Tag Archives: mac

A Sad Day: Steve Jobs Is Gone

Posted on October 6, 2011 by Joey Gibson

It’s a sad day in the world. A visionary man has left us. Thanks, Steve, for all the great products that I use every day. I wish I could take credit for the sad Mac image, but I found it … Continue reading →

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Two Features To Make Lion’s Launchpad Perfect

Posted on July 24, 2011 by Joey Gibson

One of the features in Lion that I didn’t think I would like has become one of my favorites: Launchpad. This is essentially Springboard from iOS, but for the Mac. It’s a nice iOS-like view of your /Applications folder, that … Continue reading →

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My Lion “Clean Install” Saga

Posted on July 23, 2011 by Joey Gibson

Updated! Scroll down for the latest. I upgraded my 2011 Macbook Pro and my 2006 Mac Pro to Lion on Day 1. The MBP has had no problems at all. The Mac Pro, on the other hand, was acting a … Continue reading →

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OSX Lion To Lion File Sharing Not Working – How To Fix It

Posted on July 22, 2011 by Joey Gibson

After upgrading both my Macs to Lion on Wednesday, I discovered this morning that I can no longer mount shared folders between them. I tried going in both directions, and both failed with a very non-intuitive “Connection failed” message. I … Continue reading →

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Xcode 4.1 Not Installing? Try This.

Posted on July 21, 2011 by Joey Gibson

Apple released OSX Lion earlier today, but Xcode 4.0.2 is not compatible with it. Later in the day, they released Xcode 4.1 for Lion through the Mac App Store. I saw some comments from people saying that at about 80% … Continue reading →

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Make a Copy of the OSX Lion Installer BEFORE You Run It!

Posted on July 20, 2011 by Joey Gibson

If you’re planning on downloading OSX Lion from the Mac App Store and installing it on multiple Macs, heed my warning to make a copy of the .dmg file before you actually install it. I learned the hard way this … Continue reading →

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Google Chrome Sync Not Working? Try This

Posted on July 1, 2011 by Joey Gibson

I use Google Chrome exclusively as my browser on both Mac and Windows, and I pretty much love everything about it. One of the things I love most about it is the ability to sync most of your settings between … Continue reading →

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MiddleClickClose: New Home!

Posted on December 2, 2009 by Joey Gibson

For those of you who have been pining for a working 64-bit version of MiddleClickClose, your patience is about to be rewarded. A fellow called Tom has taken the MCC code, gotten it working with 64-bit Safari and has moved … Continue reading →

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MiddleClickClose Will Work With Snow Leopard But…

Posted on August 31, 2009 by Joey Gibson

12/02/2009 Update: MiddleClickClose has been updated for 64-bit Safari. More info here. I have upgraded my Mac to Snow Leopard, and as soon as I loaded Safari, I could see that MiddleClickClose was no longer working. I had already heard … Continue reading →

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MiddleClickClose Updated For Future Safari Versions

Posted on August 12, 2009 by Joey Gibson

08/31/2009 Update: For Snow Leopard compatibility, see here. Yesterday Apple release Safari 4.0.3 which, of course, broke MiddleClickClose. Again. The problem lies in the file Info.plist that is part of the plugin. From what I read about SIMBL, good practices … Continue reading →

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MiddleClickClose for Safari 4.0.1

Posted on June 20, 2009 by Joey Gibson

A day or so ago Apple released Safari 4.0.1 and bumped the version number in the process. Safari 4.0 was 5530.17, while Safari 4.0.1 is 5530.18. After installing the update, MiddleClickClose was still loading, even with the minor version mismatch. … Continue reading →

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ExportToArchive *Does* Work With iPhoto ’09

Posted on March 13, 2009 by Joey Gibson

I just installed the iLife ’09 suite, which includes version 8.0 of iPhoto. While I haven’t had time to try out any of the new features, I did check to see if my ExportToArchive plugin still worked. I’m happy to … Continue reading →

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Huzzah! MiddleClickClose Working In Safari 4!

Posted on March 5, 2009 by Joey Gibson

08/31/2009 Update: For Snow Leopard compatibility, see here. 08/13/2009 Update: It should now work with all future versions of Safari without having to update it again. Read about the change here. 06/09/2009 Update: Apple released the production version of Safari … Continue reading →

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No MiddleClickClose for Safari 4

Posted on February 25, 2009 by Joey Gibson

06/09/2009 Update: I thought I’d updated all the pages on my blog about MiddleClickClose, but I missed this one. It now works with Safari 4. Read about it here. At least, not yet. I installed the Safari 4 beta this … Continue reading →

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Objective-C 2.0 Properties Are Needlessly Verbose

Posted on December 28, 2008 by Joey Gibson

I’ve been working in Objective-C for a little while now; not quite two years, off and on. I was really excited when Apple announced that Objective-C 2.0 was going to have generated properties, but the syntax they gave us leaves … Continue reading →

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OH NOES! I’ve Lost My .emacs File!

Posted on November 14, 2008 by Joey Gibson

I was first exposed to Emacs back in 1991. It took me a while to warm up to it, but I did and I have been using it ever since. Once I started using it on a regular basis, I … Continue reading →

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Dear Apple: Some Java Love, Please?

Posted on October 24, 2008 by Joey Gibson

I love your machines. Truly, I do. Back in 1988 I bought a toaster-model Mac SE, with one megabyte of RAM, and I loved it. It only had a nine inch, black-and-white screen, and I loved it. For various reasons, … Continue reading →

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Problems With Latest Version of iTerm

Posted on September 12, 2008 by Joey Gibson

I love iTerm as a replacement for Terminal.app, but this morning after letting iTerm upgrade itself to “Build 0.9.5.0909″, all my settings, profiles and bookmarks were lost. I don’t know why, but that’s what happened. I pulled back the iTerm.plist … Continue reading →

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Chrome Is Cool, But No Mac Version Yet

Posted on September 3, 2008 by Joey Gibson

Yesterday, the internets were all a-flutter about Chrome, Google’s new surprise web browser. Sure, I downloaded it, like everyone else, and I was impressed by its rendering speed. I used it for a few hours without any problems at all. … Continue reading →

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Strange Firefox+Mac WordPress Admin Page

Posted on August 26, 2008 by Joey Gibson

Below is a screencap of what part of my WordPress 2.6.1 admin page looks like when I view it using Firefox 3.0.1 on Leopard. If you click on it to view it better, you’ll see the problem. The stats graph … Continue reading →

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