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  • Block Flash Ads with Whitelist on Mac / Camino Browser

    Blocking Flash in Camino has been an On/Off affair until recently. Camino browser had implemented the FlashBlock software directly into its browser, but unfortunately, it didn’t have a whitelist where you can specify sites to allow Flash to run. So you either blocked Flash from all sites or no sites. Although this is still the…

  • Is your Mac Safe, Secure, Private and Protected? Little Snitch can help.

    ย My solution to keep Mac OS X protected from trojans and other nasty Internet virus related problems is an easy to use, easy to understand firewall software: Little Snitch. Having a virus attack your computer and render it useless is annoying. Having a trojan install itself on your computer and send out your sensitive personal…

  • XMLHttpRequest permission denied fix – Salesforce.com Ajax Toolkit

    Update: This post has been superseded by How to Fix Ajax Error: permission denied to call method XMLHttpRequest.open. For anyone developing S-controls and applications for use in Salesforce.com, developing directly within their platform is a bit of a hurdle. Using their Ajax Tools Development Environment for quick changes is fine. But, developing a serious piece…

  • Play HD mkv Movies on Quicktime in Mac OS X Leopard

    Have an .mkv movie file? Wondering what the heck it is and how to play it? High Definition movies in 720 or 1080 pixel width format are often encoded and packaged as a Matroska format video with a .mkv file extension. Apple QuickTime doesn’t handle this format natively so you have to add a package…

  • How to use command line debugger fdb to debug Flex / Flash on Mac OS X

    Debugging Flash / Adobe Flex 2 / ActionScript 3 code using fdb on Mac or Windows is not exactly a straightforward affair. The following are instructions on how to get fdb running for debugging flash files and how to debug flex through the command line tools. Preamble: Verify that you have a debug capable version…

  • Play AVI DivX codec Movies on Quicktime in Mac OS X Leopard

    Quicktime under Mac OS X Leopard can’t play movie or video files saved in .avi format encoded with DivX format without a little help. Also if you get no sound from avi files on your Mac, the following avi audio codec will solve that problem for you. Here’s what you need to make Quicktime on…

  • Fix Blue Tint Wake from Screensaver Mac / Macbook

    Ever wake your Mac from screensaver and find a bizarre blue tint or blueish tint to the display screen? The blue tinge can be fixed or removed by opening up Display Preferences (from System Preferences Panel, Second Row [Hardware] => Displays). Simply opening the Displays preference window reverts the color profile to the last good…

  • How to use Mac OS X Leopard Spaces Efficiently

    Mac Spaces is a great feature that allows you to virtually have dual, triple, quadruple monitors (or more) on your Mac. Mac Spaces works by creating desktops where you can place program windows, allowing you to organize your running programs and open windows into logical “groups” or “themes”. An easy way to imagine how Spaces…

  • No Space Left on Device Error

    In a follow up to my post about how to dual boot Tiger and Leopard on your Mac, this post is about removing large (unnecessary) files from your hard disk and recovering disk space on your hard drive before attempting to repartition Macintosh drives and dual booting. Many folks have been noticing that repartitioning disks…

  • Use Camino Browser to Block Ads

    Hate animated Flash ads while browsing? Get Camino. Go to Preferences, Web Features, Block Flash Animations and voilร , no more Flash based animated ads. Without Flash Ads With Flash Ads I’m not sure about you, but I like my Jolie with as little extraneous distractions as possible. I’ve mentioned the block flash ads feature with…