I’ve been using Leopard as my only OS for 4+ days now. Here is a first report on where I’ve encountered the most problems. Safari: I spend a lot of time with Safari (can’t use any other browser as my main browser). It’s the only Apple application that I use so extensively. So far I’ve [...]
One of the ugly new interface “features” of Leopard is its translucent menu bar. In my opinion it’s ugly, distracting and serves absolutely no useful purpose. I have no clue why any sane person at Apple would want to implement it. There have been many complaints about it on the internet since Leopard reached people’s [...]
Leopard brings one big change to web developers working with Apache, PHP and Mysql on the Mac. Apache 2 comes with Leopard along with PHP 5. Here is what to do to restore a test environment. First, you need to enable PHP. Apache’s .conf file moved from /private/etc/httpd/httpd.conf to /private/etc/apache2/httpd.conf Open this file with your [...]
Well, I finally took the plunge. After yesterday’s problems installing it on my iBook, I took all the precautions that I can and took the plunge and installed it on my iMac. Steps: Buy a 1 TB drive from Costco. Plug it in and realize it’s dead. Exchange 1TB drive at Costco. Plug it in [...]
Well, after my first attempt at installing Leopard by doing a normal ‘Update’ on the previous system, I couldn’t get the Finder to respond, no matter what I did. I changed strategy and re-installed by doing an ‘Erase and Install’. ‘Erase and install’ worked perfectly. It took about 45 minutes to install from scratch, excluding [...]