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iPhone 4S and AT&T: The Devil You Know
A short tale of insult and injury: First, I lost my iPhone 3GS 2 weeks ago, so I am staying up late to preorder from AT&T at 2:01am CST. Why didn’t I have a clue this deadline would not be … Continue reading
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Lion’s grey sidebar is a Jedi mind trick
And a poor attempt at a Jedi mind trick at that. With the now grey and lifeless sidbar in Lion Apple is trying to visually say: “these aren’t the files or folders you’re looking for”. It’s as if they want … Continue reading
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Make Safari find substring matches by default
So, I thought I’d tip ol’ Pierre at betalogue to an apparent bug that Safari doesn’t find substrings, only words that begin with the search string! But then his astute readers pointed out that Safari 5.1 has changed the behaviour … Continue reading
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Restore previous Safari version from .SafariArchive.tar.gz
Did that new Safari update break something? Want your old version back? Simple. Thanks to Apple’s prescient yet secretive engineers, there’s a way. Let me show you. When Safari does an upgrade it saves the previous version in this location: … Continue reading
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myXProtectStatus
myXProtectStatus – A drop down status menulet for XProtect, showing date, version, and threats protected against. Written in bash, and wrapped with Platypus, it is informational only, so don’t ask me to add some menu item to do something, it just reports. … Continue reading
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WWDC 2011
Going to WWDC 2011! See you all there! (although, I got a haircut so it’s all short now and not the curls you see on the site ) and whatever is not NDA I’ll tweet via brunerd
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Advanced Safe Downloads List Tips and Tricks
So I submitted a hint for getting info about the Safe Downloads protection list, then I made a widget, now delving deeper into Safe Downloads list and the command line Let’s look at the BOM for the update: /Library/Preferences/com.apple.ReportMessages.domains /Library/Preferences/com.apple.ReportMessages.v2.domains /System/Library/CoreServices/CoreTypes.bundle/Contents/Resources/XProtect.plist /System/Library/CoreServices/MRTAgent.app /System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.mrt.uiagent.plist … Continue reading
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Safe Downloads List Info Widget
UPDATE: The AUTOUPDATE code only works as root and so is not useful in the Dashboard environment! This has been removed from the widget. So I slapped together a widget for the Safe Downloads commands I post at OSXHints: Safe … Continue reading
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Finder’s Nasty Inherited ACL Bug (aka Error -41)
Finder’s Inherited ACL handling is broken Support for inherited ACLs on folders is still in disarray in 10.6.7 (and has been since 10.6.5), there have been a few reports here and there, some mentioning Error -41, other saying it was AFP, … Continue reading
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More App Store tips for admins
Continuing the tech ramble about how to keep the App Store from your users… So, I figured out the two ways the App Store icon is added to the dock: 1. Existing users on an upgraded system are affected by … Continue reading
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