Archive for June 18th, 2008
iPhone and App Store Attracting Developers
News| No Comments »MercuryNews reports on how the iPhone and upcoming App Store are attracting many developers to Apple’s mobile platform. Loopt’s cofounder, Sam Altman, describes how he’s seen an excitement amongst mobile developers:
“People who said …
Parallels Virtualization Server for Mac Powers VPS Offering from …
News| No Comments »Parallels announced the hosting implementation of Parallels Server for Mac, a server virtualization solution for Intel-powered Apple Mac systems. Parallels Server for Mac is a powerful and easy-to-use hypervisor solution for server …
Apple gets it when it comes to surveys
News| No Comments »David Alison has an extensive background in online surveys and as a recent switcher to Mac from Windows has had an opportunity to see first hand how Apple surveys their customers. According to his blog post he likes what he sees.
10.5: View PDFs inline in Firefox 3
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This hint is really just a link, but there have been several other hints dealing with PDF plug-ins for Mac browsers — the Adobe plug-in only supports Safari) — and this represents the first real solution for Firefox 3 I have seen.
There is now a Firefox extension named firefox-mac-pdf, available for Firefox 3 under OS 10.5 that utilizes the built-in PDF support in OS X to display PDFs in-browser. In my testing, it appears to work very well. It doesn’t have the nifty fading bezel that the Safari PDF viewer does, but it supports all the same keyboard shortcuts and you get the standard Mac OS PDF contextual menu when you control-click on a displayed PDF.
[robg adds: This plug-in takes care of the only major complaint I had about Firefox; being able to view a PDF inline ins…
Automatically start Xampp at login
News| No Comments »I like xampp a lot, because it’s a complete package. I used to configure the whole thing myself on the Mac, but it took a lot of time. Xampp, on the other hand, is just so easy to configure and install. The biggest problem I had was that Xampp has to be started manually, and this is bad because I use my Mac mini as a demo server to show my work to customers before going live. If there is a power failure and I am not around, the server won’t start. After some head scratching, obfuscated further by reading too much on the net, I found an obvious and simple solution.
All I needed to do was to write this very simple Applescript:
One way to migrate an iTunes collection to another drive
News| No Comments »I use iTunes for not only my extensive music and audio library, but my vast video library as well. The collection had become so large that I needed to copy all the files to a new, larger drive. My troubles began with iTunes unintuitive linking. Library consolidation scared me, in that it would mess up my hierarchal structure. If I reimported my videos, all my meticulous metadata would be lost. Naming the new drive the same as the old worked, but would break the link if anything within the link structure moved or changed due to the inode reference database. In other words, I must reimport from the new drive (and thus lose all my metadata).
After days of experimenting, I came up with a solution that did the trick. With iTunes off, I copied all my music and video files to the new drive. I also copied my iTunes Library folder to the new drive as well (I prefer keeping all on one drive). I then unmounted my old drive and launched iTunes. Of course, iTunes could not loca…
Parallels Server for Mac Now Available
News| No Comments »Parallels announced today that Parallels Server for Mac is now available.
Apple MAC on Sale Save on MP Apple mac mini.
News| No Comments »Find, Compare and Buy Mac Desktops. Apple MAC on Sale Save on MP Players. Alert me when articles match as these words. News Stories for Apple mac mini. Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu th Nov UTC. The same sources that correctly …
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