By Mark Tennent in Reader
Posted in utilities, Leopard, Apple on July 2, 2008 at 2:26 pm
Those of us lucky enough to get a new Mac from time to time (hum hum) will be thanking Apple for Time Machine. It takes all the hassle out of setting up a new Mac, a task that used to take days to install, register, configure and upgrade all the applications. As our recent experience found, Time Machine archives are a rich ground for ardent tinkerers who never RTFM. And if they do they don’t believe all they read. Read more
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By Mark Tennent in Reader
Posted in utilities, Leopard, Apple on June 5, 2008 at 10:10 am
In the week following the latest Mac System upgrade to 10.5.3, the next upgrade to 10.5.4 is already under test and rumours populate the Net of the next biggie, Mac OS X 10.6 also currently known as Snow Leopard. The biggest surprise is that 10.6 will drop support for PowerPC processors and for Carbon
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By Mark Tennent in Reader
Posted in Leopard, Apple on May 29, 2008 at 4:13 pm
The latest Mac OS X upgrade is available at a Software Update near you. Apart from fixing loads of glitches, it also messes with Time Machine and some upgraders, this one included, have had mixed results after the upgrade. For more details go to the Discussions on Apples Support pages, here. Read more
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By Mark Tennent in Reader
Posted in utilities, Internet, Leopard, Apple on May 12, 2008 at 12:55 pm
When the temperature outside starts with a 3 you know you have problems. A single digit, Fahrenheit, or preceded by a minus (as is often the case in Montreal and other under-developed parts of the world) means it is what is technically known as bloody freezing. A single digit after the 3, as in the southern half of the UK this weekend, the correct term is bloody hot. Unless you are measuring in the R
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By Mark Tennent in Reader
Posted in Leopard, Apple on November 22, 2007 at 12:04 pm
According to latest reports, us Southerners prefer moggies to doggies while Northerners are more likely to assume we refer to their affectionate name for benzodiazepine.
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By Mark Tennent in Reader
Posted in Leopard on November 13, 2007 at 10:27 am
Our Leopard family has started to have cubs as the updates come in thick and fast. But one change that was unexpected and definitely for the better, is Firewire handling.
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By Mark Tennent in Reader
Posted in Leopard on November 5, 2007 at 12:25 pm
We have a whole family of Leopards living in our office now. The upgrade has been trouble-free once we had learned which utilities to un-install before upgrading: ClamX, Onyx and Epson scanner driver being the most important for us.
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By Mark Tennent in Reader
Posted in Leopard on October 31, 2007 at 10:00 am
Before Leopard, Mac OS X expected the Users folder to be in the same disk location as the active System. This is usually no problem for Mac users with only one hard disk but for those cognoscenti who work in more rarified ways, having a System and the Users folders in different places is a real bonus.
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By Mark Tennent in Reader
Posted in Leopard on October 29, 2007 at 8:31 am
As I write this, that Trucking Never Turns-up courier company have less than 15 minutes remaining before they break their delivery promise for the third time in a row.
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By Mark Tennent in Reader
Posted in Leopard on April 27, 2007 at 11:49 am
Back in the last century, when we got started as designers and our clients paid their bills (unlike today
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