Macgasm

From iLife 08 to Office 2007

As I said in my introductory post, I live (proudly) as a Mac user in a Microsoft OS build and support center. And try as I might to convince the powers-that-be that it’s time to “switch”, I’m not getting a ton of traction on that front. So, I’m unfortunately left with having to live between [...]

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Fixing Spotlight’s issues

After reading Josh’s post about his spotlight woes, I IMed him and  offered a solution.  If spotlight is being a complete pain in the ass, go to Terminal (or Finder if you have hidden files shown).  Find the .Spotlight-V100 file in the root “/” volume of your Mac.  Type in “rm .Spotlight-v100″.  This will remove [...]

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iPhone Firmware 1.1.4 is Released

I’m in the midst of the upgrade so that I can tell you what it changes once I’ve had some time to play with it. There is speculation out there that is suggesting that this is only a maintenance update for the soon-to-be-in-our-hot-little-hands SDK. I’m here to assist you in your hype-filled afternoon.

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Macgasm Tuesday: Early Edition (With Update!)

Executive Order Number 1: You never, ever wait until Friday to talk about something as monumental and earth-shattering as shiny, new hardware spurted forth from the bowls of Cupertino. Never, ever. As such, Macgasm Friday becomes Macgasm Tuesday, pushed out on the heels of Apple's announcement of new design. "Of what?" you ask. Read on, dear reader.

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Spotlight is a database and databases get broken

I think I should start a new blog category for things breaking on my mac.  I’m probably the most unlucky mac user known to man.  If it’s breakable, it’s probably broken on me, if it’s not breakable it has probably broken on me.  I’m not your typical mac user, I just break things that shouldn’t [...]

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