exerpts from install.log (“-total-” is the time for a complete OS X Lion (10.7) upgrade)… HDD macbook aluminum (late2008) 2.0 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo 160GB HDD (Toshiba MK1653GSX, >90GB free space) Operation Elapsed time —————————– script 0.00 seconds os 0.04 seconds crsp 596.19 seconds reap 1867.02 seconds presize 235.28 seconds disk 626.93 seconds zero [...]
wtf?! ever noticed, that apple slows down their macbooks and macbook pros nowadays if you remove the battery? “If the battery is removed from a MacBook or MacBook Pro, the computer will automatically reduce the processor speed. This prevents the computer from shutting down if it demands more power than the A/C adaptor alone can [...]
As more and more people are switching, I’m almost constantly asked: “which applications do I need (should I install) on Mac OS X?” To make a long answer short: you won’t need a great number, as the applications delivered with your Mac already satify most of everybody’s everday needs. Here’s a list of apps I [...]
attention, attention! 3 video post! it aired already last november but i’ve just seen it for the first time: our favourite yellow comic family running wild in the mapple store! insanely great stuff! one more thing:
omfg. caution: rant. ok, sure, i like macs. and this actually holds true for a lot of apple products. sometimes i’m even tempted to say i love them. but after using “ibm compatible PCs” and their predecessors for more than a decade before getting my first apple computer, this is not something religious but just [...]
Export more old and irrelevant posts like this in the future. They are just a kind of personal reminder for myself, when I’ll have to setup a Mac from scratch the next time. http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20080420211034137
just a reminder for the next os x installation: RCDefaultApp 2.0.1
if quicksilver will really die some day in the future, this might become an alternative: http://code.google.com/p/qsb-mac/ read more on lifehacker
hmpf. the first new “feature” i noticed after firing up itunes 8 and checking the grid view for 5 sec. was the lack of the “genre in browser” setting for list view in the preferences. and as there’s nothing to set up anymore in this regard, itunes simply decides to silently turn it on for [...]
Exactly since 60mins. If there’s an application the binary punks both love to death than it surely has to be this little beast. Get it while it’s fresh…
defaults write com.apple.dock no-glass -boolean YES; killall Dock ’nuff said
try Seashore, which is a stripped down gimp with a native os x interface (i.e. no x11!).
the website claims: “RSS and Atom without the hassle – Shrook is a next-generation news reader that is not only easy to use, but offers advanced features not available to Mac users anywhere else. It supports all versions of RSS and Atom. Oh, and it’s free.” well, it still has to prove, but after using [...]
until yesterday there has been a feature i was missing soooo often in os x: the ability to mount a directory on a remote host via ssh. i searched a lot on the net. a real lot. as i knew fuse on linux, i couldn’t believe there was a mac port of it. but definitely [...]
… or something like that. guillotine not tested yet by the binary labs, but it seems to offer pretty similar launching feautres. uhm, at least i was told so.
no matter how large your current harddisk is, it is **always** almost full. whenever you need some free space immediately and don’t know for sure where to get it from, you need a tiny little tool, that tells you where all the space on your drive(s) is consumed for. instead of paying fifteen bucks too [...]
amv’s fritz!box is a nice little box, which is quite perfect as the central digital hub for your home (or office, or whatever…). unfortunately it’s missing one feature, which would make it even more useful (or at least more comfortable to use): it’s not possible to create dns record for your lan. of yourse this [...]
yepp, apple always showed some decadence when it came to memory pricing, but today their webshop really let me choke big time: try ordering one of the latest mac pro desktop machines and throw in 16gigabyte of silicone instead of the 1gigabyte “factory default”. price difference? 5.500 euro credits. i repeat: fivethousandfivehundred. that’s the mac [...]
if you’re like me, there’s at least one feature os x is really missing: the ability to switch between arbitrary windows without touching your mouse. cmd-tab can only switch between applications. expos� also doesn’t satisfy my needs. take a look at witch…
my #1 must have tool: Quicksilver/. quicksilver is, what spotlight should be (although spotlight is quite nice already). just go and install it – you will never ever want to miss it again. if you don’t love it from minute one, you didn’t get it. read this fine documentation. you might also wanna read that [...]