Running late today after a series of bad storms here last night but have posted a page of replies to yesterday's post with Feedback on CPU Upgraded Macs with OS X Leopard. (As of this morning there were 18 replies, most positive.)

Phil wrote with a link to an Hitachi Press release on a new 320GB/7200rpm Travelstar 7K320 notebook drive (9.5mm high) they say has 12% higher performance and 22% lower power consumption than the previous model. According to a Register article yesterday the drive will s...

Alternatives, preventive measures.

Faulty wiring or power supplies could be to blame.

After reading this hint on macosxhints about how to create an audio file from text, I figured the process could probably be streamlined a bit. So, I created a Service (that appears in the Services menu) that operates on selected text. Select the plain text in your sourc...

I use a small utility called Witch to switch between open windows in applications via Option-Tab, instead of using the built-in Command-Tab, which just switches between applications. I recently realized that, when Dashboard is active (F12), you can use Witch (Option-Tab...

I'm using a D-Link DWL-G122 in versions C1 (and own a version B1, a D-Link DWL-122, a Linksys@Home 54g USB, and a Belkin F5D6050 USB -- insert sarcasm here), and have worked with (too) many similar Ralink or Prism-based USB wi-fi adapters on OS X over the last four year...

As part of my job, I edit large Word documents, usually created by Windows users. These documents include pictures, comments, tracked changes, and so on. Word 2008 seems to hate them -- it crashes more than a drunken toddler driving a Ferrari. Over time, however, I've d...

Roxio today released Crunch, a software application for quickly and easily converting computer-based video entertainment for viewing in the living room through Apple TV.

Microsoft has released the Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac 11.3.5 Update.

Elgato today announced the release of EyeTV 3.0.2, an update to their TV recording software for Mac OS X.

Antivirus software proves problematic again.

Generally occurs on wake-from-sleep or cold boot.

See post for info, list of new features and bug fixes.

Bad news for cloned backups.

See post for details/models/pricing and software bundle. Also available as a 0GB Enclosure kit for adding your own hard drive.

After seeing an article today from Computerworld titled Leopard at six months: Does it live up to the early hype? and getting this mail from a CPU Upgraded G4 tower owner (happily running OS X Tiger) considering upgrading to Leopard I thought I'd ask for feedback from r...

With family, friends, and coworkers scattered around the country and the world, iChat is one of my most-used applications. Given that a lot of important conversations flow through it, I've archived my iChat logs for years using the "Automatically save chat transcripts" ...

If you're developing a non-trivial bookmarklet you may be able to speed up your edit cycle by having an applescript which executes the javascript in your browser, like this:tell application "Safari" activate do JavaScript " // Of course your bookmarklet code goes h...

If you are like me and love using Safari as the default browser and also subscribe to Sprint's Family Locator service, you may have to switch to Firefox in order to access their website.Not the case anymore. You must first enable the Develop menu in Safari, which you ca...

Plasq today announced the release of Comic Life Magiq 1.0 for Mac OS X.

See posts for models/pricing (up to 500GB) and software bundles. Enclosure kits (add your own drive) also available from $29.95.

DNS problems may be to blame.

Time Machine keeps on slippin', slippin'....

This sounds too simple for a hint, but I haven't heard of it before, and couldn't find a reference for it on the web (and I discovered this completely by accident). By Pressing Option-Tab in the Finder (in List or Icon view windows), you can jump alphabetically through ...

According to man cal, there's also an ncal command with extra options, such as displaying week numbers via the -w flag. But no ncal is installed in OS X. A little experiment reveals, however, that it's one and the same program -- it apparently behaves differently when n...

As any Mac user who deals with Microsoft Exchange invites will tell you, Exchange screws up the time zone information. What this means is that you will likely miss your meetings. Not a good thing. I've adapted an AppleScript from an older hint to correct this problem. T...

See page for first user feedback, links to driver and M-Audio's release notes with known issues.

Updating a graphics card driver may do the trick.

A simple fix.

Infoworld has a multi-page review of the Harpertown CPU based Xserve titled Apple's little big iron, rating it 8.4 out of ten overall and saying "The eight-core Harpertown Xserve breaks the PC server mold with big iron-class reliability, availability, and serviceability...

See post for details on Elite AL pro models, pricing and software bundle. Also price cuts today on 4GB (2x2GB modules) kits for 2008 Mac Pros and 4GB (2x2GB) kits for the new 2008 Penryn iMacs.

Updated with link to a Mirror of IXmicro's drivers for their video cards, game rocket and IXTV.

You can use Safari 3.x to open Text files (they must have .rtf or .txt extensions), and then use Safari's Find feature to locate what you're looking for in the file. The advantage is that you get Safari's wonderful new 'find' UI instead of just plain old search results ...

In my job, I jump between browsers quite regularly, usually Firefox, Camino, and Safari. As we've covered here before in various hints, you can actually run a "future" version of Safari by downloading and installing WebKit, which is a special version of Safari using new...

This is a hint to avoid a potential security issue caused by a standard system function (or feature). If you connect to a service on a remote server, you will be asked for your login and password. If you say No to the 'Remember this password in my keychain' dialog, you ...

If you are a user of Google docs (and other such Google apps) and you prefer Safari as your default browser, you will know that lots of features are lost because Safari is not a supported browser. Firefox, however, is fully supported. If you enable the Develop menu i...

VMware has announced the availability of the VMWare Fusion 2.0 Beta, a new version of their popular virtualization software for Intel-based Macs.

May switch default Java version, despite Apple's documentation.

A few effective fixes.

(from site sponsor OWC) "Updated OWC Garage Sale/Clearance page including OEM Apple RAM including 1GB PC5300 DDR2 SO-DIMM 667MHz modules for $16.85, 1GB/2GB Mac Pro FB-DIMM Kits for $52.50 / $92.75, FireWire+USB2 Combo Cards from $35.75, IDE/ATA and SATA Hard Drive Cont...

Also, some notable improvements for those who can successfully install the update.

MacFUSE is a great addition to the OS X system. One common usage of a FUSE is to mount a remote directory as a local volume, for easy access, and with MacFUSE in conjunction with sshfs (available at the same link), this is really easy to do.In my situation, however, the...

As discussed in this prior hint, I have hundreds of WordPerfect for Windows files that I periodically need to access. Unfortunately, the existing Spotlight importer for WordPerfect only imports WordPerfect for Mac files. Devon Technologies' free EasyFind can be easily c...

You can directly drag an application from the Quicksilver pane onto the AppZapper window to uninstall the program. This is easier than opening the Applications folder and then dragging and dropping over to AppZapper (or any such similar program).

See post for info/models/pricing on up to 1TB models w/software bundles an enclosure kits.

The macosxhints Rating:[Score: 8 out of 10] Developer: Pixelmator Team Ltd. Price: $59.00 [free demo available]Pixelmator is a layer-based image editing program that takes full advantage of OS X's features, opens tons of file formats (including Photoshop files), and...

NiN's website has a free download of The Slip album...

Percy from SnapStream has posted a nice article about turning the Mac mini into a Windows-based PVR.

Check which version of Java you are using.