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I thought this was important enough to share in a short blog post… Just 10 months ago, Mozilla started to migrate their Selenium projects from the Selenium RC API to the WebDriver API. I’m thrilled to say that this is now complete, and that no Selenium RC…
16 August 2012MacOSXHints.com
If you go to the Time Machine System Preference and click on Select Disk, if you already have a disk set as your backup and you select a second disk, you are presented with a dialog asking if you want to delete the current disk or use both disks for Time…
16 August 2012inessential.com
Dave’s added an Apple tab to his news river. Good selection of feeds. Update 7:40 pm: Underneath is a JSON feed. Which makes it super-easy to re-purpose and display however you want. If you started today, you could write an iOS or Mac app that displayed a…
15 August 2012Use Your Loaf
Copyright © 2019 - K Harrison Privacy and Cookies Terms of Use, Lion and now also Mountain Lion have an annoying tendency to helpfully terminate applications for you. I spotted a tip by Matt Neuburg over on the TidBITS blog this week which offers a…
13 August 2012TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog
Lifehacker has a simple look at how to set up Mountain Lion's built-in text expansion (or, as Apple calls it, "substitution") options. In System Preferences, under Language and Text, you can go in and set up any number of text shortcuts that will expand…
11 August 2012Use Your Loaf
Copyright © 2019 - K Harrison Privacy and Cookies Terms of Use, After upgrading to Mountain Lion I have been hitting some problems with my Mac sleeping when I was expecting it be doing some work. Typically this happens when I leave it running a script…
9 August 2012MacOSXHints.com
I had many applications show up as "Installed" in the update pane of the Mac App Store even after I had updated them. Apparently, if you have copies of an application on your system, even on a secondary drive, they are discovered by the Mac App Store.…
9 August 2012MacOSXHints.com
I came across this Apple technical note this morning, which describes how to flush the DNS cache on your Mac. We have a hint for 10.5, which is also valid for 10.6, but we're not up to date. So, as a reminder, to flush the DNS cache in Mac OS X 10.5 and…
8 August 2012MacOSXHints.com
If you've tried burning the Mountain Lion installer to a standard DVD, you've probably noticed that it does not quite fit. Fortunately, there is a way around this. The problem is that the size of the InstallESD image is fixed at 4.75 GB; slightly larger…
7 August 2012TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog
A few years ago I wrote about Orbicule's Undercover 4 software. Undercover lets you remotely track and monitor a missing Mac, and can even help you recover your stolen gear. Given the Mac security issues in the news over the last few days, it's worthwhile…
7 August 2012