I’m pretty sure it has, I certainly haven’t turned this off. Uploaded with plasq‘s Skitch! The release notes for the update mentions “Improves stability and performance during log in.”. Anyone else seen the same or worse?
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First Apple 'Genius' Experience
If it was up to me, i’d just replace the cracked topcase on my Macbook myself. I’ve got the Macbook service manual (one that gets issued to the Official Apple Service Centre places) and it’s just as straight forward as I thought. However when I asked the Genius at my local Apple store if I [...]
Apple Macbook – Build quality continued
In the short time since my previous post about my cracked Macbook i’ve been doing a bit of research and have found identical issues. Here is a pic with the same problem in the same place, via this thread on Macrumours: Uploaded with plasq‘s Skitch! There’s even a Flickr group for this problem and an [...]
Post MWSF Keynote shopping list
Definitely want to pick up the 1TB Time Capsule, much easier than remembering to connect up my external drive every night! Also, i’m considering picking up an Apple TV to replace the old Mac Mini I have under my TV at the moment (Which i’m going to relocate to the music room to use as [...]
Renaming folders/tags in Google Reader
I can’t believe that there isn’t a built in way to rename tags within the Google Reader UI! Shocking. Quickest way I’ve found is to export your feeds (Settings | Import / Export), edit the XML by hand (fortunately my 100 or so feeds are organised within ~12 folders), delete all of your subs from [...]
Project Euler
I came across Project Euler this evening via this post. Project Euler is a series of challenging mathematical/computer programming problems that will require more than just mathematical insights to solve. Although mathematics will help you arrive at elegant and efficient methods, the use of a computer and programming skills will be required to solve most [...]
Free Trac and SVN hosting
I’ve been getting really pissed off trying to install Trac to my Dreamhost shared server, to the extent that i’m contemplating moving hosts. In the interim, DevJaVu have just started to offer free Personal accounts that include integrate Trac and SVN. All you need to do is sign up using the referal code johnny5. I [...]
VMWare Fusion and network bridging
** UPDATED MARCH 12 2010: I just posted my solution to this problem here ** I’ve had VMWare Fusion running an image of my work laptop, on my Macbook, for nearly three weeks now. I’ve had no problems at all, running over both NAT and via network bridge. Until this week. Now, when I try [...]
Quicksilver roadmap at the end
In an earlier post, I mentioned how i’d been an admirer of the Quicksilver application and its workflow. Having finally picked up a Mac for full time use (work & play), it was I think the 2nd application I installed. It’s definately a great productivity tool. I’m not keen on the way OS X has [...]
Reasons to Jailbreak #1
My foray into the world of jailbroken iPhones was due to one very simple app – MobileScrobbler. It simply hooks into the iPod functionalit and submits the Artist, Track and Album information to my Last.FM profile. Having been an avid, subscribing scrobbler for nigh on three years now, I can’t bear to listen to anything [...]