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 […]
First, Breathe… Â Yes, take a few deep breathes…. You see, we’re all doomed… Â Yes, indeedy, doomed I say. Â After all, the Macintosh Dashboard is the vector which all viruses will be created with in mind… Â And Windows viruses will disappear due to the popularity of the Dashboard vector…. Â (SLAP)… Â Sorry, I needed that, I was […]
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. […]
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 […]
Just remember, if you find something on your system, and you don’t know what it is…. Â Don’t immediately panic, try to understand the situation first. I just read a startling account, of someone thinking that StackShot, was direct evidence of their Macintosh OS X system being rooted by some evil HACKER. Stackshot is a built-in […]
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 […]