Saturday, September 29, 2007

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  • Discover More Menubar Goodies

    As I believe is useful from time to time, LifeHacker is calling for your menubar submissions. Take a screenshot of your menubar, explain all the apps you’ve got running there, and submit to the good folks at LifeHacker.

    My suggestion would be to keep track of that thread for the results of the submissions. I think it’s the best way to find great new utilities and applications that you may have somehow overlooked in the past. I’m willing to bet everyone finds at least one item listed that they weren’t previously aware of.

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  • My New Vintage Hardware - Can Leopard be installed on an 800MHz machine?

    iMac G4I have a vintage 800MHz iMac G4. There, I’ve said it, and wow, does that sound strange and unpleasant to me. I love my iMac - remember those commercials where it stuck its ‘tongue’ out at the guy on the sidewalk? - and I was very excited to hear, initially, that I could put Leopard on it. For a lot of people, these original-looking iMacs were their first sip of the Apple kool-aid: exciting, different, classy, with a form that looked like nothing else around as well as being ridiculously useful. (Pivoting, tilting monitor - yes please!) The version I have, when it first came out, was the top model for the iMac, and ones like it still command a solid 200 to 400$US on eBay.

    So when Apple decided that Leopard would only officially support 867Mhz or higher machines now, I was heartbroken. I’m not alone here, either. The owners of the 800MHz flavors of iBook, PowerMac G4 (Quicksilver and Titanium), and eMac also now are the proud possessors of officially-vintage hardware.  These are not, for the most part, considered to be slow or obsolete machines; granted, they’re not as screamingly fast as the new Macs, but they’re still reliable and steady.

    However, I noted that Apple made this decision because the installer ran too slowly, which makes me wonder. Also, earlier dev builds ran on machines like these, if slowly. If I’m willing to let it sit for an hour or so, can I still install Leopard on my iMac? I know I’m not the only one that’ll be wondering, either.

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  • Unlocked iPhone Users Beware

    iPhoneIt appears that Apple may have been telling the truth about unlocked iPhones and the software update not playing nice together. Jonathan Seff over at iPhone Central shares his tale - in which even a new SIM card couldn’t resurrect is iBrick. Even though some Apple Geniuses may be quietly unbricking iPhones, I have to say I still don’t think it’s worth it. I’d ride out my contract and then pull the trigger (unless you’re with Sprint - then I can totally understand wanting to get out).

    What about you TAB readers? Has anyone successfully updated with an unlocked iPhone? Here’s your opportunity to brag!

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  • 10.4.11 Updates?

    With September ending, and Leopard effectively promised for October, the 10.4.11 ‘fix list’ keeps piling up. That I know of right now, it supposedly should cover: CUPS, VPN and L2TP, audio bugs (Core Audio and .m4a), AFP server issues, USB devices, networking fixes (again), BSD and interlock timeouts, and all kinds of ‘enhancements.’

    I know that I, at least have a couple of machines that are not going to be running Leopard ever - they just can’t hack it. They’re fine for their purpose, lab machines all, but they don’t meet system requirements for Leopard and never will. I have only three machines - my Macbook Pro, my G5 Powermac, and a G4 iMac - that can, in fact. Accordingly, I am much more interested in Tiger updates than Leopard. I’ve seen all the reviews and feature lists for Leopard already.

    Here’s what I’m hoping for in 10.4.11:

    • Playing .ogg, .wma, and .flac without extra plugins or conversions.
    • Not crashing G4 machines when a Samba share goes missing. (Elegant disconnects.)
    • Pie in the sky, but - an icon editor/replacement app?
    • Reliable time from a network timeserver running on a Windows machine, because there’s nothing like locking an Active Directory password because Kerberos is being cranky.
    • Better interoperability with Active Directory - companies are not going to be switching to Leopard on a large scale yet, and fixing this in Tiger is the way to go.

    What do you hope to see?

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