TagsTagsI guess everyone knew this was coming when Steve Jobs had to step down as head of Apple. The sad announcement arrived tonight that Jobs has died at the age of 56.
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Here’s a handy list of Safari 4 Hidden Preferences. To change these preferences, you use the Mac OS X Terminal application, located in: Applications -> Utilities -> Terminal If you’ve never used the Terminal before, here’s an introduction.
After a couple of days of using the public beta of Safari 4, there are three main points of contention interrupting my workflow. 1) I post to LGF primarily by using a Javascript bookmarklet (a bit of Javascript code that works as a bookmark) that pops up a new window containing ...
There’s a treat at the Apple website: Apple Releases Beta of Safari 4. Here’s a direct link to the download page. First geeked-out impressions: the Javascript engine is screaming fast. Pages with a lot of Javascript are much quicker. LGF seems to work just dandy, and I haven’t encountered any rendering problems ...
If at first you don’t succeed, curse a blue streak, erase the hard drive and reinstall Leopard, then use Migration Assistant with a full image backup of the old drive, and transfer the settings on the initial startup of the freshly installed OS instead of creating a throwaway account first. ...
Apple has released the latest version of their Safari web browser, and I’m going to be really spoiled if I use this as my main browser, which I will, because it’s so danged fast. Yes, the Javascript engine in particular is faster than Firefox 3 beta 4. It’s not only faster, ...
Reporting back after two days running the latest Mac OS 10.5.2 (Leopard): very pleased so far. Wireless connections to the Airport base station seem more sturdy, the Time Machine feature is wondrous (takes a while to create the first backup, though), and the new Mail and Safari features are also ...
OK, I may finally be persuaded to use that Leopard OS DVD I bought last year and upgrade my main desktop machine, because it looks like some of the big issues have been addressed with today’s release of OS 10.5.2: Latest Leopard Update Resolves Common Complaints. And also because without Leopard, ...
Here’s an open thread for a Sunday evening, with another LGF thank you to America’s veterans. Since it’s an open thread, here’s my conundrum tonight: I’ve been trying to get up the nerve to install the new Mac OS 10.5 on my main desktop machine. It’s already installed on my laptop ...