a great compilation of little things changed, enhanced or new in snow leopard over at Finer Things In Mac. our favourites: • option click on menubar items reveals additional information; • image capture’s enhanced scanning features, it detects separate objects and auto suggest if rotation is required; • open hidden files with ‘command+shift+period’ in the standard open dialogue; … Read more
in our quest to make our blog as accessible as possible, we have finally found time to implement pretty permanent links (=permalinks) on our self hosted (mac mini running macOS 10.5.8, client version) wordpress installation. as this turned out to be trickier than expected, we thought we share our experiences & the most helpful resources … Read more
graphisoft has posted upgraded wibu drivers (v 5.3) for compatibility with snow leopard here. despite the potential installation problems described here, we had no trouble at all.
we have been using AC12 on snow leopard without any problems so far. only major nuisance so far seems to be the dropped support for QTVR in quicktime X… workaround for the moment is to use quicktime 7. more information regarding compatibility & update to the wibu key driver here and a user discussion on … Read more
now that we have been able to dive right into snow leopard, here a brief overview of what we like most… event editing in ical… much easier than before, thanks to: ical > edit > show inspector expose all windows grid (sort ‘command+1’ alphabetically, ‘command+2’ by application) minimise windows into dock icon (system preferences > … Read more
apple has posted a list of known incompatible software, which snow leopard will not allow you to run here. some rather prominent omissions from this list are… ‘1password‘, which does not work with safari 4… however it seems to work with firefox 3.5.2; vectorworks 11.5.2 & 12.5.3 & 2008 sp3 & 2009 sp4… apparently an … Read more
at last snow leopard is out and we have a copy to play with – here some links, we found useful: before you do anything follow john gruber’s reflection on murphy’s law here. a more detailed review of the installation process and its requirements here.
for a preview on what the upcoming mac OS 10.6 (a.k.a. snow leopard) has to offer click here. some of the features we are most looking forward are the following: faster shutdown & startup reduced footprint saving approx. 6GB compared to 10.5 ms exchange support for ical & addressbook quicktime X video editing apparently, snow … Read more
UPDATE: just found a really good guide on how to clean the trackball without the need for disassembly… here. following up on our previous post on cleaning apple keyboards, we thought we follow up on how to get the mighty mouse shiny again… especially if you experience problems with the trackball. a good start are … Read more
Let us introduce you to our ‘mDEA > Sydney’ calendar, which aims to provide overview on what’s going on where & when in Sydney’s design community, which we hope becomes as valuable a resource for you as it has for us. — update 14/04/2013 Due to popular demand we have revived our Design Event Calendar … Read more