Entries tagged with 'OS-X'

If, like me, you’re not made of money and are still running a PowerPC Mac, you would have no doubt been a bit disappointed to hear only an Intel version of OpenOffice 3.0 was released to the world.
Well there’s no need to be disappointed anymore, you can get builds from the community team responsible for [...]

This is probably an old one, but I’ve just discovered and think it’s pretty cool.
Open up a terminal on your Mac and copy and paste the following into the terminal and press enter:
osascript -e ’say “oh This is a silly song silly song silly song this is the silliest song ive ever ever heard So [...]

The MySQL Preferences pane that comes with the MySQL download from the MySQL site is broken on Leopard, and has been for quite some time.
It installs and correctly reflects the current status of any running MySQL processes, but the “Start MySQL Server” / “Stop MySQL Server” button doesn’t do anything.
Well, today I finally got [...]

I didn’t know this until I read this post on Lifehacker, but check out the icon OS X Leopard shows for PCs running Windows that you may be browsing from your Mac:

You’ve upgraded to OS X Leopard, played with Time Machine, tweaked things to your heart’s content and now you want to play with something else cool you’ve heard has made it’s way into OS X - ZFS.
Unfortunately, Apple have only bundled read-only support for ZFS to date, but we’ll be changing that.

WARNING: ZFS read-write support [...]

I’ve just upgraded to OS X Leopard, but I made a school boy error - I forgot to ensure all my applications were Leopard compatible BEFORE I did this.
The upgrade went smoothly, however I couldn’t login as myself into the graphical interface. I could login remotely over SSH, but any attempts to login via [...]

I’ve been using iPhoto to manage my pictures ever since I got my Mac Mini. I was quite impressed with it originally, and it seemed to fulfil all my requirements. However, over time my collection of images got bigger and bigger and bigger still, and iPhoto just wasn’t keeping up. Starting iPhoto [...]

Well, I can now proudly say I’ve panicked every OS I’ve ever worked on. Today I suffered my first ever OS X panic today.