No updates, sorry

31/03/2007 21:39 | Categories: Fun, Geeky, Apple | 5 Comments 

There hasn't been any updates lately around here because my camera phone was broken. In addition to that I just left my company (I'm starting on Monday in my new job) and I had to return the phone and the SIM card, so I won't be posting anything till Monday at least when I hopefully get a new decent camera phone.

In the meantime, have a look below. Now I can finally justify having a Core 2 Duo machine with 1.5Gb of RAM: so that I can watch football from a Chinese channel with a P2P client running in a virtualized Windows and seen through a transparent shell window. I don't know whether I should be thankful because the MacBook is such a flexible machine or sad because of this massive waste of resources Oh, and it's not even my team, they're playing later, but since this is P2P TV the sooner you connect the better

My OS X 10.4 desktop

10/10/2005 03:47 | Categories: General, Apple | 1 Comments 

Somebody wanted to see my desktop, so here it is! Nothing really exceptional (default icons, default colours, and very few icons!!)

Information and pictures of the new Intel-Mac

09/06/2005 22:27 | Categories: Apple | 0 Comments 

There already is some information about Apple's Intel development transition kit. It sounds quite positive, though I am not so happy to see OpenFirmware go... We'll have to wait and see how the final system is like! There are also some pictures of the test system available too!

Hell froze over... AGAIN.

07/06/2005 06:36 | Categories: Apple | 7 Comments 

Well it looks like hell froze over once again for Apple and today Steve Jobs annouced Apple's switch to Intel processors. Let's see how it goes, though we won't see anything based on Intel coming from Apple probably until around this time next year.

Apparently IBM wasn't producing G5s fast enough and with enough clock-speed for Apple and Stevie got tired. At that point, where was he going to look at? There are no more major players in the CPU arena other than IBM, Intel and AMD so ruling IBM out, Jobs chose Intel (what about AMD?)

However, there are a few things to notice:

• Jobs said that future macs will run on Intel processors, but he did not say that these processors were going to be x86.
• They've already said that OS X on Intel will not run anywhere else but on Apple's computers.
• Linux on the desktop will be dead starting when the first OS X Intel machine is launched. Who will bother customizing and configuring Linux when there already is a cute-looking, well-working, integrated Unix-like OS for Intel out there, which can run Office 12, Dreamweaver, Photoshop, Final Cut Pro and GarageBand?
• Finally Apple laptops will be able to catch up speed-wise with their x86 counterparts. If Apple manages to get some of those dual-core Pentium-M into a Powerbook casing, the laptop market will be theirs to eat.

As a relatively new Mac user, I do not really care what's under the hood in my Powerbook. For all I care, it could run on banana skins. As long as Apple manages to keep things as smooth as they are, working well with each other, Unixish and integrated, I will be a happy camper.

On the other hand, I am a bit upset because this will reduce a lot the resale value of my Powerbook. Who will want a 2nd hand powerbook in a few years time, considering that the PPC architecture will be dead? I wasn't going to sell it anyway next year (I am hoping it will last at least 3-4 more years!), but it'd have been nice to sell it for a nice price...

How to make Spotlight index PHP files

15/05/2005 06:20 | Categories: Apple | 0 Comments 

I was pretty surprised to see that Spotlight does not support PHP files out of the box, even though they're plain text files. I was reading this hint: Spotlight's rules for indexing plain text files when I noticed a very useful comment about how to make Spotlight index PHP files. This is not my stuff, I am just putting it here in case somebody finds it interesting

Edit the file /System/Library/Spotlight/RichText.mdimporter/Contents/Info.plist, find the section MDImporter and add public.php-script to the list of files that should be indexed as follows:

<dict>
<key>CFBundleTypeRole</key>
<string>MDImporter</string>
<key>LSItemContentTypes</key>
<array>
<string>public.rtf</string>
<string>public.html</string>
<string>public.xml</string>
<string>public.plain-text</string>
<string>com.apple.traditional-mac-plain-text</string>
<string>com.apple.rtfd</string>
<string>com.apple.webarchive</string>
<string>public.php-script</string>
</array>
</dict>

Save the file and then run the mdimport -d1 file.php command to force Spotlight to reindex the file, or mdimport -d1 -f folder/ to reindex a folder.†

How to automatically start Postfix in OS X 10.4

15/05/2005 05:40 | Categories: Apple | 0 Comments 

More OS X hints today Even though Postfix is included in OS X 10.4, don't know why Apple did not include an <i>StartupItem</i> file so that the service would start automatically. If interested in getting Postfix to start automatically every time the system starts, there is a good hint here: Activating Postfix on OS X 10.4