Planet GNOME
One of our customers mailed us to say that they had some database corruption in one of their main tables, and obviously our friend Murphy had forgotten to take backups, and could we take a look at it ? Obviously it’s always way more fun to poke at someone…
27 February 2011Planet Ubuntu
In the last week or two, I have been trying out search engines other than Google (yes, Google is not the only search engine). The two I am most impressed with are DuckDuckGo and Blekko, DuckDuckGo is so good that it has knocked Google off it’s place as my…
25 February 2011MacOSXHints.com
My previous solution to auto answering FaceTime calls involved AppleScript, which required 'Access to assistive devices' to be enabled. I thought this method , while it worked, was too cumbersome, so I began to dig into FaceTime to find a way around the…
25 February 2011TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog
Dear Aunt TUAW, I'm in the Mac Developer program and I'd really like to be able to install Lion on my MacBook Air as a second OS. What are the best strategies to do this? Is it worth going out and buying a second SSD drive and swapping that out with my…
25 February 2011TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog
Alfred is a utility for Mac OS X that's part app launcher, part navigation tool and part web service. In short, it's a productivity tool that sits quietly in the background until you need something -- fast. Imagine a fully fueled 1987 Buick GNX 223 idling…
25 February 2011Macworld
Seagate has played down technical problems experienced in recent weeks by users of the company's Momentus XT hybrid hard drive.
25 February 2011inessential.com
Cocoa Samurai: “With grand central dispatch and blocks many problems that have been traditionally associated with multithreading go away.” Nice work by Colin Wheeler.
24 February 2011Macworld
Want an easy way to read your PDFs on your iPhone or iPad? Here's how to use Automator to add PDF files to iBooks from within Preview.
24 February 2011MacOSXHints.com
Having trouble automatically reconnecting your unattended Mac to a wireless network because of unreliable signal quality? If you would like to have it keep reattempting reconnection until it manages to connect it's fairly simple to setup. You need to use…
24 February 2011Planet Mozilla
At Mozilla we have around 400 million Firefox users by now, that means that offering traditional support to them is completely impossible, especially since the support team has only 5 employees. But we still want happy users, and the only way that works is…
24 February 2011