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Time Capsule
Great idea, good price, but it won't fit into my network without being redundant. I may still get one depending on the feasibility of a few options (see the end of the linked post).
Revised AppleTV
Great idea, good price, but it won't fit into my network without being redundant. My receiver's 3 HDMI ports are [...]

Macworld 2K8 Predictions

Post them here (and before the keynote starts) if you want to take credit for them.
I don't have any predictions myself, but I will say this: if there's a thin MacBook of some kind at about $1500 to $1700, I may just buy two (especially given Screen Sharing in Leopard). I have a 20% developer [...]

MacBook Air

You know, I still haven't quite adjusted to calling them MacBooks. Though I despise the name less now than before, I still wish the "PowerBook" name lived on and I think "Air" is a pretty hippie-sounding name for a computer, real or imaginary.
With Adium logs showing the product it seems like an even bigger certainty [...]

Numbers Graphing Question

Simple question: is there any way for Numbers to display this data with the data spread out accordingly? The dates and times aren't evenly spaced, but I'd like them to be.
Ideally I'd also like to plot the high and low values (perhaps as a box) and then connect the averages with a line.
So the ideal [...]

Just now I noticed that I'm no longer able to adjust the brightness of my display (a 23" Cinema hooked up to a Radeon X1900 XT). Mac Pro, quad 3.0 GHz, 10.5.1.
When I open the Displays preferences, there's simply no brightness slider. When I press the buttons on my keyboard (F1/F2), nothing happens. When I [...]

Warp through Spaces

Warp allows you to move your mouse to the edge of your screen in order to switch spaces. The default 0.75 seconds seems just about perfect, and I think the app will come in handy those times when I'm not really using the keyboard.
It's also another example of the kind of functionality "power users" wish [...]

This morning I deleted "WebKit" (which I'd renamed "Safari"). I restored a copy of Safari from earlier yesterday morning. I launched it.
Attempts to open a URL from another application or to "Reopen Windows From Last Session" all result in one simple error in the console:
12/20/07 1:09:24 pm Safari[358] *** -[NSCFArray insertObject:atIndex:]: attempt to insert nil
Pfffffft. [...]

I ran SunSpider with Safari 3.0.4 and the latest WebKit nightly. The results in a nutshell? The new JavaScript engine in the WebKit nightly build (Dec.19) is 2.83x as fast as that in Safari 3.0.4.
** TOTAL **: *2.83x as slow* 3021.6ms +/- 0.7% 8554.6ms +/- 0.2% significant
I'm [...]

Today I launched Aperture to do some quick photo picking (you'll notice some new blog header images). The menus were blank. I had an Apple and nothing else. Though I could export (via the keyboard shortcut), none of the popup menus in the export panel even worked.
So I set about figuring out what was going [...]

Since upgrading to Leopard, "Microsoft Sync" crashes like crazy. It doesn't happen every time, but it happens a few times per day. Full crash report in the extended entry (the next time it crashes, anyway).
Everything still seems to sync, but the darn thing just won't stop crashing. I'd prefer not to re-install because that would [...]

Nice. GarageBand 4.1.1 includes a "send Ringtone to iTunes" option. So where can someone download some GarageBand-created ringtones? I'd make my own but I'm a musical retard when it comes to using GarageBand for more than editing podcasts.

Safari Cookie Bug

You know, I forgot to check, but you'd think the Safari Cookie bug that causes your Cookie file to be cleared would have been fixed by now.
Update (2008-02-13): More information is available here. That site believes it's a date coercion issue in JavaScript.

Why does Repair Permissions spit this junk out? Every other person I asked confirms that they see the same things. Is there something wrong? If not, why does repairPermissions tell me about it?
Started verify/repair permissions on disk disk0s2 Peter
Warning: SUID file "usr/libexec/load_hdi" has been modified and will not be repaired
Warning: SUID file "System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/DiskManagement.framework/Versions/A/Resources/DiskManagementTool" has been [...]

leaks Safari

Go ahead, run leaks Safari. I dare you.
[10:01am iacas@Bunny:~] % leaks Safari
Process 318: 909079 nodes malloced for 90364 KB
Process 318: 9329 leaks for 273936 total leaked bytes.
That looks worse than it is (it's in bytes), but nine thousand of them?

Sync: What’s the Problem?

You know, the only annoying thing about having an iPhone is that the Sync server will often have problems with the images.

In fact, I've got an iPhone, Adium (which updates user images), .Mac backup, and BusySync - all of which lead to about three or four conflicts per day. I've found that the best thing [...]

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