Archive for August 8th, 2008
Over 100 Bug Fixes Baked into Apple's Mac OS
News| No Comments »For the second time in as many weeks, Apple has handed developers a new pre-release build of an upcoming maintenance and security release for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard and asked that they spend the weekend testing the software. More…
Vista security gutted by new web exploit
News| No Comments »Many of the security measures Microsoft has implemented and touted for Windows Vista have been compromised through a single exploit, a presentation made at this week’s Black Hat hacking conference claims. …
AMD kicks off FirePro line of workstation graphics
News| No Comments »… appears in September and carries a $599 price for its more advanced features. AMD publicly lists support for Linux and Windows systems but is known to be promoting the OpenCL standard for on-GPU general computing proposed by Apple. …
NetShare Unlikely to Return to U.S. App Store
News| No Comments »Despite some early assurances, it appears that Nullriver’s NetShare application may not return to the U.S. App Store at all. NetShare was an iPhone application that appeared briefly in the iTunes App Store before its removal. The application allow…
ZFS (and Snow Leopard) to Speed up Solid State Drive Performance?
News| No Comments »Infoworld reports (via MacsimumNews) that Samsung has been working with developers to boost solid state drive (SSD) performance in operating systems. Samsung announced Wednesday that it has been in talks with Microsoft to boost performance in Window…
10.5: A possible fix for an iChat ‘Camera in use’ error
News| No Comments »With an Intel iMac running Leopard, I kept getting an error that the built-in iSight was in use. To fix this problem, I now do this from Terminal as an admin user, and I can again use the camera:
$ sudo killall VDCAssistantI do not even have to restart iChat for the fix to take effect. The way I deduced this is that I ran sudo lsof | less -i, searched for usb, and found this VDCAssistant process using some VDC (whatever that is) library that the QuickTime component of iChat was using, too. So I decided to kill that process.
The system respawns the VDCAssistant process, but after that, the iSight camera can be used again in iChat — at least until it suddenly becomes unusable again, for no particular reason I can determine.
Virtualize Mac OS X Client on VMware Fusion
News| No Comments »VMWare Fusion 2.0 beta2 supports virtualizing Mac OS X Server as a guest OS. If you try to install a Leopard Client guest, however, you get an error: “The guest operating system is not Mac OS X Server.” However, if you create an ISO/CDR image from your Leopard install DVD, mount it, then do this in Terminal…
After running that command, unmount the image. You can now use that image to install Leopard Client into VMware Fusion with no complaints. After you install, reboot VMware Fusion from the install DVD ISO again, launch Terminal, and run this command:
Completely uninstall PhoneView
News| No Comments »The procedure outlined on Ecamm Network’s website for uninstalling PhoneView is not necessarily complete. The Ecamm website indicates “to uninstall PhoneView, simply drag the PhoneView icon to the Trash icon on your dock.” However, by default PhoneView will enable an option in its preferences to “launch PhoneView when iPhone is Attached.” The effect of this option is to create an entry in the Login Items tab, which can be found in Accounts section of System Preferences.
If you just trash PhoneView Demo.app, the entry in the Login Items tab is NOT removed. Unfortunately, that means that every time you login from now on, the PhoneViewHelper.app will run. The best way to avoid this situation is to be sure to uncheck the box ‘Launch PhoneView when iPhone is Attached’ in PhoneView’s preferences before trashing PhoneView Demo.app.
If you happen to delete PhoneView Demo.app without unchecking the box, then you can cleanup in one of two …
How to minimize iPhone data traffic using MobileMe
News| No Comments »Here are my conclusions so far based on a series of packet sniffing experiments to understand how much data is used by the iPhone.
The most conservative data use sync options are to turn the master “push” switch off, and to set the fetch settings to manual. When that happens, calendars and contacts seem trigger an immediate sync when new items are added. Otherwise, there is no apparent periodic traffic unless you trigger a manual sync (done by entering the application itself.)
You can usually trigger a manual sync by entering the application whose data you want to sync. With the conservative settings, exiting and entering an application (contacts, calendar, etc) seems to remind the iPhone to check for new data from MobileMe. If the phone hasn’t recently checked for a few minutes, over the next 10 to 15 seconds, the phone will reach out over the network and poll fo…
Published Blacklist Blocks Core Location Only?
News| No Comments »DaringFireball.net clarifies that the published blacklist url likely only blocks malicious apps from accessing the iPhone’s Core Location functions. Core Location allows applications to detect the user’s location through GPS and Wi-Fi triangulation….
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