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 [...]
Over the holidays, I received an iPod Touch as a gift, and let me tell you, that little sucker is extremely useful as an internet device. Keeping tabs on my sites where I could find Wifi is great. However, a couple of days ago, it stopped being able to access the internet through my home [...]
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 [...]