Archive for July 8th, 2008
Microsoft to Respond to Apple’s ‘Get a Mac’ Ads
News| No Comments »Informationweek reports on comments made by Brad Brooks, Microsoft’s VP of Windows Vista consumer marketing at their annual Worldwide Partner Conference. Brooks admits that they have made mistakes with the Vista launch but that they are ready to cou…
Microsoft to Respond to Apple’s ‘Get a Mac’ Ads
News| No Comments »Informationweek reports on comments made by Brad Brooks, Microsoft’s VP of Windows Vista consumer marketing at their annual Worldwide Partner Conference. Brooks admits that they have made mistakes with the Vista launch but that they are …
Finnish Developer Claims Apple Security Breach
News| No Comments »… blog today claiming Apple responded to a phishing expedition by someone with a yahoo.com email address and turned over Karppinen’s Apple ID, compromising his personal details, .Mac account information and Apple Store profile data. …
Apple Posts Details for iPhone 3G Launch
News| No Comments »Apple has posted guidelines about what to bring and expect at the iPhone 3G launch at Apple Retail stores.
The Apple Retail Store is the perfect place to get your iPhone 3G. When you arrive, a Concierge in an orange shirt will direct …
Apple Canada Leaves iPhone Buyers in the Cold
News| No Comments »Apple retail outlets in Canada will not be selling the iPhone 3G when it makes its global debut on Friday, according to a report at AppleInsider. Speculation has been rampant that Apple Corporate is disgruntled by the PR fiasco created …
iPhone 3G Unboxing Photos [Updated]
News| No Comments »An iPhonePortugal forum user (via Engadget) has posted the first photos of the iPhone 3G being unboxed. It appears the unit is one of the demo units supplied to stores. According to the poster, the internet speed is quite good and the App S…
10.5: Annotate non-PDF (raster) images in Preview
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As is known, one can annotate PDF documents by means of Mac OS X standard Preview application. It turns out that the same functionality is available for raster images also, but for some reason, it’s hidden by developers.
Open your picture in Preview, then select View » Customize Toolbar. Drag the Annotate tool to your toolbar. Then just choose the type of annotation you want to make from the newly-created toolbar element, and use the mouse to add it to your picture. You can also use following modifiers:
- Press the ‘+’ or ‘-’ keys to increase or decrease line thickness.
- Choose Tools » Show Colors and use the color wheel to change the color of the selected object (including notes).
- Choose Tools » Show Fonts and use the fonts panel to change the text note font.
This functionality could be useful when commenting screenshots.
[robg …
10.5: Reorder Login Items via drag and drop
News| No Comments »Here is a way to re-order the login items in your user’s Accounts System Preferences panel. (Whether this is actually useful, as those items now load asynchronously, is another question entirely.)
Click and hold on a login item, and drag the item a little bit down and/or right. Notice that a dark line will appear at the bottom of the list of items in the login panel. Release the mouse button, and that item will be moved to the bottom of the list. Not as convenient as “drop to the location of your choice,” of course, but with a modicum of planning, you can re-order your list this way.
[robg adds: As noted, login items now load many-at-a-time, so I’m not sure reordering them makes any difference, other than possibly making them easier to find in the list.]
10.5: Avoid syslogd CPU usage when using AppleScript
News| No Comments »Since the release of 10.5, I’ve seen that the execution of AppleScripts triggers heavy activity of syslogd, basically causing it to take over the CPU. I’ve found that by killing the syslogd process (which will automatically restart) and removing the asl.db file from the /var/log directory, I can at least temporarily solve the problem.
Here’s a two-line AppleScript to do just that:
do shell script “sudo rm /var/log/asl.db” with administrator privileges
Run that, and CPU usage by syslogd should drop to normal levels again, at least for a while.
[robg adds: …
Apple Mac Market Share Grows by 32%
News| No Comments »Net Applications reports that Apple’s OS market share increased by nearly 1/3 in the last year: up to 7.94% vs 6.03% a year ago. Vista and Linux also increased their share while Windows XP and Win2000 both dropped. …
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