Tag Archives: osx

Missing menubar icons in OSX 10.6.2

Written by Richard. Posted on November 11, 2009. Filed under computing, mac. Tagged . No comments.

A whole load of menubar icons disappeared after installing 10.6.2. Seems it’s a problem related to me doing a small hack in the past to disable Spotlight. Steven Seeger’s fix restored the menubar to it’s full glory.

  sudo mv /System/Library/CoreServices/Search.{bundle,bak}
  killall SystemUIServer

Safari 4

Written by Richard. Posted on February 28, 2009. Filed under computing, mac. Tagged , . No comments.

It’s been a day with Safari 4 and I’ve yet to find a reason to switch back to Firefox. With it’s new developer tools, my discovery of FoxMarks for Safari and the Delicious Library bookmarklet I’m pretty much where I was with Firefox. The only thing I am currently missing is adblocking. I’m not sure if PitHelmet currently supports Safari 4, but Glimmer Blocker looks really good. It’s interesting that it works on the network level rather then as a browser plugin.

The Smell of a New Mac

Written by Richard. Posted on February 20, 2009. Filed under computing, mac. Tagged . No comments.

The new mac has arrived! I haven’t had a chance to really use it (that’ll all change next week) but wow is it a nice machine. I don’t need to gush over it as everyone knows how amazing these machines are. All I’ll say is my favourite feature so far is how cool all the available multi finger gestures are, not so cool is how obvious oil from your fingers appears on the black keyboard.

MBP

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

Oh yes.