Tag Archives: Mac OS X

Hey, can we stop bragging yet?

Posted on April 3, 2008 by Steven Fisher

When an application crashes in Mac OS X, there’s a dialog box that appears to inform you of it. It mentions that no other applications are affected. This irritates me every time I see it. Honestly, I thought they’d remove … Continue reading →

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May I please crash now?

Posted on April 3, 2008 by Steven Fisher

This is from Xcode’s Interface Builder. I’ve never seen a more polite assertion failure. It even asks if it’s okay to crash. You don’t see that very often. And keep in mind this is for a tool used by software … Continue reading →

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Restore deleted Safari cookies

Posted on March 31, 2008 by Steven Fisher

Safari 3.1 still eats cookies, although it seems to do so much less often than 3.0. I just hit it for the first time since updating. So what do you do when your cookies all disappear? Well, you can actually … Continue reading →

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Code signing

Posted on March 7, 2008 by Steven Fisher

Mike from Rogue Amoeba on Code Signing and You on Mac OS X.

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A moldy corner in Mac OS X Leopard

Posted on February 29, 2008 by Steven Fisher

Audio MIDI Setup is a pretty moldy corner, really. Click to see it in motion: Even the question and button names at the end are worded in a way that conflicts with generally accepted Mac standards.

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.Mac thoughts

Posted on February 27, 2008 by Steven Fisher

So I’m about five days into my free .Mac trial, and I thought I’d write up some thoughts. I pay about $60 per year for 500 GB of storage and 5 TB of bandwidth from DreamHost. .Mac costs $100 per … Continue reading →

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10.5.2 fixes and misses

Posted on February 15, 2008 by Steven Fisher

In addition to the Time Machine security issue I reported (radar link) ((You won’t be able to follow this link; it’s in case anyone from Apple stumbles across this post and wants to look up these bugs. See rdar:// urls … Continue reading →

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Apple claims fix to Time Machine security bug

Posted on February 11, 2008 by Steven Fisher

Apple claims to have fixed the issue where applications could run automatically out of a Time Machine backup. Look for CVE-2008-0038 in Apple’s About the security content of Mac OS X 10.5.2 and Security Update 2008-001 . Thanks to Apple … Continue reading →

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Hierarchical menus suck

Posted on January 4, 2008 by Steven Fisher

In Where Keyboard Shortcuts Win, Gruber talks about Tog’s findings on mouse vs. keyboard. In a footnote, he adds: Especially with most Cocoa apps, where the Find commands are in a sub-menu, and thus take even longer to target using … Continue reading →

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I consider Stacks the very worst feature Apple’s ever added to Mac OS X (or Mac OS before it). Even QuickTime auto-play could be turned off! So I was very pleased to see a report that 10.5.2 fixes stacks (in … Continue reading →

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