The argument goes something like this: Fan Boy: “Mac OS X is immune to viruses” Windows: “No it isn’t. Â Windows is just more dominant, so of course people are making viruses for it” Fan Boy: “No it’s Windows poor security” Windows FB: “Honestly, if OS X was really virus proof, don’t you think Microsoft would […]
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 […]
Goody! Â A new VMware Fusion 3.1 Beta Now Available!!! Â Why am I excited? Â Well, I prefer Parallels, but for some reason Parallels doesn’t work on my Mac Pro. Â It complains that the hard drive is unavailable, and can’t be found.. Â Yet, if I make any configuration changes, it now magically works, until I reboot the […]
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 […]
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. […]