Wednesday April 25, 2007
Evidently this image is the second most popular result for ‘leopard’ on the internet…which is fine with me.
I can’t recall where I originally found this, but it is spectacular. Enjoy it!
PS: Please take a moment to check out the rest of the site while you’re here, won’t you?
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Monday April 23, 2007
Panic, the makers of Transmit and CandyBar, today have released their new web editing app, Coda. A spectacular interface coupled with some powerful tools is going to make Coda the program to beat for this marketspace.
Some cool features of Coda include:
Integrated FTP, SSH, SFTP - even imports your Transmit favorites
Tabbed interface for sites, files, terminal, books …
Saturday April 21, 2007
Macitt.com is essentially Digg for the Mac community. Users submit links of interest, and other users vote them up based on their level of interest. It’s a great way to see what’s popular or interesting in the Mac-o-sphere.
Anyway, they are having a contest in which you can win an Apple TV. All you have to do is …
Friday April 20, 2007
In case you weren’t aware, retailer CompUSA is closing down 100+ stores in the US. The stores are liquidating all merchandise, including accessories, software and computers.
I was in today, and picked up the following:
Retail copy of Parallels Desktop - $58
Several iPod battery extenders - $1.99 each
Additionally, they have all versions of Windows Vista for 40% off retail, and a …
Thursday April 19, 2007
An accident at work has left a 17″ MBP with coffee inside the lcd, keyboard and trackpad. The victim, on seeing the spill, immediately turned the system upside down/sideways to try to get the coffee to drain off/out.
Almost worked, but some got into the screen and it’s pretty bad. Taking it over to Apple, but it’s not a covered thing, …
Wednesday April 18, 2007
This evening, after arriving home and being unable to connect to my Airport AGAIN, I gave up on Leopard and decided to put Tiger back on my machine. I backed up my stuff, found my original installation DVDs and set to work.
After booting to the 1st DVD, I clicked through the first installation screen and was greeted by the prompt ‘This software cannot be installed on this computer’.
Sorry, what?
I went into Disk Utility, thinking that perhaps the GUID partition had been screwed up by installing leopards version of BootCamp. I partitioned, erased and rebooted the system, making sure the partition type was right.
Same thing on the reboot. Ok…what the hell? I restarted again and ejected the install DVD to make sure I had grabbed the right disc. Yep, ‘17-inch Macbook Pro’. How odd, thought I, as I wondered exactly what was happening.
So I decided to boot again, then time to the Leopard DVD I originally started with a few short days ago. Blinking folder. Peachy…just peachy. Reboot. Nope. Zap pram. Nope. Pray. Nope. Curse loudly. Nope.
Ok, let’s see. What else can I do? I head to the closet and open my disc library (a cardboard box filled with obsolete software and various connectors to devices I no longer own). Hey…what’s that? Oh, an install kit for a Macbook Pro.
Tuesday April 17, 2007
Check this out. If you hold down the ‘Shift’ key while moving your cursor over the Dock, it will magnify regardless of your Pref Pane settings. Pretty cool, eh?
(I want to throw out a VERY huge thanks to Andy, my best friend and co-conspirator, for the awesome job he did on this video…we plan to do many more in the …
Monday April 16, 2007
I’ve been using Leopard in its various incarnations for almost a year now (Actually, a year in August, when I got the long awaited WWDC DVD). It’s been a long road, full of headaches followed by nearly immediate reinstalls of Tiger. It hasn’t been fun…
But this past week, Apple released a new seed build (9a410). This one is by far the most stable version yet, but there are still several little things broken that really shouldn’t be, in my oh-so-humble opinion.
The hubbub over the past few weeks has been about an October release date, fueled by the need to add iPhone and AppleTV specific features, but I gotta say: I think it needs more than a few additional bells and whistles added. There are still some kinks that need to be worked out.
Here are a few of the things that are bugging me so far. The thing to remember is that these ARE bugs and will hopefully be fixed by release, but I can’t avoid thinking that if things like these are still problems, then there may be larger issues we’re not aware of.
Friday April 13, 2007
You’ve got to check this site out: Bittbox.com
Aside from being the place we got our awesome RSS icon from (See it over there, to the right? Good, now click it!), Bittbox offers some amazing tips and tricks as well as literally hundreds of free brushes, patterns, fonts and vectors.
Did I mention they are all free? If you’re a budding …
Friday
http://maczot.com/discuss/?p=375 - starting at 13:13pm PDT (that’s 1:13 PDT, 4:13 EST), MacZot members will be able to buy thirteen (13) great Mac apps for a grand total of only $13 USD.
Currently the apps include:
DEVONthink Personal
Disco
AppZapper
RapidWeaver
Business Trio 2007
iClip 4
The rest are being revealed throughout the day.
So go take a look …