Category: Mac
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good bye, Snow Leopard! very welcome, Lion!
Just installing … Update: It started with saying “33 minutes …”, but these 33 minutes do not pass as fast as on my wrist watch. Update: The desktop started with eyecandy: no longer that well-known starfield, but a rather more modest background. Update: In Snow Leopard I had my “desktops” arranged in 4×4 matrix, that’s…
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OS X: how to lock your screen immediately? through “Screen Standby” (if …)
You achieve that through the Screen Standby command resp. shortcut, iff that got set up (within the Security preferences) to Require password.Thanks for pointing me there go to JL.I really love locking my screen instantly, when I leave my desk.
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Mac OS X: Showing and hiding filename extensions
Mac OS X 10.6 Help: Showing and hiding filename extensions
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Rosetta (software) – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Rosetta (software) – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia : Rosetta is a lightweight dynamic translator for Mac OS X distributed by Apple. It enables applications compiled for the PowerPC family of processors to run on Apple systems that use Intel processors. Rosetta is based on Transitive Corporation’s QuickTransit technology,[1] and is a key part of Apple’s strategy…
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MonoMac links .NET to Apple’s GUI – The H Open Source: News and Features
MonoMac links .NET to Apple’s GUI – The H Open Source: News and Features
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.DS_Store – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
.DS_Store – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia From www.greci.cc:By default, MacOS X will create a .DS_Store file in every folder it accesses, while this is ok in OS X it may be annoying for network shares. To prevent the creation of .DS_Store files on network volumes execute this from a Terminal: defaults write com.apple.desktopservices DSDontWriteNetworkStores true
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Mac OS X 10.6.4 (Snow Leopard): the Finder hangs again
I tried to make LibreOffice the default application for a file on a Samba network folder, and Finder hangs – not LibreOffice. I am now going to kill Finder, and I assume during the remainder of the day I also have to restart the entire OS again, which implies restarting almost all applications with all…
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the coming App Store for Mac OS X: the next Apple jail?
First it sounds like the App Store will help the users to have a single point, where to find and update apps for OS X. But then: look what it means on iOS, i.e. the iPhone and the iPad: it means: apps will only find their way to your device through Apple’s “placet”, and finally…