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Faces in iPhoto

A while back, I was delighted to find out about the face-detection/recognition system in Picasa Web Albums. It's really good... (More...)

Six free Mac apps

There's this company/organization called MacHeist that, every so often, provides a bundle of half a dozen commercial Mac applications for... (More...)

Disable guest accounts in Snow Leopard!

It appears that some users of Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard are losing all of their data after logging... (More...)

How to find MySQL in Snow Leopard

Just discovered that in Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, the directory /usr/local/mysql no longer exists. Which means that if... (More...)

Keyboard shortcuts for AppleScripts in Snow Leopard?

In Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, the keyboard-shortcuts system has been enhanced in various ways. But now I can't... (More...)

AppleScript autoresponder in Snow Leopard's Mail.app

Last year, I tried to create an autoresponder for Apple's Mail.app, but ran into problems. Now, in Snow Leopard, I've... (More...)

Imaginary places and computer names

My theme for computer names has always been imaginary places. At some point I'll do a more detailed writeup of... (More...)

"Genius" vs. simple problem

Stopped by Apple Store this morning to get MacBook fan repaired or replaced. Was told that it would take them... (More...)

Broken fan(?), broken email, semi-broken computer

For the past couple days, my computer has been doing something unfortunate: it suddenly powers off. No warning; just suddenly... (More...)

Task management software for Mac

I meant to write up a bigger and more comprehensive post about this, but since there's a time-sensitive aspect, I'll... (More...)

Bizarre computer behavior, wacky Comcast behavior

A couple hours ago, I plugged in my iPhone to sync it to my computer. A series of iTunes dialog... (More...)

Forthcoming Macs and iPods

There are rumors and other indications that Apple will be releasing upgraded Macs and iPods in late September. So if... (More...)

Mac Buyer's Guide

It's always frustrating when you buy a piece of hardware (such as a computer) and then an upgrade/revision appears on... (More...)

Posting from iPhone

I got an iPhone! It is way cool. And now I'm going to sleep.... (More...)

iPhone, Mac OS X 10.4.10, and kernel panics

I heard something yesterday that may put the kibosh on my plan to buy an iPhone tonight: Using iPhone with... (More...)

Mac TSA PSA

I forget whether I mentioned here that the main page of the TSA website crashes Safari. If you're using Safari... (More...)

MacBook display artifacts (drop shadows)

One of the few things that I'm very dissatisfied with on my new MacBook (yes, the one that arrived from... (More...)

Google Video for Mac

Google Video Player is now available (free) for Macintosh. Which also means that Mac users can now purchase copy-protected videos... (More...)

Toy!

I'm posting this from my brand new sleek black MacBook. Exciting! Pretty! Shiny! Some initial impressions: Some things are really... (More...)

It shipped!

My new MacBook hadn't shipped as of yesterday, so I promised myself I would stop compulsively checking the order-status page... (More...)

MacBooks again

And congratulation of a different sort to Jenn, who bought a new MacBook! (And needs help naming it.) I too... (More...)

Lay on, MacBook!

I'm sure most of you who care know by now that Apple has released its latest laptop: the 13" MacBook,... (More...)

Beware of new Mac malware

There's a new piece of malware aimed at the Mac. There has been a great deal of debate over whether... (More...)

Curly quotes

There continues to be tremendous confusion among some SH submitters over the distinction between curved (or slanted) quotation marks and... (More...)

No more PowerBooks...

Steve Jobs has just announced Apple's new laptop computer: the MacBook Pro. Two Intel processors inside; 15.4" LCD (up to... (More...)