Browsing the archives for the Mac category
The Office of Public Works will be streaming the Winter Solstice live from Newgrange. The broadcast will require Windows Media Player, so those of you on a Mac can use the User Agent Plugin for Firefox and Flip4Mac to watch.
The broadcast is available from 08:30 on Sunday 21st.
Edit: Just as I posted this, an article [...]
The Function Keys F3 – F9 in Mac OS X gives you access to the various Exposé “views”. For example, pressing F3 on my MacBook shows all open application windows. (Depending on your Mac, the function keys may be mapped differently. Check System Preferences – Exposé & Spaces for a full list.)
While trying to figure [...]
It’s been a tiring couple of weeks. First there was moving house, then there was my MacBook problems, and then RAG week came along. It’s just been one stressful event after another.
I’m still not fully unpacked, but for various reasons out of my control, it looks like I’ll have to move again in the next [...]
After a bit of work, I’ve managed to get my MacBook up and running. It’s not what you’d call “portable” any more, but it does work. The problem seems to be that keyboard is damaged, and it’s shorting out the powerboard. Because of this, the adaptor won’t power the mainboard or charge the battery.
With the [...]
Steve Jobs has made his keynote speech at MacWorld and the blogosphere is alive with the news of the MacBook Air, updated iTunes and iPhone software, but personally I think the most interesting announcement was that of the new Time Capsule.
Time Capsule is an Airport wireless router with an inbuilt 500GB or 1TB hard-drive. It’s [...]
According to a couple of different mac rumour sites, Apple released the latest update to Leopard – 10.5.2 – to developers last month. This update weighs in at a hefty 350MB and includes over 70 fixes. With SMB and Finder and being mentioned as getting updates, lets hope that my network drive problems are at [...]
I’ve posted a few times about the problems I’ve had connecting to a network drive using Leopard. Previously I posted about how Leopard was able to connect to a network drive, but wouldn’t show the contents of the shared folder. After a lot of testing, and a bit of luck, I followed that up with [...]
While I was playing around with the Keyboard Shortcuts for the previous post, I noticed that there’s a shortcut for adjusting the contrast on my MacBook. I’ve been looking for a way to do this for ages, and it turns out that it’s possible to do this with a shortcut, albeit, not a very obvious [...]
One of the things that has annoyed me about Mac OS is the behaviour of the Tab key. When presented with a dialog box with multiple buttons, pressing the Tab key will not allow you to shift focus from one button to the next. Thankfully this default behaviour can be changed.
Figure 1: Dialog box with [...]
When troubleshooting your Mac, it helps if you can log in as a different user. Instead of creating a new user, you can enable Root. Here’s how:
Open Finder,
Browse to Applications -> Utilities,
Open Directory Utility,
Click the lock to make changes,
Enter your password when prompted,
From the Taskbar go to Edit -> Enable Root User,
Enter a new password [...]
