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If you as me is running OSX Lion, and find that Preview is incredible slow to start, and for some reason it also load all the previous seen files, well then welcome to the new “Resume” feature which Apple have introduced.
I like it for some programs, but with Preview it slowed it down so [...]
I some times feel like a fool, why would one wonder, well I tend to buy the software I use, even the more expensive parts.
Now there is a wast amount of good freeware around, but not all of it always working (for example Adium seams to crash 2 – 3 times a day, [...]
So I “upgraded” my AppleTV (which have served me well for 2 years) to a new MacMini (kind of overkill, but hey one have to have fun).
After mocking around with for the whole weekend it is now working as it should, due to XBMC, and some scripts which stops iTunes from starting.
But [...]
Back in February 2008 I wrote about my unhappyness about Apples inability to build a usefull PHP for Leopard (OSX 10.5), which forced more or less everyone who would be using PHP on Leopard to use a 3rd party build. And as far as I remember this was also the case with Tiger.
Now [...]
There is a small issue with the “default” keyboard setup in OSX X11 (Leopard), after having had this issue for some time I finally decided that I needed to have this fixed.
And found a post which pointed to “/usr/X11/share/X11/xkb” as being the issue, and yes after renaming it:
# sudo mv /usr/X11/share/X11/xkb /usr/X11/share/X11/xkb.orig
Everything [...]
There are a few things I really do not like, some of them does not have to do with computers, and some of them does.
As a notebook use, with a frequent use of a external monitor, I’ve gotten around to live with the mess of cables on my desk, but on I cannot live [...]
One of the most annoying things with the iPhone is that on have to pay through the nose to get an unlocked iPhone (current only Orange in France, and they charge €699 – afair), and Apple have an silly idea about programs on it – the SDK is a great idea, but I’m still [...]
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