Category: Mac

Upgraded my Treo 650 firmware to 1.20

Referring to the nice guide at Treonauts, I finally upgraded my Treo 650's firmware to the 1.20 firmware for unlocked GSM devices. As is typical with Treo firmware upgrades, it was frightening and anything but uneventful. I had...

Mac

GnuCash on OS X/Expense pie chart

I just installed GnuCash on my PowerBook today (using Fink). So far I'm liking it more than I thought I would. It's not quite as sexy as Quicken and some things seem a bit harder to do, but there's also a certain simplicity to it...

Mac

A workaround for Cisco VPN Client (Mac OS X) “Error 51”

The Cisco VPN client 4.7.00 (0510) mostly works for me on OS X 10.4.4, but I get "Error 51" sporadically and I used to have to reboot to stop it, but now I took a tip that I found on VersionTracker and did a slight tweak to the...

Mac

Cisco VPN with MacIntel (Universal binary) support

I see from VersionTracker that Cisco VPN Client 4.9.00.0050 is a universal binary supporting the new Intel Macs. That's one less barrier to going MacIntel.

Mac

List of Mac OS X keyboard shortcuts

Here's a really comprehensive list of Mac OS X keyboard shortcuts.

Mac

Created a tsocks fink package

I previously posted about how to build tsocks on Mac OS X. Leveraging that work, I created my first Fink package, a package for tsocks. It's in the package submission queue waiting for the Fink team to review it. In the meantime,...

MacProgramming

Building tsocks on Mac OS X

I recently told you about a cool piece of software called tsocks which allows non-SOCKS-aware applications to use SOCKS by using LD_PRELOAD to intercept their socket calls and route them through a SOCKS server. Installing on...