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CNet reports (via iPhoneAlley) that Apple is poised to launch the first of the 3rd party iPhone applications at WWDC on Monday.

A source at a software company that has been working on a native iPhone application tells us the company …

The following Terminal command will revert the Help Viewer window to its “not always floating” 10.4 behavior:

defaults write com.apple.helpviewer NormalWindow -bool true

Additionally, execute the following (bash) commands as an administrator in Terminal to have access to the application via Command-Tab or its Dock icon:

i=/System/Library/CoreServices/Help Viewer.app/Contents/Info.plist
sudo defaults write "${i%.plist}" LSUIElement 0
sudo chmod 644 "$i"

Sources:

• Non-floating window command from Ars OpenForum.
• Command-Tab and Dock icon from macosxhints.

[robg adds: This hint makes the second half of…

This is a tutorial on how to automatically mount your FireWire drive to a custom mount point on OS X 10.5 Leopard. Variants will probably work with USB 2.0 drives, and internal SATA drives, and probably for IDE drives for G4 or G5 Macs. For this, you will need a little familiarity with the UNIX side of OS X, and more specifically, with the Terminal application. You will also need to know how to use vi, I think (though there’s a very brief primer included in this hint). If that is beyond you, then you probably shouldn’t be reading this.

1. Connect your FireWire drive and then log in to your favorite account to mount the FireWire drive.
2. Get the UUID of the drive in Terminal; MyFWDrive should be replaced with the name of your FireWire drive: diskutil info /Volumes/MyFWDrive. This command is going to spew out a lot of info, but the stuff you want is …

   

   

I use my OS X Leopard Server with an EyeTV to do all of my recording, with the machine running 24/7. EyeTV on the Server is configured to store all recordings in the EyeTV Archive sitting on a network-attached storage (NAS) device. My idea was to do the (time-consuming) editing and exporting from time to time on another workstation on my network, so I set up EyeTV on that workstation to point to the same EyeTV Archive on the NAS, which gave me full control over the recorded movies. I had to fiddle around a little bit to bypass the tuner configuration, because I don’t want to record any movies from that workstation. Everything was fine; editing the movies over the network is not a problem at all.

Things turned weird after I noticed that my workstation somehow cached the information about scheduled recordings and woke up my Mac in the middle of the night … sometimes I even found my workstation idling with login screen after a vacation weekend — not so great. I tried to del…

Section: Apple News, Software + Apps, Mac + Computers, Software, Operating Systems, OS-X, Windows According to NetApplications, Mac OS X and Safari are continuing their upward climb on the market share ladder. …

Section: Apple, Apple News, Retail & Apple Store, Software + Apps, Games, Third-Party, iPhone + Communications, iPhone, iPhone SDK & Apps What happened? Four teens in Palo Alto have been officially banned from all Apple Stores. …

Section: Apple, Apple News, Retail & Apple Store, iPod + iTunes, iPod touch, iPod Family, iPhone + Communications, iPhone SDK & Apps On June 3rd, Apple is expected to announce its largest Back To School promo to date. …

Section: Apple, Apple News, Retail & Apple Store, Rumors, Conferences Over the years, Apple has been making less and less of an appearance at the annual Apple Expo in Paris, France. This year, reports claim that Apple is ditching the …

Apple has officially launched the Back to School promo for 2008.

If you’re a student, faculty, or staff member and you buy a Mac before September 15, you can get a free iPod touch or iPod nano. After all, isn’t college about …

Today, a rumor about a 22% thinner 3G iPhone with GPS priced at $200 hit the Mac web. In looking back, however, this is not the first time we’ve heard this exact set of specifications. On April 29th, Scott Mortiz first reported on the possibility …