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Kernel Switcher for Mac OS X Snow Leopard
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... »
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 been changed. ie somehow the file was ‘touch’ed. Thus git... »
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 find any release notes (yet). For one thing, Flash Player 10 is now included. For the Mac, its at version 10,0,12,36. For Windows (XP), it’s at... »
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 trash issue in a previous post, Quicktime movies will not play in Safari – but they do play in Firefox. I updated to the latest... »