Entries from mistersquid: a digital fiction tagged with 'Apple'
Rollback Safari 5.1 on Mac OS X
For the last month I’ve been working on a script to allow me to import animated GIFs into Yojimbo, which script incorporates a few of the concepts I used for Add Bookmark to Yojimbo and Yojimbo Bookmark Collection From...
Problems with Snow Leopard Finder File Sizes
With Snow Leopard, Finder started reporting file sizes in base-10 rather than base-2. This means that when 10.6 users install a 500 GB hard drive, Finder will report that there are 500 GB available on the drive. The practical...
A Late-Summer Afternoon With Boot Camp
Despite having done so much work on my new computer late this morning I found myself inventing more things for myself to do. I started looking over the 79 gigabytes of data (400,000 items) I had transferred from DVD...
Don’t Say I Never Gave You Nothin’
One day before my 40th birthday, I posted a ringtone based Honeycut’s Exodus Honey (the score for Leopard’s Intro video). I’ve gotten many seconds of ringing pleasure from that ringtone, but since then I’ve been bothered by the everyone-or-no one...
No Ubiquitous Mobile Computing for You
Apparently, iPhone applications will only allowed to run one at a time and never in the background. Whenever a user leaves an application to answer the phone or to open a new application, the last application has to quit.1While this...
Leopard is Incomplete
I lived with Leopard as my only operating system during 28 October - 8 December 2007. Yesterday, I spent a few hours reverting the data on which Apple's Mail and iCal depend into formats suitable for Mac OS X v....
Gobble Gobble
This is a major security vulnerability with Apple's Mail.app in Leopard. The upshot is that attachments opened in Mail.app will execute arbitrary code without warning. (via)The really shameful part of this bug is not that it resembles vulnerabilities in another...
A Leopard Ringtone for iPhone
John Siracusa has an in-depth review of Mac OS X 10.5.1 I was holding off upgrading to Leopard until I read that 10.5 significantly improves the performance of older machines. Apple is legendary for OS rollouts that are faster than...
Chump Change
In June, they were calling it the God Phone. On Thursday, it was the Chump Phone. — "iPhone Owners Crying Foul Over Price Cut"Katie Hafner and Brad Stone The first two sentences of Katie Hafner and Brad Stone's "iPhone...
Main Means of Interface
Before I begin, I hope you will forgive me for being so short of hyperlink references for this entry. I'm in the middle of an article and I can't psychologically justify the effort it would require to hunt down those...
Symbolic Links in the GUI via AppleScript, PLUS
Members of the MacOSXHints community have commented and provided some improvements to my original code and the editor of MacOSXHints.com, Rob Griffiths, has posted a brief webography of related scripts and utilities in the editor’s comments of my hint submission.First,...
Make Symbolic LInks in the Finder Using AppleScript
As much time as I spend “under the hood” (as opposed to in the ’hood) in OS X, I’m surprised I haven’t encountered this problem before, which is: aliases made in the finder (with Command-L) are not navigable from the...
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