Full changelog for Mac OS X 10.6.3 update: General operating system fixes and improvements provided for: * performance of Logic Pro 9 and Main Stage 2 when running in 64-bit mode. * printing reliability. * sleep and wake reliability when using Bonjour wake on demand. * a color issue in iMovie with HD content. * […]
A little under two weeks after Apple previously seeded a build of Mac OS X 10.6.3 the company has released a new seed labelled 10D571. Mac OS X 10.6.3 has been in developer testing since early January and continues to deliver enhancements and bug fixes. Unlike previous builds 10D571 comes with one known issue. Seed […]
Well, there’s now a new version of iStumbler… Â iStumbler 99. If your not aware of iStumbler, it is a wireless discovery tool, allowing you easy access to the signal strength, noise ratio, active channel, frequency, and other wireless information from one useful tool. iStumbler 99 Requires Mac OS 10.6.2 (Snow Leopard) or later. AirPort Plugin […]
Well, if it isn’t one thing, it has to be another…. I’ve been suffering with these errors for a while, and I think I just stumbled upon the trigger… 3/9/10 12:37:56 PM [0x0-0x206e06c].com.ranchero.NetNewsWire[97172] Tue Mar  9 12:37:56 dhcp105-37 NetNewsWire[97172] <Error>: kCGErrorIllegalArgument: CGSGetWindowBounds: NULL window Here’s the thread I just found kCGErrorIllegalArgument errors with Camino 2.0.1.  And […]
Since installing Mac OS X 10.6, whenever I empty the trash, it takes about 50x as long as it used to under 10.5. I just emptied about 100 files (totaling 50 megs / all local files), and it was about 20 minutes. It feels like its doing a secure delete, but I’m just using the […]
World of Apple once again has the 10.6.3 Beta seed notes for 10D561. Apple has once again released a build of Mac OS X 10.6.3 to developers for testing prior to a public release. The build labelled 10D561 is largely similar to previous releases and continues to contain no known issues. Of note Mac OS […]
One method to help automate screen sharing with Mac OS X, was to create a vncloc alias for each system that you were connecting to.  In 10.6 this has been mostly automated. To find these shortcuts, navigate to your user’s Library -> Application Support folder, where you’ll find a folder named Screen Sharing. Inside that […]
I recently upgraded from Mac OS X 10.4 to 10.6, and noticed that the power saving profiles have disappeared from the menu bar’s Battery Status menus. Luckily, this functionality is still accessible via the command line. Open Terminal and type the following command in order to set the profile to be used when using the […]