Install/Upgrade to Leopard in Target Disk Mode

jhm – Mon, 2008 – 08 – 25 09:11

Earlier this year I was faced with the challenge to upgrade a Mac Book Pro to Leopard, the machine in question would not read the Leopard DVD, however. What to do, go back to the Apple store and lament the oddity?

Well, fortunately I had a second Mac Book Pro from work which I upgraded prior and which could read the DVD just fine, which also told me that the DVD media itself wasn't to blame.

I remembered that you can hook up two Apple computer, using the disk of the other computer by booting it in Firewire Target Mode. Doing that I was able to use the DVD drive of the computer that was able to read the Leopard DVD media and kick off an installation on the disk in the other computer.

Newton Virus

jhm – Thu, 2008 – 03 – 06 09:57

This totally reminds me of the Amiga ...

iPhone sensory deprivation

jhm – Sat, 2008 – 02 – 09 20:30

After having had an iTouch for a couple of months, I couldn't deal with the regular cell phone user interface anymore (I caught myself swiping over the display to make my phone book scroll on my Motorola SLVR).

Barak Obama's Speech in New Hampshire

jhm – Tue, 2007 – 04 – 03 14:16

If you want to get an impression about Senator Obama's eloquence and Humor and Charisma, check out this video of a speech he gave in New Hampshire. Among other things it explains the origin of the title for his book, Audacity Of Hope.

Dictionary Shortcut

jhm – Sat, 2006 – 11 – 11 08:42

Researching about Mac OS X Tiger keyboard shortcuts I found something nice on the Mac OS X 10.4 wiki.

Mail and keybord shortcuts

jhm – Sat, 2006 – 11 – 11 08:16

was looking for a way to Toggle Mail.app's preview pane from the menu or keyboard. The link gives instructions of what needs to be done. Now I just need to get it to work on Tiger w/o Quicksilver

update
I used Mail Act-On with a specific Rule to accomplish what I want.

Change AppleHighlightColor for Preview.app

jhm – Thu, 2006 – 08 – 10 10:00

Recently I got annoyed using the find feature in the Preview.app and not being able to see the found strings easily.

JavaScript Debugging in Safari

jhm – Wed, 2006 – 08 – 02 14:05

Trying to accomplish serious web development with the Mac OS X Safari browser is hampered by the fact that Javascript debugging is not available to the level possible with Firefox and, lets say, the FireBug extension.

Wake On LAN for OS X

jhm – Thu, 2006 – 07 – 13 09:08

Recently there was an interesting discussion on a work related mac-alias how to actually use the Wake On LAN feature on Macs that support it.

SMB/CIFS sharing

jhm – Sat, 2006 – 05 – 20 18:51

Every once in a while I need to copy files between my two Macs, and usually I use the CLI for this, but sometimes I choose the Finder->Connect To Server to mount my home directory, so I can browse and drag-n-drop files between computers.

Today I "discovered" that the feature to share your home directory via SMB has to be enabled per user.