Posts catagorized 'Asides'

Jailbreak Your Second Generation iPod Touch

TUAW: You can now jailbreak your 2G iPod Touch. However, there is a serious caveat:
unless you are perfectly comfortable with using buggy development tools, installing some extra libraries and interacting in DFU mode, you really shouldn’t be attempting to jailbreak your device.

Since I can understand scarcely half of that sentence, I’m going to hold off [...]

Flash for Mobile Safari In the Works

Mac Rumors: Apparently Apple is ‘collaborating’ with Adobe to bring the later’s Flash runtime environment to Mobile Safari. So says Adobe, anyhow.
Personally, I’m indifferent to the prospect. Apart from the occasional video that I have to email to myself and watch when I’m back at my desktop, I haven’t been pining for Flash in any [...]

Choose Application in AppleScript Dynamically

Daring Fireball: Some AppleScript advice from Gruber. The idea is to target either the active browser or, incase nothing is active, the default browser from within the script. There’s some juicy bits in here for AppleScripters. Highly recommended read.

Terminal Commands to Kill Trojan in Pirate iWork Copies

Mac Rumors: If you’re into the iWork ‘09 for free thing, be careful.

Terminal Command: Show More Recent Places in Save Dialogs

OS X Hints: A terminal command to show more places in save dialogs. There’s some speculation in the post that the trick can work on a per application basis, but I haven’t tried.

Get Well Steve!

A Letter From Steve Jobs. Get well soon, Steve.

No Removable Battery in 17 Inch MacBook Pro

9 to 5 Mac with a startling rumor: 17 inch MacBook Pros, which are expected to debut at Macworld Expo in 2 days, will have a non-removable battery.

Instantly Create a Sticky Note from a Text Selection

Mac OS X Tips: to quickly make a new Sticky note, select some text and hit Command-Shift-Y. A new note will open up with your selection. Brilliant. The article has 10 tips for using Stickies, the little note application that I’ve completely neglected since I’ve used a Mac. Another interesting tip: stickies are not limited [...]

10.5.6 Upgrade and My Safari Woes

If you’re a regular reader of MacMembrane, you know that I’m a Safari lover. With Leopard 10.5.6, however, I’ve been forced to give up Safari in favor of Firefox. The problem lies in Safari’s new inability to maintain online sessions with web sites. In other words, Safari can’t seem to remember my passwords.
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MacMembrane Thanks GeezerButtz

I haven’t used MacTheRipper for a long time now, so I forgot about the amusing and most possibly legally impotent disclaimer that it throws at you on first launch:

For some more fun, I thought I’d check ‘About MacTheRipper’ in the application menu:

In any case, I’m ripping a Korean DVD that I bought from a man [...]