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Tiger Talk. If you saw Angela's post from Friday night, then you probably figured out that we did get the upgrade to Tiger installed on her eMac, and you probably know how much fun she was having with Dashboard widgets. It was a pretty painless upgrade, and once she went to bed Friday night, I… Continue reading Tiger Talk

Fixing Ruby on OS X Tiger. Apple has done a great thing by including Ruby 1.8.2 in OS X 10.4, but unfortunately they stumbled just as they were to cross the finish line. Tiger has some deficiency that prevents it from installing native extensions properly. But there is quick room for remedy. You can either… Continue reading Fixing Ruby on OS X Tiger

Upgraded to Tiger. I just upgraded my PowerBook to Tiger tonight and so far so good–everything just runs (I did the “upgrade” path as opposed to starting fresh or doing the “archive and install” option) including Dreamweaver, Eclipse, and even JRun/CF. The Dashboard widgets are really slick, the Mail improvements are very nice, and Spotlight… Continue reading Upgraded to Tiger

Tiger/Safari In-Browser PDF Viewing. This may seem like a minor feature, but I absolutely hate PDFs. (No offense to our future Adobe overlords.) The new in-browser viewing of PDFs in Safari is really nice and greatly reduces my negative feelings about PDFs. If you click on a PDF link on a web site, it loads… Continue reading Tiger/Safari In-Browser PDF Viewing

Tiger: Spotlight and EXIF. According to Apple, Spotlight is supposed to be able to index EXIF data. Unfortunately, none of my JPEGs’ EXIF data has been indexed. Even worse, some of the Spotlight metadata fields are obviously bogus, showing obvious bugs in Spotlight’s implementation. Update 2: It’s definitely a two-pass thing. After leaving my laptop… Continue reading Tiger: Spotlight and EXIF

E-Mail on Phones: Just a Bad Idea. Mobile e-mail will be a deadly mistake for enterprises thinking it will boost productivity and help connect with sales prospects. [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service]

Build Your Own DVR. prostoalex writes “If you have an old computer that had been laying around for a while and are ready to spend a bit on hardware to make into a Digital Video Recorder, this article from Make magazine contains a step-by-step guide on building one. The author spent $150 on TV card… Continue reading Build Your Own DVR

Blair loads Lords with new peers. LABOUR will become the dominant political force in the House of Lords in the next parliament when Tony Blair creates 16 new Labour peers. [The Scotsman]

Tiger day. Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger is out today. Amazon says my preordered copy is “shipping soon”, the bastids.I think this is a very important OS release, but not necessarily for any of the user-visible features available right now. Spotlight is an obvious good thing, sure. (And the Finder finally won't have to poll… Continue reading Tiger day