Thursday, August 21. 2008
Bookmark Chat Rooms in Adium
If you are one of the many (and happy  ) Mac users who make use of the Adium chat client, there is a very simple way to bookmark chat rooms that one visits consistently ( outside of the standard "File -> Join Group Chat" method").You need to modify the toolbar to add the Bookmark icon: Right-Click on any open chat window toolbar and select "Customize Toolbar" Then select any currently open chat room and click on the Bookmark icon - done! |  |
Monday, August 18. 2008
iPhone 2.0.2 Released
| Apple has released iPhone software update 2.0.2. Again, details on what is exactly fixed is not forthcoming from Apple, so the end user must look to user comments in various sites (Engadget, TUAW & MacNN). Some users are reporting snappier performance, better 3G signal, fewer crashes, as well as no more annoying contacts or keyboard lags. I have upgraded my iPhone to the 2.0.2 firmware update, so I'll be back with feedback after a little bit more usage. (just a heads-up, the update is 242MB to download). Update ( 08/22/08 ): Perhaps not too surprisingly, some users are still reporting issues with 3G even after the latest firmware update. |  |
Sunday, August 17. 2008
Some iPhone App Store review sites...
| Thanks to TechCrunch, I found a couple a good iPhone App review sites: AppVee and App Store Apps. AppVee does more in-depth reviews, while the App Store Apps site is more of a review/tricks-n-tips site. Needless to say, I have both of them bookmarked in my del.icio.us account. Update (08/18/08): Also stumbled across this site today: iPhoneAppPodCast - had a decent review of NowLocal, the new iPhone App that I have been involved in. | |
Tuesday, August 12. 2008
iPhone 2.0.1 Released
| Apple has released iPhone software update 2.0.1. Details on what the release fixes are more easily snagged from other sites than from Apple - however, reports trickling in from end users. Unfortunately, the software update does not correct one of my more annoying issues - the excessively long backup times when syncing the iPhone. Too early to tell yet, but the other annoying issue ( intermittent long pauses when accessing the Contacts function ) seems to be improved. In related news, apparently Apple is seeding a third beta of iPhone 2.1 to developers. | |
Friday, August 1. 2008
iTunes 7.7.1 Released
| iTunes 7.7.1 has been released. This version seems to be a maintenance release, with bug fixes that promise more stability. (Sadly it doesn't fix the infernally long iPhone sync times  ) |  |
Thursday, July 31. 2008
Del.icio.us Site Overhaul
| For those users of the del.icio.us online bookmarking tool, you will be happy to know that the site had a complete overhaul, which included adding an additional domain ( Delicious.com ). Other improvements include performance enhancements as well as more search capabilities. I am stil trying to decide if I like the new or old interface better. |  |
Wednesday, July 30. 2008
Twitter Commands
| Ever since I have purchased my 3G iPhone, I have been having way too much fun with the various iPhone apps, especially Facebook and Twitterific. So, in an effort to publish even more worthless information on the internet , here are some Twitter commands. |  |
Friday, June 6. 2008
iStat Menus 1.30 Released
| Version 1.30 of iStat Menus has been released. According to the release notes, there have been quite a few interface changes. One of the (probably) more minor changes is the actual CPU running time (time computer has been up - time computer has been asleep). Another nice enhancement that I noticed is the memory meter now gives you the top five memory consumers in addition to the total memory stats. |  |
Wednesday, June 4. 2008
Eclipse, Leopard and Java....
| As many Mac users know, it has been hard getting Java 1.6 support under Leopard and even harder getting it to be the default JavaVM and even harder to get applications to run with it. One of those applications is the widely used Java IDE Eclipse. Fortunately, after tons of searching, I wandered across this web site with had a workaround for getting Eclipse working with the old Java 1.5 VM while keeping the Java 1.6 VM as the default. Basically, you need to modify the eclipse/Eclipse.app/Contents/Info.plist file and uncomment the following line (to force Eclipse to use the 1.5 JavaVM): /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.5.0/Commands/java |  |
Tuesday, June 3. 2008
Leopard Security Configuration Guide - Free PDF Download
| For those who love to delve into the innards of the Leopard OS, Apple has released the Leopard Security Configuration Guide which is available as a free PDF download. |  |
Friday, May 30. 2008
Leopard 10.5.3 Released
| Apple has released 10.5.3 which is being touted as a major release fixing several stability issues and possibly some needed changes to be able to use the recently released iPhone SDK. According to Google, in 10.5.3, you can now sync your AddressBook with Google Contacts. Update (06/05/08): It sounds like 10.5.4 has been put into the hands of developers if the rumors are to be believed. This next coming release is supposed to fix the CS3 issue that primarily affected to trying to save files on remote servers. Current rumors put the release date the 2nd week in June. |  |
Thursday, May 29. 2008
JAlbum 8.0 Released
| JAlbum, a slideshow generating tool that I have been using since late 2004 has recently released version 8.0. There are quite a few enhancements, including faster and more memory conservative image scaling, which I like, since my JAlbum would previously crash on large albums and much improved dragging and dropping. |  |
Saturday, May 24. 2008
Migrate Adium Chat Logs
| If you are one of the many (and happy ) Mac users who make use of the Adium chat client, you might be happy to know that it is relatively painless to migrate your chat logs from one Mac machine to another Mac machine. You just need to migrate the contents of this directory: ${HOME}/Library/Application Support/Adium 2.0/Users/Default/Logs to your new machine and then bring up Adium and all of your previous chat logs should be available. (Haven't found an easy to migrate chat logs between different chat clients, i.e. Trillian and Adium, but haven't looked that hard yet either ).Incidentally, there are rumors that the Trillian folks have rewritten their IM chat client for the Mac. | |
Monday, May 12. 2008
Transmission 1.20 Released
| For those fans of the popular BitTorrent client, Transmission, there has been a new version released - 1.20. According to the release notes, some of the fixes are better support of multitracker torrents and faster UPnP port mapping upon startup. |  |
Sunday, May 11. 2008
Mac: SuperDuper Backup Tool
| For Mac users, SuperDuper! Backup tool has released version 2.5. Here is also a good intro article on it (and since I took such a long time to get this post up 8-), another good article has appeared comparing three different backup options). |  |
