Entries Tagged 'Apple' ↓
June 17th, 2008 — Apple
For the longest time, I installed my Mac applications into a ~/Applications (off the home directory instead of the root directory). The primary reason for this at the time was to make backup and restore simpler. By keeping the installed apps separate from the stock Mac OS X applications, it made i easier to fire up a new machine image and then just copy back the home directory. Now that I am using Time Machine with a Time Capsule, this is probably irrelevant. Nevertheless, as a creature of habit, even today I was installing Firefox 3.0, I put it under my home directory.
The nifty tip that I’d like to share is that when you see this:
and you would like to drag the application to your custom location instead of the Alias which some applications are now providing on the disk image. How can you actually access your folders?
Well, you click the pill! Yes, that tiny pill in the upper right-hand corner of every Finder window that you probably just block out as useless is actually perfect for this situation.
And now, we drag. THAT IS ALL.
April 29th, 2008 — Apple, Phone
The other day we were dining at the PhilBrook Museum and the phone interference on their stereo speaker was deafening and highly annoying. They eventually had to turn the speakers off. The waiter looked at us knowingly and remarked, “it’s the phones”…IMHO, it sucks to have to turn off the nice background music for the entire restaurant just because the phones (and my iPhone seems to be a horrible offender in this regard) spew signal like it’s going out of style.
I heard of a “fix” today over on Bubblicious (yeah, it’s a little like duct tape) for stopping speaker interference. It’s a pretty easy adjustment to make when you’re getting crosstalk on your speakers.
- Cut an iPhone-sized rectangle of aluminum foil
- Set your iPhone on it when you aren’t using it
October 17th, 2007 — Apple, Austin, Business, Games
Riverfold Software has released the version of Wii Transfer that you’ve all been waiting for…with video! Wii Transfer turns your Mac into a Media Server for the Wii. All your iTunes songs and playlists, and now your movies are streamable to your Wii game machine. It’s just too cool. If you have a Mac and a Wii but haven’t checked out Wii Transfer yet, you really should.
If you act today, you can purchase Wii Transfer for 1/2 off at MacZot! Wii Transfer is already worth the $20 bill as it is, so the MacZot offer is incredible.
