Archive for the 'Apple' Category

Focus-follows-blog

Friday, April 25th, 2008

Though I share some traits in common with the grizzled UNIX hacker, I have never been fond of focus-follows-mouse. Even so, this investigation into why it doesn’t work on OS X is a an interesting (though nerdy) read.
I don’t understand why you’d need to switch window focus when Emacs is the only app open.

Apple does the right thing, fixes aluminum keyboard caps lock issue

Monday, April 21st, 2008

The new firmware for Apple’s aluminum keyboards does the right thing. When you change your Caps Lock key to be Control (or some other modifier), the (undocumented) accidental press prevention is disabled. This is perfect, exactly how it should have been from the start.
I can now stop complaining and use Apple’s keyboards again.

Recovering a lost Mac OS X password

Monday, April 21st, 2008

Some of the other guides I’ve seen are inaccurate and didn’t work very well for me. This did.
You can change your account password, but you cannot change your keychain password. Your login keychain has the same password as your account, which you lost. You have to delete it. You’ll lose everything in it. Sorry. Consider [...]

That’s good, that’s bad

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008

On the iPhone:

In Safari, tapping the menubar at the top of the screen scrolls you to the top of the page.
In any other app with a tall scrollable area, tapping the top of the screen does nothing.

Mac OS X Blue Screen Of Mild Inconvenience

Wednesday, April 9th, 2008

I’ve had intermittent problem with my MacBook Pro (2.4ghz Santa Rosa) tinting the entire screen blue after waking from sleep. It seems to be fairly common, and fix is reasonable simple. I hereby dub this problem the Blue Screen of Mild Inconvenience.
I just realized that it didn’t happen at all until I re-enabled the “Require [...]