I have a machine running Mac OS X (currently Leopard 10.5.2) and another running Ubuntu (currently Hardy Heron 8.04) and have been striving to get these two machines to interact more harmoniously on my local are network (LAN). In particular, I’ve been trying to get my Ubuntu machine to act more like a Mac in [...]
Five Guides on How to Integrate Ubuntu into a Mac OS X Network
By Sam Davis on Apr 30, 2008 within Featured, Guides, Linux, Ubuntu | Comments
Widescreen Wallpapers: Ubuntu Hardy Heron (8.04) Meets Mac OS X Leopard (10.5)
By Sam Davis on Apr 29, 2008 within Apple, Images, Ubuntu | Comments
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have computers running both Mac OS X Leopard (10.5) and Ubuntu Hardy Heron (8.04). Both of these operating systems have very attractive default desktop backgrounds. Leopard has the purple nebulous looking star field (below right) and Hardy has the modern artsy looking heron (below left). However, these very different looking wallpapers make my machines [...]
Ideal Settings for Apple Mail and Gmail IMAP Syncing [Mac Guide]
By Franklin Davis on Apr 22, 2008 within Apple, Featured, Google, Guides | Comments
I am a BIG fan of Google’s Gmail service. It has the best webmail interface by far and offers nearly unlimited storage. Now that Gmail allows IMAP access I am using it as my primary email service via Apple’s Mail.app. I’ve configured Gmail to check all of my other email [...]
A Few Tricks for Getting the Most from the Safari (3) Web Browser [Mac Tip]
By Franklin Davis on Mar 11, 2008 within Apple, Tips | Comments
I recently gave up on Firefox 2 in lieu of Leopard because of stability and memory issues. Safari 3 was a huge leap forward from Safari 2 so I decided to give it a try. Overall, I’ve found that I’m enjoying using Safari as my main browser. The only part of Firefox that [...]
2007, Apple’s Year to Remember
By Sam Davis on Dec 24, 2007 within Apple, Featured | Comments
Steve Jobs ended 2006 by proclaiming that, “2007 is likely to be one of the most exciting new product years in Appleās history.” Needless to say, he wasn’t just blowing smoke. Apple was on fire in 2007 as new and revolutionary products lured droves of consumers to Apple goods and launched Apple’s market capitalization (it [...]
Is Imitation the Highest Form of Mac OS X Flattery?
By Sam Davis on Dec 14, 2007 within Apple, Coffee Break | Comments
Some of the comments on Franklin’s latest post, titled “A List of Mac Freeware that Leopard has Mauled to Death”, has got me thinking philosophically. The gist of the post is that the increased functionality of Mac OS X Leopard may ultimately make Mac users less likely to use the third-party apps that formally [...]
A List of Mac Freeware that Leopard has Mauled to Death [Mac Freeware, Opinion]
By Franklin Davis on Dec 10, 2007 within Apple, Lists | Comments
When Apple’s new big cat first appeared at the Word Wide Developer’s Conference (WWDC) in August of 2006 and then pounced on the scene in October of 2007 it sent shivers down the spines of some small and large developers in the Mac community. Here I list some of the best Mac freeware [...]
How to Restart Unresponsive or Misbehaving Spaces in Leopard [Mac Tip]
By Franklin Davis on Nov 27, 2007 within Apple, Tips | Comments
I am enjoying Leopard’s Spaces.app quite a bit, especially once I fixed the Finder issue. Most of the time I experience no problems, however, occasionally Spaces starts to misbehave or becomes unresponsive. The most frequent problem I have encountered is that sometimes Spaces will stop switching to the space containing the [...]
Back to the Future! - Change Time Machine Icon to a Delorean [Mac Tip]
By Sam Davis on Nov 20, 2007 within Apple, Tips | Comments
When I think of time machines, images of Marty McFly, Doc Brown and Flux Capacitors come to mind. I suppose these associations were hardwired into my young brain sometime in the vicinity of 1985. So, it was quite natural that I wanted to change the icon for Mac OS X Leopard’s Time Machine application to [...]
Show Full Directory Path in the Finder Window Title [Mac Tip]
By Franklin Davis on Nov 14, 2007 within Apple, Tips | Comments
This is just a quick tip to get Leopard’s Finder window to display the full path to the current directory in the title bar. Essentially this is just the results from a pwd command being constantly displayed in the finder window. While power users will immediately find this very useful even normal users [...]
How to Show the Finder on All Spaces in Leopard [Mac Tip]
By Franklin Davis on Nov 7, 2007 within Apple, Tips | Comments
I absolutely love Leopard’s new Spaces feature, however, the Finder’s default behavior in Spaces drove me slightly crazy. For example, if I wanted to quickly add an attachment to an Email and Finder was open in a different space I would have to either close that Finder window or drag the Finder window to [...]
How to Automatically Accept iChat Messages in Leopard without Chax [Mac Tip]
By Franklin Davis on Nov 2, 2007 within Apple, Tips | Comments
This just a quick tip explaining how you can avoid iChat’s ‘accept chat’ dialog without using the popular Chax extension. Chax is great, however, it is currently only compatible with Leopard’s iChat via an alpha build. Furthermore, many of Chax’s most compelling features have been added to iChat by Apple so I’m not [...]
Ditch Leopard’s 3D Dock via the Command Line [Mac Tip]
By Franklin Davis on Nov 2, 2007 within Apple, Tips | Comments
Do you hate Leopard’s new 3D Dock? If so, you can quickly remove the 3D effect via the command line. Personally I’m slowly getting used to the new Dock but it is a definite example of unnecessary ‘Eye Candy’, so I can understand why some people want to disable the 3D Dock. [...]
How to Sync Mac Address Book via Yahoo without .Mac [Mac Guide]
By Franklin Davis on Nov 1, 2007 within Apple, Tips | Comments
This just a quick tip to explain how to sync your Mac Address Book (Leopard only) via Yahoo without needing a .Mac account. If you don’t have a Yahoo account you’ll need to go here and sign up for one. After you have your Yahoo account ready, proceed to step 1.
