Well, I just finished running through a clean install of OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard on my iMac. I did a clean install, wiping out everything on the drive. I had read that it would be necessary to install Leopard first but found that wasn’t the case. After verifying my backups I just popped the Snow Leopard DVD into the drive and double-clicked the install icon. I clicked the “Utilities…” button rather than “Continue” on the first screen. Then I clicked the “Restart” button. After the reboot I selected “Utilities” [...] Read the rest »
Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard Ships This Week
If you’re someone who cares about this then you probably already know that Apple will be releasing OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard this coming Friday. Amazon has had the software available for pre-order for awhile now, but now the Apple store has it listed for pre-order with a Aug 28 delivery date. I pre-ordered from Amazon and at that time Amazon was promising delivery on the release date. Now they’re back to their normal shipping options without a promise for release date delivery. This marks a milestone in Apple’s history [...] Read the rest »
Browsing The Website Stats
I like to browse through my website stats to see how visitors get here and what is popular. Along with things like OS’s and browser versions I also occassionally find interesting searches that brought people here. I use Google Analytics and Mint to collect stats and of course no stats program is perfect, but here’s some current highlights. Firefox is overwhelmingly the browser of choice for visitors to this site. According to Google Analytics 45% of visitors use Firefox, 27% use Internet Explorer, 19% use Safari and 6% use Chrome. [...] Read the rest »
SquareSpace Considered
SquareSpace has been getting a lot of publicity in most tech podcasts I listen to. It had the feel of an orchestrated publicity campaign so I didn’t pay much attention to the hype and ignored it for awhile. But the thought of having a hosted website along with the ability to extensively customize the site made me decide to take a look at it, so I signed up for their free 14 day trial. The bottom line, there’s a lot to like but I won’t be moving any existing sites [...] Read the rest »
Comcast Customer Disservice
It was recently reported that Comcast would be hijacking DNS error pages. Instead of returning a website not found error for typos Comcast will return a search page with ads. When I first heard about this I could understand why a company would want to do this (money) and while I didn’t like it I didn’t get mad. Just a company trying to maximize the bucks. I was even encouraged because it seemed like Comcast was taking a smart approach as opposed to other ISPs that do this. Then I [...] Read the rest »
OS X 10.5.8 Update
Apple has released OS X 10.5.8 for Leopard. The update includes a generic list of fixes: Upgrades Safari to version 4.0.2. Improves the accuracy of full history search in Safari 4. Resolves an issue in which certain resolutions might not appear in the Display pane in System Preferences. Dragging an Aperture image into Automator now invokes an Aperture action instead of incorrectly invoking an iPhoto action. Resolves an issue that could prevent importing of large photo and movie files from digital cameras. Improves overall Bluetooth reliability with external devices, USB [...] Read the rest »
Frustration Comes Then Goes
It wouldn’t be beta if there weren’t some problems and frustrations with Windows 7. After installing Windows Update KB72636 (a compatibility list update for IE my screensaver and energy saver stopped kicking off. No problem running the screensaver manually. Coincidence maybe, but it always worked up until that point and that was the only change. The quick troubleshooting like resetting it and rebooting didn’t work. I was going to sit down and tackle it this weekend but decided to see if there were any other updates. There were, a Silverlight [...] Read the rest »
