Category: Mac

13 posts

Hail the AHT (Apple Hardware Test)

by kai on 28/02/2012

Yesterday afternoon I all of a sudden started to get GSODs (Grey Screen Of Death) - the equivalent of the Windows Blue Screen of Death. Not good - actually those were my first serious crashes on this particular machine ever (which is about 2.5 years old). I went through the usual diagnostics, OSX permissions and repair, fsck from single-user mode etc. but nothing helped. One thing I noticed…

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Getting into Clojure (and other stuff)

by kai on 07/01/2012

With the recent changes at Adobe I was more and more thinking that I need to further diversify what I'm doing. That was already happening in 2010 and 2011 quite a lot - client demand for Flash and Flex solutions decreased (and still is decreasing) and we found ourselves doing more and more Javascript-based applications. Quite often those would include jQuery or other frameworks, more recently…

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Some thoughts on Java, OS X, Eclipse and others

by kai on 26/10/2010

Somewhere deeply hidden in the release notes of the recent Java for Mac OS X update, our friends from Apple have announced that they deprecated the Java runtime for Mac OS X and that "developers should not rely on the Apple-supplied Java runtime being present in future versions of Mac OS X". Read that as: Mac OS X 10.7 won't have Java (by Apple), maybe we're lucky and get the 10.6 update 3 thrown…

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How to fix arbitrary error when mounting Windows drives via Samba in OSX

by kai on 14/07/2010

Even though I'm a convinced OS X / Mac user when it comes to my development machines, sometimes I unfortunately have to connect to resp. mount Windows shares via Samba. That could be a remote Windows server at the client's end I'm connecting to via VPN or just a share in a virtual machine in VMWare Fusion on my Mac. Sometimes though unmounting the share/drive in Finder leads to a weird scenario…

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OS X quick look for Flex

by kai on 23/01/2010

A few days ago I posted about using qlcolorcode to display syntax highlighted ColdFusion code in Mac OS X's Finder's quick look. Now - I had a bit of a look into how to use/extend the same plugin for displaying Action Script and MXML code as well. Qlcolorcode already has built-in support for Action Script (although it's not complete and really 100% correct for AS3 as it appears to me), but it's…

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OS X quick look for ColdFusion

by kai on 19/01/2010

I haven't blogged for ages - but that's not the point of this post. I recently had to quickly glance over a whole lot of legacy CF files and I didn't want to have to open each individual file in my preferred IDE. OS X supports quick look by hitting the space bar in finder for a lot of file types, ColdFusion wasn't supported so far. The other day then I found a quick look plugin named qlcolorcode…

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Virtualizing OS X 10.5 Client on OS X 10.5

by kai on 06/12/2008

With VMWare Fusion 2, VMWare has built support for installing the OS X 10.5 server operating system into the product. For various (I suppose licensing) reasons, VMWare Fusion 2 doesn't allow one to install OS X 10.5 client - the setup wizard of Fusion would just not allow it. The technical reason is basically that Fusion is checking for the existence of a file…

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Leopard and the broken FileReference in Flash Player

by kai on 02/11/2007

With the update to Mac OS 10.5 (Leopard), a lot of people reported issues with using the FileReference in the FlashPlayer (i.e. uploading/downloading files). Emmy Huang, who's Product Manager for the FlashPlayer, has just posted that the "Moviestar" beta update for Mac that's on Adobe Labs has been bumped up to version 9.0.98.0 and that it contains a fix/workaround for the FileReference issue. Be warned, this wouldn't be a final release, but at least it gives us a reasonable workaround.

Want to buy a Mac in New Zealand?

by kai on 04/09/2007

As I've blogged a few weeks ago - Diane and I have converted to using Macbooks (I'm on a MBP, she's working on a nice 13" black Macbook). When we were considering our options buying, we were looking into the official Apple resellers which honestly are a rip-off in New Zealand price-wise. Luckily, after doing a bit of research, I found Triaxis Ltd., a company focussing on selling Apple products…

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Powermail - the end of the story

by kai on 11/08/2007

The other week, I've blogged about my struggle to find a mail client on the Mac to suit my needs. After working with Powermail, I'm pretty happy now. The software is great, works very well for me and I can really recommend it. Apparently a few people who work with particular IMAP server setup have major issues, but that didn't concern me as I just want it to be my POP3 client anyway - so all good…

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