Robert Denton

Staggering work of genius from Portland, Maine – Gardener, Photographer, Designer, Taco Maker, Birder, Biker, Wine Merchant

Posts tagged: OSX

Wednesday, February 16th, 2005

iScroll2: Two-Finger-Scrolling with pre-2005 PowerBooks and iBooks

Mediaville: Articles: Validator Install

Tuesday, July 20th, 2004

Mediaville: Articles: Validator Install Validator Install on OS X (10.3)

Window.print – Mac browsers

Thursday, June 3rd, 2004

Back in 2003 I lamented the fact that Safari did not support window.print — no clue why it was left out early on. It has worked for some time now, and it is supported in Gecko based browsers. Natch, IE5 on the mac will never support window.print… no worries, it’s a dead browser. It was […]

macosxhints – Disable the touch switches on Apple LCD monitors

Wednesday, June 2nd, 2004

macosxhints – Disable the touch switches on Apple LCD monitors Hold down Shift and Command and then click on the Displays preference panel. Quit System Preferences, then hold down Shift and Command and touch the Brightness switch on the front of the monitor. Gotta love hidden features.

macosxhints – 10.3: A fix for local drives not mounting until user login

Wednesday, June 2nd, 2004

macosxhints – 10.3: A fix for local drives not mounting until user login

O'Reilly Network: Speed up Safari [May. 21, 2004]

Thursday, May 27th, 2004

O’Reilly Network: Speed up Safari [May. 21, 2004]

Greg Westin: Enabling WebDAV on OS X for use with iCal

Tuesday, February 17th, 2004

Greg Westin: Enabling WebDAV on OS X for use with iCal Nice tutorial that I probably linked spammed before. I enabled WebDAV before from other instructions in the wild, maybe even –gasp– the manual!

Backup Strategies for OS X

Monday, February 16th, 2004

I have been using an rsync script in cron — works fine but is a bit messy due to lack of support for binary and some meta-data in files. Here are some answers: http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2004/02/10/backup.html http://www.bombich.com/software/ccc.html http://datasetgo.com/blog/?postid=19 http://rdiff-backup.stanford.edu/ http://www.rsnapshot.org/ http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription.html