The New Yorker now available on iPhone

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If you MUST have The New Yorker available at all times, and you own an iPhone, the now universal app is for you. Subscribers will get the magazine for free after activating a digital subscription. Others will find the August 13 and August 20 issues…

7 August 2012

Save space after Mail upgrade

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Migrating Mail from Lion to Mountain Lion leaves behind a folder containing previous attachments. Attachments in Lion were saved to ~/Library/Mail Downloads, but under Mountain Lion, Mail is now sandboxed, and the new path is…

6 August 2012

Notification Center keyboard shortcut

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There is no preset keyboard shortcut for Notification Center, but you can set one in System Preferences > Keyboard > Keyboard Shortcuts > Mission Control. [kirkmc adds: You can also set a hot corner in the Mission Control preference pane. I find the top…

6 August 2012

Macs abound at NASA/JPL Mars Curiosity mission control

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For those of us who stayed up late last night to watch the streaming coverage of the Curiosity rover's landing on Mars, it was a treat to see the huge numbers of MacBooks, iPads, and even iPhones that were in the control room at NASA's Jet Propulsion…

6 August 2012

The role of the Mac at NASA and JPL is shown off by Mars Curiosity mission

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My colleague Steve Sande touched on this subject of all the Macs at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in an earlier post, and I've been doing some digging to find out more about all the Mac love at our space agency and its field centers. JPL is managed by…

6 August 2012

Apple vs. Samsung: Trial roundup

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Under normal circumstances, the proceedings of a patent trial would be about as exciting as watching grass grow on TV, picture-in-picture, while paint dries on the main channel. However, Apple versus Samsung has been surprisingly fascinating so far, but…

4 August 2012

Keep your Mac from sleeping in Mountain Lion

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Since Mountain Lion was released, I find that my Macs go to sleep when I don't want them to. I had my Energy Saver preferences set to 15 minutes, but I've noticed that when something is active, such as a download, they got to sleep after 15 minutes, rather…

1 August 2012

Automatic Property Synthesis with Xcode 4.4

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Copyright © 2019 - K Harrison Privacy and Cookies Terms of Use, The release of OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion this week also brought us an Xcode release with some long awaited Objective-C improvements. If you upgraded your development machine to Mountain Lion…

1 August 2012

Why apps in Mountain Lion might need to see your address data

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In OS X Mountain Lion, Apple has added extra protection around the address book and restricted apps from gaining access to the contents without a user's permission. This added security is beneficial for users, but it poses a communication problem for…

31 July 2012