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Archives for: June 2009

06/29/09

English (US) How to open a Mac OS X sparsebundle when it shows up as a regular folder

Permalink 06:51:08 pm, by Francois Planque Email , Categories: Mac stuff
What do you do if you have, say, an encrypted sparsebundle and some day you try to open it and you discover it shows up as a plain folder in the Finder instead as a bundle icon? Double clicking will just open the folder and show you the bands that mak… more »

06/27/09

English (US) Just ordered my Mac Pro 2009

Permalink 02:43:55 am, by Francois Planque Email , Categories: Geek!, Mac stuff
I finally ordered the Mac Pro that will kick the last "standing" PC out of this place :D I feel lighter already :))This is going to be my main/development machine. The PC I had for this since 2006 is actually still good from a hardware standpoint... th… more »

06/20/09

English (US) How to display Network Shares as Icons on Mac OS X desktop

Permalink 05:23:13 pm, by Francois Planque Email , Categories: Mac stuff
We had them before, but suddenly in Mac OS X 10.5 they disappeared! However, whenever I want to grab something on the network, my intuitive reflex is to look for the network drive icon on the desktop! :'(I had to dig around quite a while to find teh se… more »

06/19/09

English (US) Keyboard layout editor for Mac OS X

Permalink 07:17:55 pm, by Francois Planque Email , Categories: Geek!, Mac stuff
One thing I hate about US keyboards is that they don't let me type my French special characters by any memorable strecth -- what's the dead key for the cedilla again? (ç)One thing I hate about French keytboards is that they have all the punctuation key… more »