Mac Fanatic

I think that the newly launched, free service (with 2GB storage) from Adobe, is likely to be a huge hit. Take a look here.

Geeky interlude: If you want to execute a process in the background in the shell, just append an ampersand to the end of the command. Most of the time this isn’t that useful, but the special appeal is when launch X apps from the shell. If you don’t append the &, the shell waits for [...]

Just wanted to let everyone know that my favorite feature from Camino has finally come to Safari! If you double-click on empty space in the Safari tab-bar, a new tab will be created. Yes, you could use Cmd-t or use the menu item, but sometimes I’m just right there with the mouse and that’s the [...]

This passage from a reader email pretty much nails it: Yes, it would make a difference if the checkbox for Safari were unchecked by default. Also, the “new installs” should be visually separated from the “updates to programs you’ve already installed”, and clearly marked as such. I’m all in favor of programs updating themselves — [...]

As described on the Latitude website: Latitude is a powerful, content-centered browser for Mac OS X Leopard and above. Its core functionality is designed to make your browsing experience as straightforward as possible, without the limitations and rusty mold of existing browser conventions. Today, we don’t parse hypertext, but watch videos, keep tabs on news, [...]

I spent some time this evening making some changes to the site that have been on my mind for awhile. With another project I’m doing, I was finally comfortable enough with MySql to tackle the blog. Now in the sidebar, are three more boxes with interesting data. First, there is a “What’s Hot” box that [...]

Slash Lane, from AppleInsider, wrote an interesting article detailing some anticipated issues surrounding the recently released beta of the iPhone SDK, allowing developers to get started developing apps that will run on the phone when the 2.0 release of the iPhone software is made publicly available as an update in “June”. Pangea’s Brian Greenstone says: [...]

There has been an annoying bug in the search feature of the site for several months now, but I just hadn’t had time to sit down and think about it to correct it. However, after spending my evening writing in Javascript for a class project, I sat down and fixed the bug in about 5 [...]

I’m still unsure how this blog got listed as a Knoxville Tennessee blog, but I’m rightly listed on the Knoxville News Sentinel list of local blogs, and evidently a few other sites as well. In a post from Knoxify, a site dedicated to building a community and “better everyone’s life” in Knoxville, Mac Fanatic was [...]

I recently had to make the decision to either renew my year hosting contract through Bluehost, or let the blog die completely. It was a difficult decision, as the contract is expensive and I feel like the site has certainly died down over the past several months. However, the time came to renew and I [...]