Spiderweb Software releases Geneforge 5: Overthrow
Spiderweb software on Wednesday released the final sequel to the Genefore fantasy RPG series, Geneforge 5: Overthrow. The game takes place in a land ruled by beings, known as Shapers, that are able to create life. When the creations decide to rebel against their rulers, a war breaks out between the factions, destroying the land and leading to a conflict that remains stuck in a stalemate. As the ma...
published on Wednesday, the 26. November 2008, macintosh-news-network
10.5: Safer sleep during networked Time Machine backups
The problem: You have Time Machine set up using a sparsebundle on a network drive, such as a Time Capsule or an AirPort Extreme-connected hard drive. Most of the time, everything works great. Consider this reproducible scenario, however:You are working away at home and a hourly backup starts. Time machine automagically mounts the sparsebundle.You need to leave and put your laptop to sleep, not paying attention to the fact that time machine is working.You move your laptop to work/school and wake it up.The sparsebundle is still mounted, but obviously does not work. Finder and Spotlight grow increasing stuck until you have to reboot your machine. It occurs to you that the image back home was not closed properly and that eventually, this will corrupt your backups!Solution:Install SleepWatcher (I ...
published on Wednesday, the 19. November 2008, macosxhints
Coda 1.6 Sports Scriptable Plug-ins Interface
When it comes to web site development IDEs, Coda is one of the “must have” Mac applications. The premise is simple: one application that handles all aspects of site development and promotion: editing browser code, cleaning up schemas and tables, wielding CSS, managing versioning and promoting changes to staging and production. If you’re stuck on syntax, [...]
published on Thursday, the 13. November 2008, apple-blog
Coda 1.6 Sports Scriptable Plug-ins Interface
When it comes to web site development IDEs, Coda is one of the “must have” Mac applications. The premise is simple: one application that handles all aspects of site development and promotion: editing browser code, cleaning up schemas and tables, wielding CSS, managing versioning and promoting changes to staging and production. If you’re stuck on syntax, [...]
published on Thursday, the 13. November 2008, apple-blog
Jobs speaks during Q4 call, iPhone passes RIM sales
Apple on Tuesday released its third quarter financial results call as a stream on its website, surprising some with the presence of company CEO Steve Jobs, who even stuck around to answer some questions towards the end. Jobs expressed his excitement over a number of accomplishments; most notably that Apple has surpassed RIM in unit sales for the quarter, with over 6.9 million units shipped, versus...
published on Tuesday, the 21. October 2008, macintosh-news-network
10.4: Security Update 2008-06 and Network preferences
After running the latest security update on 10.4.11, I noticed I couldn't change any settings in Network Preferences. Opening up that settings screen would result in a "Your network settings have been changed by another application" window popping up in an endless loop.It turns out the security update makes some changes to the way PPP passwords are stored. Now, instead of being stored in a world-readable file, they're stored in the Keychain. For some reason, the update gets confused with existing PPP passwords and gets stuck in a loop. The easy way out: open Terminal and delete your existing network configuration. (You might want to make a paper backup to ease the task of entering them in again later.) In Terminal, type these commands (press Return after each) ...
published on Wednesday, the 8. October 2008, macosxhints
Modernizing Mail.app: The Problem
When will Apple move Mail.app into the modern world of email management? Even with version 3.5 (included with the latest OS 10.5.5 update), users of the application are stuck with some pretty cryptic email management paradigms. Why are we stuck with email folders? How about those ahem, powerful email threads? Let me elaborate? I use both [...]
published on Thursday, the 2. October 2008, apple-blog
Enable Spotlight indexing in iPhoto 6
For those of you still stuck with iPhoto 6, I discovered how to enable Spotlight to properly index iPhotos -- including keywords, titles and other details. I am not sure if this applies to every iPhoto 6 user, but in my iPhoto 6 application, Apple forgot to tell Spotlight what to look for. Follow these steps to fix this: Open /Applications, Control-click on iPhoto, and select Show Package Contents from the pop-up menu. In the new window that opens, locate the Contents/Info.plist file. Open TextEdit, and drag the Info.plist file onto the TextEdit icon in the Dock to open it. Please make a copy of the file before editing, just in case! At the end of the file, just before </dict></plist>, insert the following code: <key>UTExportedTypeDeclarations<...
published on Wednesday, the 1. October 2008, macosxhints
Fix iPhone's "Apple logo screen of death" with Recovery Mode
A number of users are reporting that, after upgrading to iPhone 2.0.1, their iPhones are stuck in what they refer to as the "Apple logo screen of death." Nary a reboot or connecting to iTunes will yank the device out of its trance. There is, however, an easy fix.Read More...
published on Friday, the 8. August 2008, ars-technica
Enter bookmarklets directly on iPhone
If you're temporarily stuck without your Mac, you can still enter some Javascript bookmarklets directly on your iPhone, with a little trouble: Turn on Settings » Airplane Mode. Launch Safari and tap OK on dismiss the "Turn off Airplane Mode" dialog. Enter your the bookmarklet in the location bar. Dismiss the "Safari can't open the page" dialog. Bookmark the page. Turn off Airplane mode. This works for bookmarklets that set the location property, and perhaps others as well. When Safari aborts the script because it can't open the page, it leaves the bookmarklet in the address field, allowing it to be bookmarked.
published on Tuesday, the 29. July 2008, macosxhints