Safari 3.1 Bookmark Syncing Bug on Mac OS X
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post from Daring Fireball on 10 April 2008 11:48:00 PM. © Daring Fireball

I realized earlier today that my bookmarks had stopped synching between Safari and my iPhone — changes on either side didn’t get to the other. Nothing I tried in iTunes worked. This KBase entry has the solution: nuke the “RegisteredSafariSyncClient” preference in Safari using the defaults command.

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Final Cut Pro 6.03 ships

post from MacNN | The Macintosh News Network on 10 April 2008 11:05:00 PM. © MacNN | The Macintosh News Network

Ahead of next week's NAB conference, Apple on Thursday released its updates to its professional vide...

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Forum roundup, WiFi, SMB

post from MacNN | The Macintosh News Network on 10 April 2008 10:50:00 PM. © MacNN | The Macintosh News Network

Forum roundup: MacNN forum members are discovering what encryption methods others use to protect the...

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Lightroom 1.4.1

post from Daring Fireball on 10 April 2008 10:05:00 PM. © Daring Fireball

Fixes some serious bugs in the 1.4.0 update, which Adobe pulled a few weeks ago.

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MacBook buffs AAPL

post from MacNN | The Macintosh News Network on 10 April 2008 08:35:00 PM. © MacNN | The Macintosh News Network

Due to stronger-than-expected MacBook shipments, J. P. Morgan Securities today raised its second qua...

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Google App Engine for Developers

post from Daring Fireball on 10 April 2008 08:14:00 PM. © Daring Fireball

Good overview of Google App Engine from Niall Kennedy.

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Video: MacBook Air Hacker Charlie Miller

post from Maxthemac.com on 10 April 2008 07:49:45 PM. © Maxthemac.com

Here is a follow up to the article we previously ran about the MacBook Air being hacked, in this[...]

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Mac OS Xs Search in Google Safari Tie-In

post from Daring Fireball on 10 April 2008 07:36:00 PM. © Daring Fireball

For the most part, if you want to use a browser other than Safari as your default, Mac OS X makes it easy. Safari’s preference window lets you pick any browser as your default, and most other Mac browsers let you make this choice in their prefs windows, too — so you don’t have to use Safari to specify, say, Camino or OmniWeb as your default.¹

Once you make this choice, everything pretty much works as you’d expect. Click a link in any other app and it’ll open the browser you’ve selected as your default. A notable and annoying exception, though, is the Cocoa text system’s “Search in Google” contextual menu item. This is a contextual menu command that appears system-wide. If you Control-click on a word or a range of selected text and choose “Search in Google”, the search is performed in Safari, regardless whether it’s your preferred browser (or even whether it’s already running).

Cocoa’s contextual menu “Search in Google” command, as currently implemented, does hook specifically into Safari’s Google Search feature: the terms you search for appear in the Google Search field in Safari’s toolbar. A simpler way to implement the feature would be to construct a Google search URL containing the terms and open that URL in the default browser. This would make the feature work equally well in all browsers — but would deprive Apple of a few pennies in Google affiliate lucre for each such search.

I use this command somewhat frequently, and whenever I switch to something other than Safari as my default browser, it’s the only tie-in to Safari that really irks me.²

Not Firefox, though. ↩
There are other Safari-specific tie-ins, like the way iTunes syncs Safari bookmarks, and only Safari bookmarks, with an iPhone. But that one strikes me as reasonable; I don’t expect Apple to parse other browsers’ file formats (although they do parse IE’s on Windows). ↩

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Conan OBrien - iChat Session Live!

Conan O’Brien is one of my favorite late night show hosts, he is a very talented funny guy. I[...]

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