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Rumour Roundup: the Apple Tablet
January 16, 2010 - 7:25 pm
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A cool mockup/rumour guide about the alledged Apple Tablet:
Syncing my iPhone with Snow Leopard Server with Address Book — Not!
December 13, 2009 - 11:50 am
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I have some contacts I wanted to share with other people so I figured let’s put them into Address Book Server on my Snow Leopard Server. I moved the group on to the server and everything was great. Contacts show up in Address Book on my macbook. I synch my iPhone as usual. [...]
Visualizing disk usage (Mac OS X)
December 12, 2009 - 5:04 pm
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I downloaded GrandPerspective to visualize disk usage on my laptop. It uses the tree visualization algorithm to show the directory hierarchy and the size of the hierarchy.
Each “bump” represents a file with the area reflecting the relatives size. As you move around, a series of nested rectangles are highlighted. Each highlighted rectangle [...]
Xcode: notes
November 29, 2009 - 5:19 pm
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To reset Xcode to the default settings:
$ defaults delete com.apple.Xcode $ rm -rf ~/Library/Application\ Support/Xcode
First, I dislike having a lot of popup windows so I set the layout to “All-In-One” to keep most things within a single window:
And my usual indentation style:
I like having the files autosaved on build: =
Suse 11.1, NFS, exportfs
March 3, 2009 - 4:01 pm
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I tried to mount an NFS volume on my MacBook at home and it was failing. I hadn’t accesed my NFS in a month since I updated to OpenSuse 11.1 or changed some network parameters. Checking the logs on the server (/var/log/messages) showed this error:
mount request from unknown host
but the IP address seemed good. [...]
SproutCore
January 1, 2009 - 10:53 am
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I’d looked into SproutCore and sort of liked the idea. I see Apple is doing more with it — the gallery of MobileMe looks pretty cool. Here’s an interesting video (jump to the 20min point and listen for about 20min) that argues why we should move more business logic to the browser and use [...]
Gmail, Apple Mail, and IMAP
December 26, 2008 - 10:20 am
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I’d noticed my Apple Mail wasn’t always getting new messages in a timely manner. My iPhone would frequently get it before Mail!
Setup gmail, apple mail account as per google’s suggestions These imap settings from google combine how gmail works with Apple’s mail. Read the extra details and the settings make sense. It took 25 minutes [...]
Mac OS X (10.5), NFS, and Linux
December 11, 2008 - 2:11 pm
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I got around to getting my MacBook to mount an NFS filesystem from my Linux server. There’s a nice set of instructions on using the Directory Utility to do so. The problem stumping me was:
kernel: nfsd: request from insecure port (10.0.1.197:57367)!
And the bit of magic that eluded me before was adding the “-P” [...]
Mac OS X hints
July 12, 2008 - 2:27 pm
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Ran across this nice hint to make it so the Unix path shows in the title of Finder windows: defaults write com.apple.finder _FXShowPosixPathInTitle -bool YES
Courtesy of a http://www.itbusiness.ca