Apple
xmarks install interfering with Office Updates
While re-loading the OS and apps on my iMac at work, I ran into major issues whilst updating MS Office 2008. When running the first update, Office 2008 SP1 (12.1.0) I had no problems, however none of the other updates would run. I kept getting the error “You cannot install Office 2008 Updates on this [...]
FontBook, Spotlight and the mysterious spinning hard drive
Lately I have noticed that when browsing the web my external hard drive would spin up when there seemed no need. I had just given into the mysterious and not concerned myself with this until yesterday.
After a few searches, I turned up a post on Apple’s discussion boards entitled Safari pauses & spins up ext [...]
iTunes Store interface bug?
I noticed something today in the new iTunes Store interface. When you hover over a song in the store you are presented with a nifty play icon that replaces the track number in the album listing. This is quite similar to the iTunes Store interface functionality on the iPhone/iPod Touch OS. Clicking on the play [...]
Opera was installed how?
So this morning I fired up my iMac at work to continue on with editing this PHP form I have been working on. Now I usually use TextMate for my daily editor, since it is very lightweight.
Since I hadn’t actually created a TextMate project file, I just selected all the files and opened them using [...]
Apple TV cares about your FPS
In my process of tranferring my DVD collection to a digital media server I discovered that the Apple TV software is smarter than I thought.
I have been ripping my DVD collection using Handbrake on my Mac and transferring them to a Windows box which is shared out via my internal only network to the Apple [...]
