There are various command line ways to determine whether your machine running Snow Leopard is running the 64 or 32 bit kernel, and also the ability for you to switch kernels. I have gathered all those ways into this GUI utility that will show you what kernel you are currently running, and it will... »
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Open, edit and save Microsoft Open XML formats (docx, xlsx, pptx) in Office 2003 or Mac Office 2004
So you have Office 2003 installed in a zillion computers and you need to open those new .docx/.xlsx/.pptx files? Find out how. »
git merge problems
When merging, ever get the error message: Error: Entry ‘foo’ is notuptodate. Cannot merge. Two possibilities: You may have local changes that are not committed (so commit them!) or undo those changes. You may have a file that has been modified, but the contents have not... »
Adobe AIR 1.5 released, what changed?
Adobe AIR 1.5 has been released today for Mac OS X and Windows. Linux is still at version 1.1. So what’s changed that I can see so far? I couldn’t... »
Quicktime on Safari – Question Mark
Ok, I don’t know what it is with my OS X install lately after installing OS update 10.5.4 but things seem to be broken left and right. Besides the... »
Mac OS X – Files won’t go in the Trash
Most likely your Trash folder is not owned by you anymore. To fix: Open Terminal.app, and type in the next 3 commands: sudo chown <your_user_name>:staff ~/.Trash sudo chmod 700 ~/.Trash killall Finder Technorati Tags:... »
Stressful blogging
The New York Times has an article about prominent bloggers being stressed out. Hey, just like a “real” job (not that theirs is not real of course). In their... »
VNC to OS X Leopard from Windows
Here are the steps: Download RealVNC Launch it Select the “Options…” button Select the “Full Colour (all available colours)” radio button in the “Colour and Encoding” tab Selecting any other colour level will make... »
Leaving Atimi
I have left Atimi Software Inc. after three years being there, for personal reasons. I loved developing for the Mac, and now is an exciting time especially with the... »
Linus Torvalds on Git, at Google
Linus Torvald’s talk at Google, about Git, a distributed version control system. I screen-captured his slides, and they are available for download or for view. I’ve been playing with... »
uif2iso on OS X
Keep getting an “invalid argument” error when using Luigi Auriemma’s uif2iso after compiling on Mac OS X? In a nutshell, you will have to use “fseeko” instead of “fseek”,... »
Cross-platform JNI (Java Native Interface) with NetBeans
Recently I had a programming challenge in that I estimated a feature for this Java application that needed to know whether a certain program was running, and if it... »
NetBeans for Ruby on Rails on Mac OS X
If you have NetBeans 6.0 and you want to use the bundled JRuby, you might as well get 6.0.1 if you want NetBeans to handle updating the JRuby Gems... »
Re-evaluating my Digital SLR
I have a Pentax K10D. It’s been a year since I bought it, and I love it — but I think its time to let it go and sell... »
The end of “once a day” blogging
Announcing: “once a week” blogging. Once a day in retrospect was too ambitious: the posts that came out of it were wasteful, they did not contribute anything except for glorified... »