Something that happens to me quite a lot is when I’m trying to type into the search box in Safari I accidentally type into the Address field, and end up going to latest-news-on-apple.com which of course drops out with an error. But when you think about it URLs almost never go in the search field [...]
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Search vs URL
January 25, 2008Sneaky BBC
January 10, 2008I’ve been enjoying watching catchup TV on the BBC online iPlayer, shows like Top Gear, Never mind the Buzzcocks and Lead Balloon. Since I have a Mac of course I can’t download shows like my WinXP friends can. But I have a secret weapon – Parallels! So after installing the downloadable iPlayer manager in WinXP [...]
Mac OS X Uninstaller
October 30, 2007Having just read John Siracusa’s excellent (as always) review of Leopard, I got thinking about one gaping hole in Mac OS X. An uninstall application/framework.
Apple’s Installer application and underlying framework is right up there, it’s easy to use, easy to create installer packages (and metapackages) for, easy to use and parse via the command [...]