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Mac OS 10.0 turns 3 today. It was launched on March, 24 2001, remember ? Seems ages ago.
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You are probably all aware that your Mac runs daily, weekly and monthly maintenance scripts to check the integrity of your system and clean it up.
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The default map function of the Address Book is a cool trick, but isn’t very useful to users living out of the USA. But there’s a new plugin on the block: Mappy Address Book
A neat Address Book plugin which enables the Address Book to hook into the online Mappy services. You can map an address or route it. Works like a charm. -
Matthew Thomas posted an article on his first 48h hours enduring Mac OS X
“The quality of Apple’s human interface has declined and continues to decline. That other current platforms, both Free and non-Free, continue to be even worse does not make this situation any more satisfying.”
Matthew Thomas is a usability critic and former Mac OS 9 user. Recommended reading – BTW, I agree with most of his points. -
I got bitten by a strange bug yesterday while running Software Update on my Server: a bunch of updates where available, so I accepted to install them and went back to my desktop. After a while, I was ready to click the “restart” button when I noticed that a red exclamation mark was next to all the updates instead of the green checkmark, and a dialog box was displaying the following
“None of the checked updates could be installed. Make sure you have permission to write to /tmp/501/TemporaryItems/com.apple.SoftwareUpdate, then try again.” -
I don’t about you, but fonts problems or font related problems have caused havoc more than once since I permanently switched to Mac OS X back in the 1.1 days.
A MacOSXHint thread points on a very informative document that explains – and clarifies – a lot of potential font issues and how to solve them, where to store them, what format to use, etc. The document is Jaguar (10.2) centered, but a lot of the info still applies to Panther. -
Apple has finally recognised the problem with the iBook’s logic board by publishing an extended exchange program and offering to reimburse previous costs of repair to eligible customers (iBook purchased in the last 3 years). Reuters comments the problem an article “Failing Apple Hardware”.
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The best blogging tool on the block has just final: ecto has reached 1.0.
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The Mac turns 20. Happy Birthday Mac!
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Apple is offering a cool service to generate your own RSS feed based on their new releases. Select your favourite type of music among the 25 genre proposed. The page generates an URL that can be copy & pasted into your favourite news aggregator (such as NetNewsWire e.g.).
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There we are.You can actually have 1 terabyte (1000 Gb) on your desktop.LaCie has just released the Bigger Disk. It offers Firewire 400 (6 or 4 pins a.k.a. iLink), Firewire 800 and USB 1.1/2.0 interface.