Category Archives: mac

MBP

Written by Richard. Posted on February 14, 2009. Filed under computing, mac. Tagged . 2 Comments.

Oh yes.

LittleSnapper

Written by Richard. Posted on January 18, 2009. Filed under computing, internet, mac. No comments.

Normally when I come across something “beautiful” on the interwebs, I’d bookmark it in Delicious. The only problem is doing so isn’t entirely practical when looking for ideas or inspiration. Opening each site in a new tab and then browsing through them. No thanks. An alternative is to take screenshots of everything, but it’s just hassle keeping them organised and available somewhere. Problems be gone! LittleSnapper handles all your snapshots and makes it extremely easy to browse through past snapshots. It even knows what site each snapshot is from, so you can choose to visit if you wish to explore some more. It makes all your snapshots uniform and allows you to snap a whole page (even when it scrolls off the bottom), just a portion of a page and also the regular full screen and window variants. This is just another one example of an application that I wish existed on Windows.

New Macbook Pros

Written by Richard. Posted on October 15, 2008. Filed under mac. 2 Comments.

New Macbooks and Macbook Pros are extremely nice. Sadly no sign of the new monitors in the Regent Street Apple store.

Steve Ballmer on the Mac

Written by Richard. Posted on October 11, 2008. Filed under annoyances, mac. 2 Comments.

I’m very sensitive to exactly what mouse I have on my laptop. Can you find a range of choices? [for the Mac] Of course you can’t find a range of choices. You know, anyway — can you find the applications you want on the Mac? Well, you don’t really get full Microsoft Office.

- Steve Ballmer

Seriously, come on. Next he’ll be telling us how you can’t even right click on a Mac. It’s tiring enough to hear this sort of BS from everyday Windows users, but from the CEO of MS? *yawn*

Mac Spore Startup Freeze

Written by Richard. Posted on September 7, 2008. Filed under annoyances, games, mac. 26 Comments.

If, like me, Spore freezes on the splash screen when you start it up, with one running process and one non-responding one, then all you have to do is*:

  1. Browse to the SPORE application in Finder
  2. Right-click the spore application and select “Show Package Contents”
  3. In the new finder window browser into the the MacOS directory and move the “cider_noui” file away to another location, like your desktop.
  4. Launch Spore again and keep your fingers crossed.

I found this piece of information through MacRumors.

* I do not take any responsibility for any damage these steps may cause. You follow them at your own risk and understanding that they may cause further issues and that they not work in all circumstances.