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February 17, 2010

The quest for a simple music player on mac OSX

I have to say this: looking for a simple music player for OSX is like searching for a needle in the middle of lots of big sticks; it should be easy, except the needle is under the carpet. Nevertheless, between trying out iTunes , Songbird , and a few other options, i have always felt like there should be something, you know, simple and memory efficient. (…)
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January 27, 2010

Things i wanted in Apple’s iPad (tablet)

Cool as it may be, i cannot but feel disappointed with Apple’s newest unveiling – the iPad:

No camera – Really? In this day and age of videoconferencing?!? What are you guys thinking?
No GPS – It does have assisted (wifi/3G) GPS but it’s not quite the same, is it? Especially when you don’t (…)
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August 24, 2009

Microsoft’s Entourage process name in OSX

They could have, I don’t know, used the name of the application as the process name. No? I’m just saying…

July 28, 2009

Changing default browser/email client in OSX

I always forget this, so I might as well write it down. According to Apple’s support pages:

Choosing another default email application

Open the Mail application (/Applications/Mail).
From the Mail menu, choose Preferences.
Click the General button.
Choose your default email client from the pop-up menu.

Choosing another default Web browser

Open Safari (/Applications).
From the Safari menu, (…)
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January 26, 2009

Recover iSync after removing it from OSX

One of these days, accidentally, I removed isync from my mac. After *a lot* of googling around I found this page that saved my life: http://www.feisar.com/isync_tips.html

Here are the steps. You can do one of 3 things to restore isync:

Restore iSync from your Time Machine backup (or any other backup you’ve (…)
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