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Welcome Снежный Леопард !

August 25th 2009

Осталось совсем чуть-чуть,

и Снежный Леопард появится в продаже. Как обещали люди связанные с его распространением, дорого он стоить не будет. Так что вполне вероятно, дома у нас будет на одного легального кота больше !
Хотя сам Снежный Леопард (10.6), на мой взгляд будет содержать вещи не особо видимые на поверхности. Там не видно ничего революционого (dropped [...]

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Copy by Drag in Leopard [MAC OS]

May 7th 2008

It is a small challenge to understand, what drag* icon action does copy or move in Leopard.

1) Dragging from one folder to another on the same disk moves the icon.
2) Dragging from one disk to another copies the folder or the file.
3) It is possible to hold option key [alt in Windows terminology], while dragging [...]

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Don't do it !

April 30th 2008

Do not remove printer files to save extra space for you Leopard [MAC OS] !
One day screwed to figure out, why export file to PDF is not working correctly. It happened someday, when I figured out that extra space can be saved on Leopard by removing printer files. Guys reported that it works smoothly, and [...]

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MacOS free uninstall program, AppCleaner

March 31st 2008

MacOS uninstall process is not like Windows uninstall [everybody knows it],
when you click on ‘Uninstall program’ link or dig ‘Control Panel’ settings to find the button remove program.
MacOS uninstall, when you go to the Applications menu, find unneeded program and drag it into Trash. Program is uninstalled trash is empty, nice.

However, few programs are bugging [...]

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Missing manual

March 27th 2008

How many products are proud of the fact, that there is any documentation required to use them ?
Well in fact there are many that comes without documentation [Windows XP, MacOS Leopard, etc.] The problem is that most of the products are very hard usable without documentation.
I do not know how many Apple products [...]

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Testing Red Sweater

February 3rd 2008

Red Sweater Software is making MarsEdit and few other products.
MarsEdit looks something that I was thinking about for sometime, it is blog publishing software (it is for Mac). Since a lot of posts are not being created for two minutes, it comes very useful. Moreover Safari 3 still does not work good with Wordpress RTE, [...]

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Apple Developers Sense of Humor.

January 26th 2008

Humor is about networking. Since I’ve got MacBook every time I’m very surprised, how easy to get working network sharing between Mac-Windows, Windows-Windows scenario asks for more effort.
Well, do you know how Mac OS is showing Windows computer as neighbor, look

It’s kinda of legacy CRT monitor with some error displayed.
Mac OS computer in the network [...]

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Diagrams in Mac OS, OmniGraffle !

January 9th 2008

How many times I had in mind these thoughts ? Not easy to remember. Today about diagrams in MacOS
Some time ago one person said (c), translation,
when people are asking me about the specific software in Mac. The answer is that alternative program exists, that could make you to think about switch to Mac OS.
Omnigraffle [...]

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How, Mr. Boginskis (almost) purchased first gadget from e-bay.

December 10th 2007

I have used to avoid purchasing things from e-bay.
This Friday I was at the payment confirmation, then some mysterious forces told me to stop.

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The way to make Quicktime play all files.

December 8th 2007

It is not possible to play AVI, DiVX and some other Media Types with default Quicktime and without additional codecs.

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