Can’t use a Vise Installer? Here’s the fix…

Evidently, some versions of the Vise Installer don’t quite work properly under Mac OS X… Here’s why…  The symptom is that your computer slows down or stops responding…  The Installer splash screen may display, but the Vise Installer typically stops at the “Gathering Details” screen. Why?  You have a “network volume” mounted, it could be […]

What’s VQ_VERYLOWDISK & why is it in my log?

For example: 9/4/10 1:48:31 PM KernelEventAgent[72] tid 00000000 received event(s) VQ_LOWDISK, VQ_VERYLOWDISK (516) This indicates that Mac OS X has detected a drive (hard drive, RAM drive, Zip Drive, etc), that is very low or out of disk space.  If this is your boot drive, you will receive a POP up warning message that the […]

Rochester International Airport Hydrogen Fire & Explosion

There was a hydrogen fire and explosion at a renewable fuel station used by government vehicles near Rochester’s airport. The nearby freeway and airport was closed resulting in diverted flights. This may the first major incident at a hydrogen vehicle refueling station. GM has their major fuel cell development center nearby, in the town of […]

Could there be upcoming video driver updates for the Mac?

Well, Valve thinks so, they just released updates to Portal, Half-Life 2, Half-Life 2: Episode One and Half-Life 2: Episode Two have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include: Changes to take advantage of upcoming Mac graphics driver update Fixed door getting stuck as […]

Mac OS X 10.6.5 Beta Build (10H525) – World of Apple

Apple has released to developers the first build of Mac OS X 10.6.5. The previous update to Mac OS X, 10.6.4 was released in mid-June, not long after Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference. Mac OS X 10.6.5 build 10H525 weighs in at 517MB for the delta update and contains just five focus areas, two known issues and […]

Windows Drivers for Magic Trackpad?

Assuming that you don’t have a Macintosh, and you want to use the Magic Trackpad on a Windows system.  All you need is the Apple Magic Trackpad Update 1.0 for Windows, from apple’s site, and a copy of 7-zip. Extract the contents of the exe, then extract the contents of the MSP file inside. There […]