May
31
Upgraded to 10.5.3
May 31, 2008 | 1 Comment
Perfect installation, after a lot many hiccups. I am happy to report I am on 10.5.3 with everything working. This update seems to have solved my problem of choppiness in Spaces and Expose. Being an ardent Spaces user this was a bone of contention, and made me cringe each time I loaded them up. Well, [...]
May
28
Firefox 3 RC1 - ‘Awesomeness’ redefined
May 28, 2008 | 1 Comment
Let me say this at the very onset - I was never a Firefox fanboi. I really depended upon IE for my development/browsing needs - on Windows of course. Joining my current organization, I got weaned away from my dependence on IE, and rediscovered Firefox after a gap of nearly 3 years. And so it [...]
May
26
GFXUtil FTW!
May 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment
I can report unequivocally the success of the GFXString hack for com.apple.Boot.plist! I followed an excellent tutorial I found on the Interwebs (can link if so requested), that outlined how to extract the Hex string for my GFX card. I did follow the instructions, plug it in my plist and repaired permissions, and voila, after [...]
May
25
Dashcode & Widget development
May 25, 2008 | 3 Comments
A languorous Sunday is fodder for the developer within. Today I decided to give the much touted (and often brick-batted) Dashcode Widget development app a whirl. Dashcode can be downloaded as a part of the Xcode developers toolset from the ADC member website. The whole package is around 1.1 GB.
Dashcode offers a very simple [...]
May
24
Feed aggregator for OS X - NewsFire
May 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment
I have been trying of late to replace Firefox and/or Mail.app as my feed aggregators, with little luck. So desperate was I, that I pretty much resolved to program one myself. But before I could start, I decided to give it one more shot & search the interwebs a bit more. My luck indeed - [...]
