Archive for the ‘Apple’ Category

A Questionable Article From a Questionable writer?

November 25th, 2007

Tony Celeste reports for Tom’s Guide:
This is something I never thought I’d hear myself say - or maybe I should say, see myself type - about an Apple operating system: Mac OSX Leopard was released before it was ready. This operating system needed more testing on more systems with more hardware, and especially, more software […]

Fix the Leopard Ugliness redux: tips learned in between

November 21st, 2007

I have previously posted a collection of tips about fixing the Leopard ugliness (you know, the 3D dock, the Stacks and the transparent menubar).
The Mac community had been hard at work on the meantime, producing some even better tips to replace some of the previous kludgy solutions.
JWZ, of Netscape/Mozilla fame, offers some tips on how […]

Fix the Leopard 2D Dock: remove the white edge borders

November 15th, 2007

On a recent post titled “How to fix the Leopard GUI ugliness (dock, menubar, stacks)” I wrote about turning your Leopard Dock to a 2D one, and complained about the white edges you get when you do so.
Adam Jury commented about how you can get rid of those lines if you just remove the files […]

How to fix the Leopard GUI ugliness (dock, menubar, stacks)

November 11th, 2007

Well, since Apple’s UI team seems to be in ruins (or on cheap acid capsules), someone has to step up and fix the bloody mess that they have created.
Make the Leopard Dock 2D
For the Terminal-fearing types there is a simple application that lets you switch between 2D and 3D look. It’s called 2DOrNot2D and it’s […]

QuickLook chokes on BOM-less text files

November 10th, 2007

Do you know the BOM? Short for Byte Order Mark, it refers to a few bytes in the beginning of a utf-8 file, used to denote the endianess (byte order), of the file. The BOM is (supposed to be) invisible when opening the file for editing.
It’s is, in my opinion, an abomination in the eyes […]