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Safari 5.1 Headers
Safari 5.1 is the latest version of Apple’s web browser. People who work on websites should notice a change in the Web Inspector, when compared to Safari 5.0. Previously, clicking on the Resources icon brought up the file size and loading time data, which is useful for diagnosing why a particular web page may be…
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Mac OS X Lion Launchpad
I don’t get Launchpad. It may be a cool feature if I didn’t have the most often used applications already in the Dock. As it is, the feature set seems a bit duplicative. If you have an iPhone or iPad, you should already be familiar with the UI–drag related applications on top of each other…
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Mac OS X Lion Kills Rosetta
Mac OS X Lion marks the end of Rosetta, the transition technology that allowed Intel Macs to run PowerPC applications. After installing Mac OS X, I took a peek at the Applications folder. If you have been migrating all your applications from computer to computer over the years, you may have some Power PC applications,…
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Mac OS X Lion
On one hand, I don’t have to drive to the Apple Store, find parking, pick-up a tiny box with a disk in it, wait in line, check out, and then drive back home. However, waiting 1 hour and 55 minutes to download Mac OS X Lion, which weighs in at 3.74 GB, is far from…
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Quicken, Lion and iBank
Last week, I received an ominous note from Intuit regarding Quicken, a personal finance product that I have been using for long, long time. I can still remember when I first installed Quicken on the Powerbook 100. (The Powerbook is long gone, but for some reason I have kept the Quicken install disks in storage).…
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Macintosh Video Thumbnails
I use Apple’s Grab application to take screenshots. Naturally, when I needed to grab a preview frame from a video, I followed my usual workflow: open video, pause video, select frame, grab video window, copy video window, open image editing application, paste, etc. Then, I read this and realized I was doing it all wrong.…
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Negative File Size
I’ve encountered this problem for the first time today. While using Transmit to upload some files, Transmit reported a read error. Transmit then lists the file that I attempted to upload as having a size of -7,686,868,318,640,340,840, if that is possible. The only recent change I made was upgrading to 10.5.4.
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Office 2008 and Office 2007 Compatibility Headache
I don’t know what to think about Microsoft. The Europeans believe that Microsoft is a bad actor that cannot be trusted. When a third-party application encounters compatibility problems with Microsoft software, the Europeans automatically attribute some nefarious monopolist motive to the Redmond behemoth. But, what if Microsoft was just incompetent and not ill-mannered? How else…