http://blog.hardmac.com where no mac has gone before Sat, 02 Aug 2008 16:51:30 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en !$text$! http://blog.hardmac.com/archives/title So, mobileme... I really wanted to like it... the idea is good, it looks nice... but it seems to be .Mac all over again. I don't care about the issue of the "push" not being real push and taking 15' to propagate from my Mac to the "cloud". My problem is the sync ... http://blog.hardmac.com/archives/mobilemeh Are iPhone app devs getting a raw deal? - The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW): We mentioned yesterday a rumor that Apple won't cut a check for iPhone application developers until the dev's share of the sales tops $250. [...] From the (indie) developer's perspective, this stinks. They've already paid at least $99 ... http://blog.hardmac.com/archives/spot-the-idiot-the-unofficial-apple-weblog-on-the-istore-deal So, Dell decided that Vista suxx and they really wanted badly to have OSX on their machines. But, of course, Apple told then to go make an OS for themselves. And now, this is what Dell has come up with: Dell Dock Puts a Little Mac OS X Into Vista Studio Laptops: Sweet, ... http://blog.hardmac.com/archives/everybody-hates-the-dock-except-dell Newsweek.com: That photo of 11 weirdos in '70s clothes you may have seen on the Internet really is the original Microsoft team, snapped Dec. 7, 1978, on the eve of the company's move from Albuquerque, N.M., to Seattle. Almost 30 years later, a few weeks before Bill Gates's departure from Microsoft, ... http://blog.hardmac.com/archives/return-of-the-70s-weirdos So I went on a business trip for a week and I noticed on my way back that the soft plastic sheath of the magsafe cable on my MacBook Pro's power brick was desolidarising itself from the brick. The metal wires you (barely) see on the picture are not the live ... http://blog.hardmac.com/archives/kudos-to-apples-tech-support So here we are with a new iPhone killer... wait, the killer is late, its target is already dead! Samsung's Instinct was supposed to go snipe the iPhone, but Apple already sent it to rest, and now iPhone 2 is coming... Walt Mossberg on Samsung's Instinct: Also, the timing of the Instinct ... http://blog.hardmac.com/archives/spot-the-idiot-samsungs-iphone-killer Just came back from a serious beer session at the pool bar, which means I missed the WWDC Keynote. ...and I caught up on the news... my take? Forget about iPhone 3G, forget about GPS support and the AppStore... THE big thing? MobileMe. This is THE MOBILE COMPUTING dream everybody has been prophesying ... http://blog.hardmac.com/archives/iphone-3g-is-nothing 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 ... http://blog.hardmac.com/archives/how-i-saved-my-corrupted-time-machine-sparsebundle-image 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 ... http://blog.hardmac.com/archives/macosx-1053-update-fixes-time-machine-backup-of-apertures-library