Sean Corfield's thoughts on Adobe technologies, software design and application frameworks. http://corfield.org Walt Mossberg (of The Wall Street Journal) has some <a href="http://ptech.allthingsd.com/20080702/some-general-tips-for-switch-to-mac-from-windows/">general tips for switching to Mac from Windows</a>. It's mostly simple stuff - keyboard and mouse nav... http://corfield.org/entry/Switching_to_Mac_Walt_Mossberg_has_some_tips seancorfield 2008-07-04T14:10:00-05:00 osx Did you know? If you highlight any text in any application on Mac OS X and drag the selected text to the Safari dock icon, Safari will open and perform a Google search for the dragged text. Courtesy of <a href="http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?... http://corfield.org/entry/Useful_Safari_search_tip seancorfield 2008-06-23T20:26:00-05:00 osx I updated Leopard to 10.5.3 this morning and ssh would no longer run, giving a Bus Error each time. A quick Google revealed the problem was actually the Instant Hijack component of Audio Hijack Pro and there is already a 2.8.1 update to AHP that fixe... http://corfield.org/entry/Leopard_1053_Audio_Hijack_and_ssh_crash seancorfield 2008-06-16T17:54:00-05:00 osx The latest software update for Mac OS X 10.5.2 adds Java 1.6.0_05 but does not change your default setup. See <a href="http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307403">this tech note</a> for more details. I haven't yet switched to Java 6 as ... http://corfield.org/entry/Java_6_just_arrived_on_Leopard seancorfield 2008-04-30T10:51:00-05:00 coldfusion j2ee osx Popular Mechanics has published a <a href="http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/reviews/4258725.html">very interesting comparison</a> of Apple desktop and laptop performance compared to equivalent PC equipment. In almost all cases the Mac outpe... http://corfield.org/entry/Mac_vs_PC__Popular_Mechanics_Review seancorfield 2008-04-16T17:31:00-05:00 osx Just discovered that my iPhone had stopped syncing calendars. It turns out that Tiger and Leopard store their calendars in different places and if you do a simple "upgrade" to Leopard (as I did), then iTunes gets confused and uses your old Tiger cale... http://corfield.org/entry/PostLeopard_Glitch_3 seancorfield 2008-04-09T22:38:00-05:00 iphone osx I like Spaces but I always like improving my workflow. A small utility called <a href="http://www.ksuther.com/warp/">Warp</a> does just that. It allows you to switch Spaces using the mouse, with a variety of options including modifier keys, clickable... http://corfield.org/entry/Warp__Making_Leopard_Spaces_Even_Better seancorfield 2008-03-31T00:50:00-05:00 osx It won't recognize my Verizon broadband card - or at least it won't connect. Network preferences show that it thinks the "Novatel CDMA" card has become an Apple modem (huh?!). Delete the network profile, re-insert the card, bingo! Auto-configuration ... http://corfield.org/entry/PostLeopard_Glitch_2 seancorfield 2008-03-29T17:02:00-05:00 osx wifi It won't recognize my iPhone. Google turns up lots of similar complaints. Solution? Download iTunes and re-install it. Weird but it works. http://corfield.org/entry/PostLeopard_Glitch_1 seancorfield 2008-03-29T12:53:00-05:00 iphone osx In Tiger, you could cmd-tab and then use the arrow keys to move back and forth between apps. In particular, you could run off the end of the apps and wrap round to the other end of the app list. In Leopard, you can no longer do this. If you're on the... http://corfield.org/entry/Another_Leopard_Annoyance seancorfield 2008-03-29T04:23:00-05:00 osx If you're planning to upgrade to Mac OS X 10.5, make sure you backup or move whatever you have in your /home directory before you start. You know, don't have your ColdFusion 8 install or your Eclipse workspace in /home. Like I did. Oh, I know, why /h... http://corfield.org/entry/Welcome_to_Leopard__Bye_bye_home seancorfield 2008-03-29T00:54:00-05:00 osx personal If you use Thunderbird on OS X and try to attach a Keynote presentation (or, I suspect, a Pages document or Numbers spreadsheet), the recipient will not be able to read it. Apple's iWork products use a directory to store the documents instead of a si... http://corfield.org/entry/Thunderbird_and_Keynote seancorfield 2008-02-17T00:46:00-05:00 osx The creative director at one of my clients just turned me onto <a href="http://macrabbit.com/cssedit/">CSSEdit</a>. It has a really nice user interface for working with CSS but the really cool thing is that you can view any site in CSSEdit's built-in... http://corfield.org/entry/Amazing_CSS_editing_tool seancorfield 2008-01-16T13:32:00-05:00 osx Some people were not very excited about Apple's keynote yesterday but the 1.1.3 firmware update for the iPhone is plenty enough for me, along with Google's updated mobile apps. I use Gmail a lot on my iPhone and one of my clients has standardized ... http://corfield.org/entry/Thank_you_Apple_and_Google seancorfield 2008-01-16T12:29:00-05:00 personal osx iphone hosted blogging A Leopard is in my future. I've been holding off upgrading to Leopard until Adobe (and others) have updates available to ensure compatibility. My financial controller (Jay) pointed out that it's year end and if I need any "last minute" software or ha... http://corfield.org/entry/Seeing_spots seancorfield 2007-12-28T02:36:00-05:00 coldfusion iphone osx personal