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| Twingly for the Mac
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The developers of Twingly (http://www.twingly.se/ScreenSaver.aspx) are considering releasing the source so that mac and linux versions can be built... It's mainly written in mono so porting should be...
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| Posted by themexican, on Mar 1, 2007 at 02:01 AM, in macOS |
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| raul
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he actually runs linux mainly (accessing windows through wine)... so he knows about the unixy stuff... the list is mainly for fun, to get him excited when he comes over to the fold. He's been...
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| Posted by themexican, on Feb 19, 2007 at 03:49 AM, in macOS |
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| Geeky Things One Can do with OS X
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i'm compiling a list for a PC friend who is considering switching but is worried he won't be able to geek out on OS X the way he could with under windows... So I'm going to blog a list of geeky...
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| Posted by themexican, on Feb 19, 2007 at 01:01 AM, in macOS |
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| Dejavu
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There have been rumors of major interface changes before each and every os x release and each release ends up being pretty much what was expected given the developer releases with some interface...
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| Posted by themexican, on Dec 12, 2006 at 11:23 PM, in macOS |
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| Aperture
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Has anyone else noticed how fast Aperture is with thumnails? I plug my camera in (D70) and within a blink of the eye everything is thumbnailed and ready for import
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| Posted by themexican, on Dec 1, 2005 at 09:22 AM, in Applications |
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| OS X 10.43 Web Hosting Issue
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I recently bought a dual core 2.3.. instead of copying over my files individually and setting everything up again I used the new built in migration program.
Most applications and prefs copied over...
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| Posted by themexican, on Nov 11, 2005 at 04:37 PM, in macOS |
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| In general no problems... but I'm sad to report...
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In general no problems... but I'm sad to report iPhoto is still broken (iPhoto starts to collapse at around 17,000 RAW images)... crashes, hangs, inability to import, general flakiness are still the...
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| Posted by themexican, on Nov 1, 2005 at 01:29 PM, in macOS |
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| I spent part of my Saturday playing with a...
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I spent part of my Saturday playing with a Quad/Aperture at the Photo Expo here in NYC. Even though I'm a hardware junky I didn't expect to be be blown away, but I was. These things just fly. I was...
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| Posted by themexican, on Oct 24, 2005 at 03:05 AM, in Mac Desktops |
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| copying files from single user mode
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Here's the situation:
I have a powerbook with serious hard disk problems. It won't boot and even firewire mode is problematic (I believe the drive has physical problems), but I can boot into...
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| Posted by themexican, on Sep 27, 2005 at 09:59 AM, in macOS |
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| Safari mime types
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How do I map mime types for Safari?
Right now Safari is attempting to open windows media files with quicktime (which fails) something I don't want (I'd rather them go to the windows media player)....
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| Posted by themexican, on Sep 6, 2005 at 05:42 PM, in macOS |
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| iPhoto 5 crashing on import
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My iPhoto 5 is crashing on import... this is happening even though I have rebuilt the library from scratch. I think it's an iphoto bug I'm running into. Does anyone have similar experience or...
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| Posted by themexican, on Sep 2, 2005 at 11:13 AM, in Applications |
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| I use it all the time to search for text in docs....
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I use it all the time to search for text in docs. But I've become increasingly annoyed at the UI. Also I really miss having the option to limit a search to the current folder in finder windows. I...
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| Posted by themexican, on Jul 16, 2005 at 10:14 PM, in macOS |
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| Re not supporting classic, I agree that Apple...
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Re not supporting classic, I agree that Apple wants classic to die (remember the "funeral" Steve had a few years ago. It's hard enough for developers to support classic/OS X. Now they will have to...
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| Posted by themexican, on Jun 15, 2005 at 05:13 PM, in macOS |
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| Kicking airport users
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I keep an open airport wifi connection at my house. In general I don't mind if some of my neighbors connect, but sometimes I need extra bandwidth.
Is there a simple way to look at the current list...
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| Posted by themexican, on Jun 11, 2005 at 09:28 PM, in Networking |
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| We upgraded all our computers here (lots of...
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We upgraded all our computers here (lots of them)... while there were some minor issues (like disk churning until we turned off indexing of the microsoft user data folder) and various compatibility...
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| Posted by themexican, on Jun 7, 2005 at 12:03 PM, in macOS |
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| FYI: The answer is this:
Insert this into...
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FYI: The answer is this:
Insert this into httpd.conf:
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Alias /Sites/ "/Users/yourusername/Sites/"
<Directory "/Users/yourusername/Sites/">
Options Indexes MultiViews...
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| Posted by themexican, on May 23, 2005 at 11:36 AM, in macOS |
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| yes.... and I found the bit to control the...
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yes.... and I found the bit to control the index.html, index.htm and index.php files... but I can't seem to turn on the directory feature for directories without index files. Anyone?
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| Posted by themexican, on May 21, 2005 at 07:39 PM, in macOS |
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| serving web pages in Tiger
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I was serving web pages in Panther without a problem, but when I upgraded to tiger it knocked out my apache prefs.
I got back php without a problem (instructions here:...
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| Posted by themexican, on May 20, 2005 at 08:09 PM, in macOS |
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| on my machines tiger has made life easier by...
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on my machines tiger has made life easier by making the finder faster and more responsive and by allowing us to search mountains of data very very fast in spotlight. Also safari is faster/more...
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| Posted by themexican, on May 4, 2005 at 01:41 PM, in macOS |
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| even worse you can have a standard iphoto...
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even worse you can have a standard iphoto installation in which you've selected an iphoto library on an external drive (totally kosher, nothing weird about this), but if it's not in your personal...
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| Posted by themexican, on May 4, 2005 at 12:08 AM, in macOS |
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| Spotlight is way too slow to be an app launcher....
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Spotlight is way too slow to be an app launcher. also it doesn't learn from my keystrokes. I tried replacing launch bar with spotlight, but that little experiment lasted about 15 minutes. viva launch...
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| Posted by themexican, on May 3, 2005 at 01:11 AM, in macOS |
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| Seems to me Apple should have left the finder...
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Seems to me Apple should have left the finder search pane with options as it was in Panther. When I search in the finder I often just want to search a folder or a drive... and left spotlight as a...
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| Posted by themexican, on May 2, 2005 at 09:13 AM, in macOS |
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| If you do a simple upgrade, you still have...
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If you do a simple upgrade, you still have stuffit.
Alternately if you did an archive & install you can search for all items that contain "stuff" in your archived system and replace them in the...
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| Posted by themexican, on May 1, 2005 at 11:42 AM, in macOS |
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| Poll: We did a big install here on about 30 machines...
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We did a big install here on about 30 machines yesterday. We were having more problems with archive and install than we were with simple upgrades, so we started just upgrading.
Everyone has been...
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| Posted by themexican, on Apr 30, 2005 at 12:26 PM, in macOS |
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| iphoto/VM? crash
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My iphoto installation on my main HD crashes while importing files. Specifically it crashes after importing all the files but before updating the database (so all the files are in the proper places,...
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| Posted by themexican, on Apr 11, 2005 at 09:20 PM, in Applications |
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| These posts helped me troubleshoot. Many thanks....
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These posts helped me troubleshoot. Many thanks. I have a pretty big iphoto lib. 24,000 pix all 6megapixel.
I had three problems:
1) unreferenced items in the database: fixed via a rebuild and...
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| Posted by themexican, on Mar 24, 2005 at 01:16 AM, in macOS |
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| Hmm... weird. I have 3 gigs of RAM and many many...
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Hmm... weird. I have 3 gigs of RAM and many many gigs to spare on the hard disk. perhaps some of that ram is bad and iphoto is the only app that consumes enough RAM to touch it.
(I posted in apps...
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| Posted by themexican, on Mar 21, 2005 at 12:32 PM, in macOS |
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| malloc: vm_allocate crashes
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My iphoto keeps crashing when I import with this error in the console:
*** malloc: vm_allocate(size=280117248) failed (error code=3)
*** malloc[1987]: error: Can't allocate region
Any ideas...
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| Posted by themexican, on Mar 21, 2005 at 01:56 AM, in macOS |
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| iphoto 5 crashing
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My iphoto 5 is crashing every time I import from a digital camera. This is new (no problems earlier).
Troubleshooting steps i've taken so far:
1. removed .data files
2. rebuilt library
3....
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| Posted by themexican, on Mar 12, 2005 at 10:58 AM, in Applications |
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