Category: Mac

Mac

Possible fix for MacBook [Pro] keyboard unresponsiveness bug

I have a MacBook Pro and the keyboard unresponsiveness bug is pretty annoying. Just noticed that a new update from Apple popped up in the Software Update tool: Crossing my fingers......

MacProgrammingPython

Hacking OS X’s Python dbhash and bsddb modules to work

By default on my Leopard system, the dbhash and bsddb Python modules cannot be loaded. marc@hyperion:~$ python Python 2.5.1 (r251:54863, Oct 5 2007, 21:08:09) [GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Inc. build 5465)] on darwin Type "help",...

HaskellMacProgramming

Darcs for OS X Leopard

I had been trying unsuccessfully for several days to install Darcs via MacPorts and Fink, but both seem to have trouble with the prerequisite GHC on OS X 10.5 (Leopard). However, I did find a very nice installer package for Darcs...

Mac

Leopard X11 update

I was having a problem or two with the new X11.app in Leopard. It turns out that are some new versions of Xquartz that you can install that fix a lot of problems. The instructions, including a handy-dandy shell script that makes...

Mac

Mac OS X Screenshot Secrets

On OS X, taking a screenshot is not as easy as pressing PrtScn (Print Screen). Well it's easy to do, but it's not easy to remember and thus I present these shortcut keys from O'Reilly's Mac OS X Screenshot Secrets: Key...

Mac

MacBook Pro

My new MacBook Pro arrived yesterday. I expected that it was going to come with Leopard pre-installed, but instead it came with Tiger and a Leopard DVD. Perhaps this is better in case there are enough bugs and incompatibilities,...

MacWindows

Recover from a ‘Library is locked’ iTunes error

Ran into this on Nicole's new laptop. The reason was because I had used cygwin rsync to copy over our documents from the old laptop and the iTunes Library.itl file ended up getting marked as read-only. macosxhints.com has this...