Archive for the 'OS' Category

Enabling two-sided (duplex) printing on Mac

Sunday, October 18th, 2009

Recently while trying to print a web-page via Safari, I realized that the two-sided print option was disabled.

At first I thought it was something to do with Snow Leopard and HP’s printer drivers (the printer was an HP LaserJet P3005). However, even after installing the latest HP printer drivers the two-sided print option remained [...]

Snow Leopard – Availability and Pricing in India

Monday, August 31st, 2009

Mac OS 10.6 aka Snow Leopard will be available in India in another 2-4 weeks. It’ll be priced at Rs. 1,800 for existing Mac OS 10.5 users. Tiger users can buy the Mac Box Set which includes iLife’09, iWork’09 and Snow Leopard, for Rs. 10,000. As far as we can tell, Apple is not [...]

Jailbroken iPhone or iPod Touch? Don’t update to OSX 10.5.6 yet

Tuesday, December 16th, 2008

According to iSpazio, the latest release of OSX Leopard 10.5.6 (now available if you do a software update) does not recognize a jailbroken iPhone or iPod Touch in DFU mode. So if you have a unlocked/jailbroken iPhone or iPod Touch, chances are iTunes won’t recognize it if you ever have to restore or update it.
However, [...]

How Mac OS handles Mixed Mode CDs

Sunday, October 19th, 2008

I am sure many of you have connected a hard-disk with 2 partitions to your Mac. What happens? Well, you get two hard-disk icons on your Desktop – one for each partition. I was suprised to find (and in hindsight it feels sensible enough) that Mixed Mode CDs behave in exactly the same way. What [...]

Links open in Mobile Safari which then crashes?

Sunday, October 5th, 2008

I use Safari’s (and Dashboard’s) Web Clip feature to keep a track of latest news on Rediff.com. The red arrow in the screenshot below points to Rediff’s main headline section, which I use as a Web Clip.

Clicking on a link in a Web Clip, usually opens a new Safari window with that link. I had [...]