I’ve finally joined one of the smallest clubs in the world — the “I back up my data reliably, redundantly and automatically” club. It’s a good membership to have. It offers peace of mind, and protection against accidental data deletion. Here’s how it works.
My local hard drive
The hard drive on my MacBook Pro is 160GB. [...]
Try out this smart album to find your “forgotten favorites” — songs you rated three stars or more, listened to three or more times, but for some reason haven’t heard in 6 months.
You can tweak to your liking. You might want just 4 and 5 star songs, and you might want to include unchecked [...]
“We’re going to hit the pause button on new features.”
Steve Jobs on OS X Snow Leopard
And you know what — I’m not broken up about it. Says a lot about how robust and full-featured OS X is that they can so easily “skip” a release by doing a performance/stability/behind-the-scenes update without any new user-facing [...]
Here is Safari 3 on OS X:
Here is Firefox 3 RC3 on OS X:
What gives? The active tab isn’t the same color as the toolbar background, so it looks horrible. What’s with the blue highlight when I click the active tab?
I had a bunch of fun at SXSWi 2008 with the b5media crew. We rented a big ranch house 15 minutes outside of Austin, and we had an absolute blast. As alcohol flowed freely and conversations wove their magic, there were countless little snippets of conversations that, when overheard from across the room, were marvelously [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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” [...]