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Some of the newer "book" Macs are supporting what Apple calls "Safe Sleep" and other systems call hibernate. Safe Sleeps allows you to be able to reboot to where you left off even if the battery dies or you remove a battery. According to this article it can also be done on some desktop machines. This is a hack and may not be safe to do to your Mac.
Ok, I don't report much on MacWorld, Mac Home Journal or MacAddict. (Or Mac Forum for that matter.) They are all at least decent magazines that do provide information about Macs. Personally, I think that MacWorld under Jason Snell has gotten much for useful for the average user than it used to be. I still enjoy MacAddict's attitude as well as find it useful. The others have some good information at time. This article is the kind of article I used to expect from MacAddict, but it is from October 2001 and is from MacWorld. It talks about installing RAM, processor and hard drives into a CRT iMac. (Read More)
In this blog, Rael Dornfest, who contributes to O'Reilly Hacks, tells us how to fix it so that drop down menus in forms on the Internet actually work on the Mac instead of being skipped. Read the details
A very interesting read. This is the original first chapter of a book called: "OS X Internals: A Systems Approach". Since the book was on OS X, he had to revise the chapter to exclude other operating systems that influenced the Mac and preceded it at Apple.
The author says:
"the book itself is super-detailed on the internals of modern day Mac OS X. It is not at all a book about using Mac OS X- it is about the system's design and implementation. Therefore, I expect it to appeal to all operating system enthusiasts and students." He also provides a link to the Amazon page. Get the free chapter
WebGrabber is a utility that can be used to mirror, copy, synchronize, download, scrub or "steal" a web site. Download entire web sites and even spider off of there. Download an entire directory of images without being able to "see it" (i.e. no ftp access). Use it for ftp downloads, it'll even split downloads across sessions and resume downloads. Get your copy
I just realized how much I have been brain washed. I saw "Great Keynotes" and thought this would be templates for Apple's presentation software. Instead, it is a collection of keynotes at various Mac shows around the world. There are ones when Mac OS 8.6 was the greatest OS ever. There is even the one with "Big Brother" Bill Gates at Boston MacWorld Expo. If you download, you should make a donation to help cover the bandwidth. Insanely Great Keynotes
Last week, Sun Microsystems Inc. announced that its had a fiscal fourth-quarter loss of $301 million even though it had an increase in revenue 29% to $3.83 billion.
Get the MP3 or Realplayer conference call file (Interestingly, they call the files Audiocast, not Potcast) (Read More)
Tom Yager make the point that WWDC is not a per rally, but a place for people to learn about Apple's direction so that they can make more money as developers. He is looking forward to leaning about how Apple is running a mix of 32 & 64 bit applicattonis. How various parts of the new Macs will be explained to the developers. And of course all about Leopard. ... see the full story...
From the OpenDarwin project web site:
"OpenDarwin was originally created with the goal of providing a development environment for building and developing Mac OS X sources as well as developing a standalone Darwin OS derivative. OpenDarwin was meant to be a development community and a proving ground for fixes and features for Mac OS X and Darwin, which could be picked up by Apple for inclusion in the canonical sources. OpenDarwin has failed to achieve its goals in 4 years of operation, and moves further from achieving these goals as time goes on. For this reason, OpenDarwin will be shutting down."
It is sad to see these kind of projects stop. They have promised to make it a gradual shut to make it as painless as possible. (Read More)
I had seen this video before, but wasn't able to provide a link. It is a video of MacOS X coordinated with a voice over of Bill Gates talking about Windows Vista.
(Note this page also has links to Steve Jobs talking about Microsoft and once again that Bill Gates, "Big Brother" presentation at MW Bostn. www.youtube.com
This O'Reilly article talks about a whole bunch of OpenSource applications. Many of them we have mentioned in the past, but there are some new ones here. GNUMail, the up-and-coming competitor to iCal is Mozilla's Sunbird; Lightning is trying to tightly integrate Sunbird into Thunderbird, MPlayer and MacTheRipper. There is more, but this should give you a taste.
Richard Huggins of Tyler MUG wrote to say he had considered Vonage also, until he found out that Vonage says "You cannot port a toll-free number to Vonage." He also pointed out a recent MacWorld article that looked at the investment side of Vonage.
"The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain."
- Dolly Parton
"Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it."
- George Halas
Have a great week... (See last week)
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