Google Gears, Mac, and Caching
If you’ve been using Google Gears for Mac, you might have noticed sometimes that the Gears setup for a particular web site… sometimes vanishes. You have to re-enable Gears for each web site which you had approved it for. Why is this? Well, Google is deploying the Gears setup inside of /Users/yourname/Library/Cache (or, ~/Library/Cache as [...]
Weirdest Mac OS X Corruption Yet
I’m just wrapping up an all-day restoration of my MacBook Pro… complete with clean install of Leopard. I was at a lunch the day before, talking up how my MacBook Pro has been running without a hitch, while everyone else was complaining about MacBook failures. I was asking for it… and boy did I get [...]
MobileMe Lacks Web Bookmarks: Sales Tactic?
Along with MobileMe’s launch came the lack of a feature that was in .Mac: Web Bookmark access. Now, most would say that Apple’s primary excuse for gutting the feature would be that most people didn’t use it. And, I’m sure parsing sync data to display bookmarks in a web format might have taken some adaptation [...]
Download: MobileMe Update for Mac OS X
Having trouble installing the MobileMe update that was just released? You’re not alone. The workaround at present is to sign out of .Mac (from inside System Preferences), and the sign in again. After a minute you should get a dialogue to open Apple Software Update. If you don’t, download from the link below… I’m hosting [...]
Learning Objective-C & Cocoa
A huge, huge part of MechaWorks is going to be focused on software development. But, there’s one little problem: I can’t code. Now, that’s not as huge of a problem as it sounds; I’m great at leading programmers. I can diagram and explain every Mac OS X API, I’m able to tell people why things [...]
iPhone & Mac ALS: Same, But Different
One thing that has really caused me to scratch my head since last June, is the difference between how the Ambient Light Sensors (ALS) on iPhone and Mac respond. After doing a lot of testing, I’ve found that the difference can be explained in software. But, that still doesn’t explain exactly why Apple has chose [...]
Get Firefox 3.0, Help Set World Record
Firefox 3.0 is now out. Go grab it and help Mozilla set a world record for the number of downloads in a single day. Firefox 3.0 is a real improvement for both Mac and PC. Both have a dramatically faster download speed, themes that match the operating systems, and the Mac version swapps out older, [...]
Why Snow Leopard should be a Public Beta
By now, you’ve probably heard of Mac OS X 10.6, Snow Leopard. Snow Leopard’s goal is to not focus on a single new feature… or rather, not a single new feature for users. Instead, Snow Leopard’s goal is to take a holistic view to Mac OS X performance. In other words, the sole purpose of Snow Leopard’s [...]
Microsoft: Buy Vista, Because Mac Uses It
Microsoft keeps coming up with creative marketing to sell Windows Vista on customers. Now, I actually have far fewer complaints than most about Vista. In fact, all my primary PCs run Vista. But, this marketing line is definintely a new one. In their latest TechNet email, Microsoft decided to use it pitch Vista to IT [...]
At Least I’m Not Kenneth Eddings…
No offense to Mr. Eddings, his email box is full today… with junk press requests trying to confirm .Mac’s transition to Me.com. As MacRumors has picked apart, Me.com appears to be the new site for Apple’s .Mac service, and Kenneth Eddings over at Apple is listed in the SOA record as the technical contact… confirming [...]
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