PowerBook overtemp
Lately, my PowerBook has become narcoleptic. It goes to sleep even when it's plugged in and I've been using it actively. Pressing a key usually wakes it up right away but not always. I asked about this today on a Mac users'...
Category: Mac
Treo and Mac Conduit Manager crashes: a workaround
For a while I've been getting this Conduit Manager crash when trying to sync my Treo 650 with my PowerBook. This is really annoying, because the Treo gets stuck in the HotSync (pressing "Cancel" doesn't work) and I have to do a...
links for 2006-10-16
Ambrai Smalltalk Ambrai Smalltalk is an implementation of the Smalltalk language and development environment for Mac OS X. They are currently offering free time-limited betas for download (tags: smalltalk programming mac osx...
Quicksilver to Flickr
Quicksilver to Flickr, originally uploaded by msabramo. Why had I not used this before? Quicksilver has a brilliant plugin for uploading files to Flickr....
Mac OS X 10.4.8 update
The OS X 10.4.8 upgrade appeared for me in Software Update this afternoon. Here's the skinny... The 10.4.8 Update is recommended for all users and includes general operating system fixes, as well as specific fixes for the...
Last.fm on OS X
I finally decided to see what this last.fm/scrobbling thing is all about so I downloaded the last.fm 1.0.4 client for Mac OS X. However, it crashed immediately on startup. After a little searching, I found this page, which...
One thing missing in Mac OS X
One thing I miss in Mac OS X - I wish that the right-click context menu in the Finder had commands for creating new documents of various types. Without that feature, you're forced to launch the application and then save to the...