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Leopard’s Broken FolderActions facilities

May

2008

One of the best features of Mac OS X is a feature called ‘Folder Actions’. What this feature allows the power user to do is to watch a folder on the computer and whenever that folder receives a file, folder action kicks in and runs a script of the user’s choosing. I’ve used this feature ...

Another useful feature is gone missing in Leopard 5

Nov

2007

Yet another useful feature has been eliminated in Leopard. The audio controller that the Finder’s column view had for the preview pane when previewing audio files has been eliminated. Why? I don’t know. No logical explanation can come to mind. In Tiger, if you set your window’s view to the column view and point it ...

Leopard 10.5.0 problem spots

Oct

2007

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 ...

Leopard’s translucent menu bar

Oct

2007

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 ...

Apache PHP and Mysql on Leopard

Oct

2007

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 ...