Archive for the ‘Mac’ Category

Proteus 4.12 Released

Tuesday, August 9th, 2005

Whew! It’s been far too long, but Proteus 4.12 has finally been released. The release notes are too long to put here (and I can’t be bothered copying and pasting them over), so head to the site to see what’s new.

The Much Maligned Finder

Sunday, July 31st, 2005

There’s much bad press around about the Finder under Mac OS X. Probably the most common complaints about the Finder are in relation to either:

  • networking, or
  • previews, usually those in column views

The question many people ask is simply “Why is still still like this in Mac OS X today?”. This is, on the surface, a perfectly sensible question. After all, clearly Apple already knows about the problems: they use the Finder too, and plenty of people have complained about it over time. So what’s going on? Why hasn’t Apple fixed all this yet? (more…)

Killing .DS_Store on Network Volumes

Tuesday, July 26th, 2005

Mostly just a reminder for myself. A useful article provided by Apple: Mac OS X 10.4: How to prevent .DS_Store file creation over network connections.

Could be useful for those on a network with annoying Windows administrators who have to complain about something, and Macs dropping off .DS_Store files is as good a reason as any.