News: “Working on a Mac, Day 4″

Posted: July 2nd, 2009 | Author: Rex | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , | No Comments »

Working on a Mac, Day 4 on fullasagoog.com full roast blend
Topics: MacBook Pro, Apple Disk Image, MacBook

The Good: The screen on the MacBook Pro is bright and the dot pitch is low enough that it doesn’t bother me at all. Text is very, very pretty. Most of the software I’m used to on my Ubuntu machine works on the Mac,…


News: “10.5: Make the DiskImageMounter icon appear in the Dock”

Posted: April 16th, 2009 | Author: Rex | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , | No Comments »

10.5: Make the DiskImageMounter icon appear in the Dock on MacOSXHints.com
Topics: DiskImageMounter, IBook, Apple Disk Image

Personally, I can’t stand double clicking a disk image file (.dmg) on the Desktop and not getting instant notification that the disk is being mounted. This is probably not as much of a problem on newer, faster Macs. However, depending on how many…