the visible contents of that folder. Drop the file or unhover and the window will smoothly slide back to its original position. Nifty.Bonus tip: set up a corner to activate Spaces and another to activate Exposé. Now you can drag a file to any window on any space without touching the keyboard.
November 20, 2007 – 5:09 pm
One of OS X Tiger’s most annoying bugs to me was that the zoom functionality was broken for multi-monitor setups. It’d work at first, but when you moved your mouse, it’d go all screwy. It was useless. I’m not sure if it was fixed in OS X Leopard or the 10.5.1 update — but it works now!
November 14, 2007 – 11:05 pm
My wife and I were having a “yes” … “no” battle, and I was getting tired of saying “no” over and over again. So I typed a bunch of “no’s” into QuickSilver and invoked the “speak text” action. OS X Leopard’s “Alex” voice kicked in with a litany of “no’s.” And then about ten “no’s” in, he took a breather. No really, he inhaled. And at regular intervals, he took more breaths. It was creepy.
November 2, 2007 – 7:00 pm
Google has been rolling out a Gmail 2.0 update for the past few days. I just got the update a few minutes ago, and the first thing I noticed was that every view now has a permalink! The address bar updates as you navigate the application. Each e-mail thread has its own URL, and each label and folder has its own URL. Even searches have unique URLs.
Google is accomplishing this by using anchor permalinks that are able to be dynamically updated without a page refresh.
Inbox: http://mail.google.com/mail/#inbox
Individual message: http://mail.google.com/mail/#inbox/1ef02abc56fe3127
Search: http://mail.google.com/mail/#search/test+search
Label: http://mail.google.com/mail/#label/Twitter
The search one will be especially useful, as browser search boxes and tools such as Quicksilver will now be able to point to Gmail search results.
Unfortunately the new version of Gmail seems to have serious issues with Safari 3.0 in OS X Leopard — so there are clearly some bugs to be worked out yet.
October 28, 2007 – 10:00 pm
I’ve been eyeing the Infrant ReadyNAS NV+ system to solve my ever-expanding appetite for storage space. I know the device can handle four 750GB drives for a total of 2.25 TB of space (RAID5), but can it handle four 1TB drives for a total of 3 TB of space? 1TB drives are expensive, but I can start out with two, and use their “RAID-X” technology to add new ones ones prices drop a bit. Has anyone done this? Does the system support drives that big?
September 15, 2007 – 4:29 pm
I’ve found myself using Safari as my main browser. I love Firefox, but it’s too buggy and slow to be my main browser. One thing I miss is the Greasemonkey script that would forward me to https://mail.google.com/ when using GMail (giving me a secure connection — great when using WiFi).
Solution: Creammonkey + GMail Secure Greasemonkey script
September 3, 2007 – 10:35 pm
Documents that end in RTFD are of the type Rich Text Format Directory. They’re basically rich text documents that support images.
Because they’re the native format of OS X’s TextEdit, they tend to be used for ReadMe files.
Hence this:
Because of this, and because of the extension’s similarity to RTFM, I always see them as: “Read Me — READ THE F#%KING DOCUMENT!”