I recently went to install a Mac Mini at a remote location. The Intel-based Mac Mini is a small, low-power, full-function AMD64 machines. But first, I ran into one problem. And it's a known problem with older Mac Minis: they don't power up when power is applied. Somebody "thunk different", …
For any random OS X update that hangs in the dreaded "SoftwareUpdateLauncher" gray screen, do the following:
I have grown tired of hearing how Apple is so much more noble than Android because Apple always provides OS support for older devices. I really don't want to hear this argument anymore, because it's a load of you-know-what.
Case in point. I paid for a license to Keynote, Apple's wonderful slide …
When you move the mouse into the "hot corner" to activate Screen Lock, there is a brief interval (maybe only a second) during which if you move the mouse out of the hot corner, the screen is unlocked!!!
This is idiotic. As I have said many times, Apple should abolish the use of "hot …
Apple's much-heralded Tiger, offically called Mac OS X 10.4, contains many nice advances, including Dashboard, Automator, and more. But concurrent with Tiger's release, Apple appears to have gone out of their way to break Sun's venerable old "Write Once, Run Anywhere" mantra. Not only are …
Catch my OReillyNet review of Keynote, Apple's new Presentation Software for Mac OS X.
My article on Mac Security appears on O'ReillyNet.
CNN's technology writer Brian Clark agrees that OS X is UNIX for the masses.
I spoke about Servlets and Tomcat for MacOS X at the O'Reilly MacOS X Conference. But I also attended sessions, and have come away with the conclusion that MacOS X (and its BSD "Darwin" core) are significant - finally a UNIX version that works as a consumer platform. Way to go Apple!