After taking a brief holiday break, Apple managed to release the first developer beta of Mac OS X 10.6.3 last week. Among the 221 code changes, there appears to be some initial support for parts of the OpenGL 3.0 spec, though Apple will have a long way to go before Snow Leopard is OpenGL 3-ready. […]
Ars Technica’s John Siracusa is having flashbacks…  He is reviewing and commenting on his 10 years of Apple Mac OS X reviews… The latter half of the 1990s was a dark time for the company then known as Apple Computer, Inc. Windows 95 had dashed any remaining hopes of mass-market desktop dominance for Apple. The big […]
Assume you want to do some work on a remote Mac via 10.5's Screen Sharing, but you forgot to enable Screen Sharing before you left the remote Mac. Since the screen sharing system uses launchd to monitor its state, enabling and disabling is as simple as adding a file in the/Libary/Preferences folder. Of course, this […]
As I have stated before, I just upgraded to a 2413U controller, and it’s made a large difference in my setup. Â Overall, in raw statistics the house went down a percentage or two for signal reliablitity, but overall everything seems faster… Â And more reliable, even though the raw statistics say it isn’t as reliable as […]
First, the brick & mortar Apple Stores will offer to migrate your data for free, if the new system is purchased from them, the main hassel is the wait, and bringing in the old system. Alternatively, on the new system, as soon as it is booted will offer to migrate the old computers data. All […]
Question: I was using Disk Utility to do a “Verify Permission” and I got the following message: Warning: SUID file “System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/MacOS/ARDAgent” has been modified and will not be repaired. It’s a known issue, and actually a bogus message. It has been around since Mac OS X 10.5, and while it has changed for Mac OS […]
In Apple Remote Desktop 3.3, Apple changed the behavior of key commands during screen sharing. In this knowledge-base article, one of the listed “improvements” is this: When controlling a remote client, function keys and key combinations for actions such as Force Quit, Log Out, and the Application Switcher are now all sent to the remote […]
I can’t believe that someone would expect us to believe this…. Â But, it is on the Huffingtonpost…. Â But supposedly Gerald Sindell, has had a iTablet, and is breaking rank & file, throwing away his NDA… Â And not expecting to be sued by Apple…(It’s bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad humor. Ignore it, maybe it’ll go […]