Tag Archives: Mac OS X Leopard

Java on Mac: Going downhill or catching up with native?

Posted on November 8, 2007 by Steven Fisher

I admit I’m no Java expert, but this doesn’t sound like such a bad turn of events to me. In fact, it sounds pretty decent. Apple’s Technical Note TN2196 discusses the new control styles available within J2SE 5.0 on Mac … Continue reading →

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Ugly + opaque = still ugly.

Posted on November 8, 2007 by Steven Fisher

Daring Fireball links to an Apple support document: Some graphics cards, such as an NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200, may not have the necessary OpenGL capabilities to display a translucent menu bar even though they are compatible with Core Image. Those … Continue reading →

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New in Leopard: Global Login Items?

Posted on November 7, 2007 by Steven Fisher

Not a lot of details yet, but apparently Mac OS X 10.5 supports Global Login Items. This would be a nice thing to have more information on, as I can imagine needing to remove these. From Apple’s technote on Daemons … Continue reading →

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Leopard docks

Posted on November 2, 2007 by Steven Fisher

Turn off glass effect for the dock: defaults write com.apple.dock no-glass -boolean YES; killall Dock Turn on glass effect for the dock: defaults write com.apple.dock no-glass -boolean NO; killall Dock Want something else for the dock? Most (all?) of these … Continue reading →

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Best quote yet on Leopard's translucent menu bar

Posted on November 2, 2007 by Steven Fisher

Best quote yet on Leopard’s translucent menu bar: If anyone happens to meet the UI designer who thought a transparent menu bar was a good idea, please slap them once for every Leopard user (two million slaps and counting…) To … Continue reading →

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Mac OS X runs deleted applications

Posted on November 1, 2007 by Steven Fisher

I filed this as radar #5574036, but it seems significant to share: Imagine that you trash an application because of a security flaw. Say, it handles the URL type foofoo, and is proven to be a security risk. But the … Continue reading →

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Stacks: An unmitigated disaster

Posted on November 1, 2007 by Steven Fisher

Subtitle: The Ugliest Thing You Have Ever Seen in the Mac GUI I think I can get off my horse now. This says everything I want to on the subject, only much more elegantly. And with, like, pictures and stuff.

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/me is happy

Posted on October 31, 2007 by Steven Fisher

I haven’t seen this mentioned anywhere at all, but iChat now does something with /me: (Thanks for the excellent demo, mx.)

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Things I don't like about Leopard

Posted on October 30, 2007 by Steven Fisher

There’s a lot of things I like about Leopard, and I plan on writing about them soon. However, I found it easier to write about the things I don’t like. This is probably mostly because there are so few of … Continue reading →

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No search in Leopard Dev Center

Posted on October 29, 2007 by Steven Fisher

Apple hasn’t deigned to include search functions in their Leopard Dev Center. Without an ADC account, you won’t be able to log in. And without logging in, you’ll see only the light version of the site. But the only difference … Continue reading →

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