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Configure a Mac Mini server mid 2011 with a thunderbolt connected Promise Pegasus R6 array as a fast MySQL server

There is a problem with the Facebook ‘Like’ button on Safari

Now that HD-DVD has officially lost the HD format battle, and Blu-Ray has emerged the victor, many Mac sites are speculating that Apple will soon implement Blu-Ray playback support into its system and start selling Blu-Ray drives in its computers. I’m not sure Apple will implement Blu-ray playback into OS X any time soon. One [...]

With Leopard 10.5.1, Apple’s developers changed the default status of html files downloaded from the internet from ‘safe’ to ‘Unsafe’. While this may make sense from a security standpoint, for somebody like me that processes hundreds of html files downloaded every day, it’s a big annoyance. I filed a bug with Apple, asking for a [...]

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 [...]