Firefox 1.5.0.2 released - Universal, incredibly
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The Firefox team has released their latest version, including a version for OS X, which is Universal. If you load it on your Intel-based Mac, you’ll see that it’s much, much faster. The browser loads and appears, ready to go, in one “bounce”. On my G5, it takes much more than that.

If you have an Intel-based Mac, download it now.

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Boot Camp users: We're stuck in Windows

Posted Apr 13th 2006 5:30PM by Dave Caolo?Filed under: Software, Troubleshooting

FROM TUAM.COM - Talk about a nightmare. Several Boot Camp users have logged on to Apple's discussion boards to share their horror story: The can't boot back into Mac OS X. Forum user TChi wrote:

"It all worked fine until I wanted to start up OS X. Then the startup screen never progressed. I actually left and came back an hour later and it was still just the gear thing spinning around."

There are at least ten other posts there that describe the same issue involving XP on a MacBook Pro via Boot Camp. A number of fixes have been posted, but (as of my typing this) a one-size-fits-all solution is yet to be offered. The lessons to be learned here? A.) Boot Camp is beta software B.) Carbon Copy Cloner is your friend and C.) Being stuck with Windows is your punishment for installing Windows (that last one was a joke)!

Seriously, if you've had a similar experience and have found a fix, feel free to post it here (or at Apple's discussion board). Your fellow Mac users will thank you.

My Take

HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!!!!!!

I know I said I wasn't going to post anymore articles about Windows on a Mac, but this was just too damn funny to pass on. My opinion? Everyone who's now having issues with this is getting EXACTLY WHAT THEY DESERVE! What? Did you think the Windows experience was going to be any more pleasant just because you put it on Mac hardware? And I realize that the issue isn't exactly with Windows itself, but rather Boot Camp, but still, it seems a bit like karmic retribution...



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Drag-and-drop disk image creation

By Rob Griffiths

You probably know that, using Disk Utility, you can create a disk image from any folder in OS X. Just as with applications you download, items on a disk image won’t be usable on your system until you mount the image. This can be a convenient way to archive older data, as you can compress the image, making it use less space. Items in disk images also aren’t indexed by Spotlight, which can be a good thing if you’ve got a backup folder that contains items with the same name as the originals—double-click the wrong one in Spotlight’s results, and you’ll be working on your backup copy instead of the original. You can also encrypt a disk image, making the data it contains safe from prying eyes.

Personally, I use disk images for quite a few things. Classic lives on a compressed disk image on my machine, and I make disk images out of game CDs—some, but not all, games will let you play them with the disk image mounted instead of having the original master CD in the drive. I also keep a FileMaker Pro database of passwords and other sensitive information on an encrypted disk image, so I can travel with it with some degree of security.

Up through OS X 10.2, there was a standalone application called Disk Copy that supported drag-and-drop disk image creation. Just drag the folder you wanted to convert to a disk image onto Disk Copy’s icon, and you’d get an easy-to-use dialog to set the name and options for your new disk image. With the release of 10.3, though, Apple merged Disk Copy into Disk Utility, and this ultra-convenient drag-and-drop tool vanished. Instead, you had to open Disk Utility, then select Image -> New -> Image from Folder, then navigate to the folder you’d like to use for the image. Ugh.

When 10.4 came out, I didn’t even think to revisit the process to see if anything had changed. Nor, it seems, did anyone else, for I hadn’t heard a peep about it since Tiger’s release. Until recently, that is, when a macosxhints reader submitted a tip—drag-and-drop disk image creation has returned to Disk Utility.

Just drag your folder onto the Disk Utility application icon—whether that’s in the Dock, the Sidebar, the Toolbar, or just in the Finder itself. Disk Utility will launch, displaying the image creation dialog. Set the type of image you’d like to create, and whether you’d like to encrypt it, and you’re set. Seldom do we see a feature removed from OS X make a return in a future version; it’s nice to see an exception in this case.



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