MacOS has been my desktop platform of choice since 2005 or so..
I started to really warm up to the Mac when the first Mac Mini came out (early 2005) and I made the Mac my primary desktop and development machine with some of the earlier Mac Pros (not sure which one though). I have been very disappointed in newer Mac Pros though…
Lately, I have found the Mac Studio to be a decent proposition… compared to the competition. And that’s only because the competition still hasn’t caught up to MacOS, not because I really like the way Apple closes down everything :/
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How to open a Mac OS X sparsebundle when it shows up as a regular folder
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…...
Just ordered my Mac Pro 2009
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…...
How to display Network Shares as Icons on Mac OS X desktop
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…...
How to edit your keyboard layout on Mac OS X
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…...
Video files in iMovie
I just have to say how much I love the way iMovie '09 handles video files. When you import video, you can save it to any drive connected to your Mac. It will go to a folder named "iMovie Events" on the selected partition. Whenever that partition gets…...
How to get AC-3 5.1 surround sound on your Mac
So your hooked up your Mac to your 5.1 receiver and all you get is lousy stereo? Worry no more, decent AC-3 support is finally available for Mac OSX!
In my case I have an Intel Mac Mini from 2006 hooked up to a Denon AVR-3801 via a fiber optic S/PDIF…...
How to fix Mac OS X Terminal Page Up/Down + Home/End of line
If your Page Up/Down and Home/End of line keys don't seem to work in Mac OS X Terminal, here's how to fix them!...
How to use SSH private keys on Mac OS X
First cool thing that everybody knows already: Mac OSX is based on Unix so you get ssh out of the box.
Second cool thing you may not know: OS X 10.5 actually also comes with an ssh key agent (ssh-agent). That means that, without any additional softwar…...
What's MISSING in the MacBook Air...
Once again, Steve Jobs gave one of his legendary keynote addresses and once again he announced a lot a nice to breathtaking products and enhancements.
But once again, he left out quite a few details.
And once again, I am going to point them out!…...
About Apple Design
"Apple's design is supposed to be the ultimate perfection in 21st century computing. We should all learn from them."
I get that a lot when discussing b2evolution's user interface (which, btw, I like to think has improved significantly in version 2.0.…...
