Archive for May, 2008

How I saved my corrupted Time Machine sparsebundle image…

Thursday, May 29th, 2008, by moose

So I have a 500GB Time Capsule stuck somewhere in the house, to which all the Macs are backed up by Time Machine. Well, actually, my work MacBook Pro gets backed up on the TC’s internal hard drive, while all the other Macs (that’s one G5 iMac, a G4 iBook and a core2duo MacBook) are [...]

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MacOSX 10.5.3 update fixes Time Machine backup of Aperture’s Library

Thursday, May 29th, 2008, by moose

YES!
The 10.5.3 update to OSX finally fixes the problem where the Aperture Library would get backed up from scratch multiple times.
In previous versions of OSX, if you had Aperture open while a backup started, Time Machine would skip the Aperture Library until you closed Aperture. Then, the next backup would do a complete copy [...]

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Mac OS X 10.5.3 Update supposedly fixes problems between Time Machine and Aperture

Wednesday, May 28th, 2008, by moose

About the Mac OS X 10.5.3 Update:
Addresses compatibility issues with Aperture 2.
If it indeed fixes the problem where Time Machine would do a complete backup of your Aperture Library if you had Aperture open the last time Time Machine backed-up your system, then I’d be happy… this was really a pain… too bad Apple isn’t [...]

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Mac OS X 10.5.3 Update brings RAW support for more cameras [UPDATED]

Wednesday, May 28th, 2008, by moose

As Apple states in the update’s KBase page:
About the Mac OS X 10.5.3 Update:
Includes additional RAW image support for several cameras.
Well, it would be nice to know which ones.
[UPDATE]
Well, hot on the heels of the 10.5.3 update, here’s the Digital Camera RAW Compatibility Update 2.1 that brings RAW support for the following cameras:

Canon EOS Digital [...]

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Spot The Idiot: deface your iPhone with this Vista Skin

Monday, May 26th, 2008, by moose

VistaPerfection 2.0:

So, like, urgh, they even have the boot screen with ugly progress bar and all.
Hmm, maybe if they have been really good, they have managed to reproduce the slowness, the bugs and even the annoying UAC behavior (maybe the iPhone will ask you for your PIN code every time you want to make a [...]

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How to assign command-G to ‘Find Next’

Wednesday, May 21st, 2008, by moose

Betalogue » Blog Archive » Word 2008: How to assign command-G to ‘Find Next’:
Microsoft has decided that command-G shortcut should be assigned to “Go To…,” and they won’t ever change their minds. So you have to customize Word just to make it behave the normal way, i.e. use command-G as a shortcut [...]

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A Cure for the Excel 2008 EURO symbol bug

Friday, May 16th, 2008, by moose

So, I posted a couple days ago about a really annoying bug where Excel 2008 documents with celles formatted using the € currency get “converted” to $ when you close and reopen them.
Well, I sort of found a cure. A workaround really… Well, two actually.
1) Simply save your document using the .xsl format instead of [...]

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Spot the Idiot: I know why it took 4 years to complete Office 2008 for Mac

Thursday, May 15th, 2008, by moose

And so I continue my venture in the shadowy depth of Mac Office 2008, wondering whether I shall finally stay with the 2004 edition… not that it was great (it wasn’t, on an Intel machine), but the 2008 edition fixed almost no bugs from the 2004 version, and added a whole lot of new bugs.So [...]

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