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  • Wireless Encryption Protocols for Apple AirPort

    Part of the reason why maintaining a solid AirPort wireless connection is so difficult is the different number of wireless encryption protocols available today. WiFI Encryption Methods available on Leopard WEP – Wired Equivalent Privacy LEAP – Lightweight Extensible Authentication Protocol WPA – WiFi Protected Access 802.1X WEB – Port based Network Access Control

  • Leopard 10.5.3 update released

    Apple has just released Mac OS X 10.5.3 update and the changes are not earth shattering. Here is a list of changes in Leopard OS X 10.5.3 posted at Apple Support. Most important to me would be this one: “Addresses reliability issues when performing a full restore from a Time Machine backup.” [Hint: don’t install…

  • Alternative to Safari: Camino Browser

    A good alternative browser to Safari on Mac OS X Leopard is Camino. Camino is based on Mozilla’s Gecko engine, so it operates much like Firefox on Mac, but a hell of a lot quicker. Camino just released version 1.6.1 (May 20, 2008), which fixed stability and security issues from their last major release, 1.6,…

  • LED Screen Color Balance MacBook Pro

    In a follow-up to my previous post on the best laptop screen – MacBook Pro 15″ LED backlit screen, I’ve discovered why the laptop screen is quite different in displaying the same photo as compared to something like a Samsung SyncMaster 206bw which I use as my secondary display. It comes down to screen gamut…

  • Joining Split files on Mac

    With large files, sometimes it’s easier handling them split into many smaller files.ย  In order to rejoin the files one typically uses a file joining program.ย  I came across two that could possibly perform file joins: MacHacha and Split & Concat. Turns out that MacHacha has some issues, perhaps related to Leopard, as after reaching…

  • Why Apple is Selling More Macs

    Vista sucks. OS X rocks. Web Apps. Mac Bling. Mac at Last Gen PC Price. Bootcamp parachute. Points 1 & 2 are self-explanatory. 3. Web Apps People are no longer afraid of not being able to run their Windows apps because… nearly everything is becoming a web application. The only thing you need to run…

  • Best Laptop Screen – MacBook Pro LED backlit LCD Display

    The Best Laptop Screen available on the market is on a MacBook Pro “Santa Rosa” (named that for their use of the Intel Core 2 Duo chips using the “Santa Rosa” line, i.e. 2.2Ghz and 2.4Ghz speeds). Alright, that’s a bit of a strong statement. The Best Brightness on a Laptop Screen… is found on…

  • How to fix Ajax Error: uncaught exception: Permission denied to call method XMLHttpRequest.open

    Error: uncaught exception: Permission denied to call method XMLHttpRequest.open FireFox/Mozilla browser fix / solution: Go to address “about:config” in Firefox (i.e. type that in the address bar and hit Enter) Search for “signed” in the filter bar Double click the item “signed.applets.codebase_principal_support” to change its value to “true” Create (or edit if already present) the…

  • Movies Online – Find, Browse, Discuss, Review – Z Movie Club

    Z Movie Club, the sister site to Z Book Club (the online book club site) has been launched. Z Movie Club is an online movies club site where you can browse, find and discuss movies online with other movie fans. Z Movie Club is not a site where you can download films directly, but rather,…

  • mod_deflate gzip compression http/1.1 vs. 1.0

    If that title makes no sense to you, well… that’s good, cause you probably didn’t spend the last three hours trying to figure out why gzip compression is not working on Javascript files being served from your Apache 2.x web server. For those of you unlucky enough to understand what I’m talking about (and thus…