Archive for the 'OS' Category

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 [...]

Adding Kannada support to Mac OS X

Wednesday, August 20th, 2008

As mentioned earlier, Mac OS X (10.5) comes with support for Devnagri (which technically enables Hindi, Marathi; and depending on where you are in India, Konkani), Gujarati, Gurmukhi and Tamil. Support for other Indian languages is available from 3rd parties and is usually free. Here is how you can add Kannada support to your Mac.
If [...]

New software updates available for OSX

Saturday, August 2nd, 2008

Apple has released a bunch of updates for OSX including some security patches.

The softwares which are getting updates are -

FCP/Pro Apps
iPhoto
iLife
iWeb
iMovie
iTunes
Security update

Edit: Apparently most of these updates are old, they just showed up in my ‘Software Update’ today

5 handy UNIX commands for Terminal.app lovers

Wednesday, July 30th, 2008

Given Mac’s slick UI, chances are you’ll never bother with what is under the hood. Still, sometimes it helps to know a little bit of Terminal-foo. If you studied UNIX at school or college, you’ll feel right at home. Mac OS after all is UNIX under the hood and you can even find remenants [...]