A Creative Solution to Mac App Store & GPL Conflict
It’s no secret that the Mac App Store has a lot of unresolved issues. The looming, pushed back revised June 1 deadline for all Mac App Store apps to be sandboxed is adding to that series of issues. But I want to talk about one that’s about 18 months old, and that’s the Mac App [...]
Follow-up to the XPostFacto Mountain Lion Story
If you’re catching this article via search engines, it’s a follow-up to my previous article on the potential for Mountain Lion to run on machines below the system requirements. Media reports are now that the graphics chipset — not the kernel — are what is holding up Mountain Lion on older Macs. OpenGL 4 support [...]
Looking for Drag Lock on Your New MacBook Air or Pro?
Apple often rearranges keystrokes, trackpad options, and keyboard controls after releasing a new version of Mac OS X. These “benefits” are rolled in to new Mac models, and eventually become the new standard, at least typically. And I don’t mean to say that these new features aren’t benefits. Apple takes full advantage of new hardware, [...]
XPostFacto for Mountain Lion Could Bring Faster Old Macs to Life
Apple’s requirement of a 64-bit kernel for Mac OS X Mountain Lion is going to draw ire from many in the Mac community. Stretching back to 2006, many Mac owners were concerned that their EFI Firmware only supported a 32-bit kernel. This was known as EFI32, with the 64-bit EFI known as, you guessed it, [...]
Support Boot Camp, Download Drivers on Each Install
One major change in OS X Lion is the addition of downloading Windows 7 Boot Camp drivers over the web. It’s something I’ve called for, for a really… really… really… long time. One nice thing about this feature (for Apple) is that it now allows Apple to get something it did not have before: usage [...]
Apple Drops Mac from Mac OS X Lion
Apple has made a subtle late change to the branding for Mac OS X 10.7 “Lion”. If you look at Apple Support Documents, and the Apple product pages, they refer to the product as “OS X Lion“. Not “Mac OS X Lion” or “Mac OS 10.7″, simply “OS X Lion”. Note that this title lacks [...]
Clearing the Air on Apple, Intel, and NeXT
I want to clear up some crazy hype that has formed around Apple’s acquisition of NeXT as of late. Since Steve Jobs’ passing, there’s been a lot of attention, and a bit of revisionist history about the past. Back when Apple was burying Copland, there was a hurry for a new platform. Basically, it was [...]
On Steve Jobs
My interactions with Steve were typically very brief, mostly (thankfully not always) through intermediaries… friends, emails, and even campaigns. I did get much closer than most ever did, and I got to talk to him more than most ever dream. It brightens my day when he acknowledged (once or twice) that I was right. And, [...]
Momentus XT SD28 — Success!
Debriefing my update to Momentus XT firmware SD28, the process was a success. There were, however, some woes along the way of updating the firmware. Read more to see the whole journey.
iCloud’s Beta: More of the same?
I will start this article by saying that we don’t know everything that will be in iCloud just yet. However, I will say that I am disappointed at the pricing that has emerged on other web sites (here’s just one for example). At double the pricing for Amazon’s Cloud Drive, I can’t say I’ll be [...]
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