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The stripes in 10.2 and earlier were awfully bold. I think the appearance of OS X has been steadily improved. Except maybe for iTunes. I still think the newest iTunes look is a bit off (though I was never a fan of brushed metal).

Here's the script I use to re-enable Folder Actions when they stop working:tell application "System Events" set folder actions enabled to false set folder actions enabled to true end tell tell application "Folder Actions Dispatcher" tick end tell I recommend putting it in your...

Since you already know how to set up outlets and actions, this should be simple. First, set up a new outlet (let's call it "myfield"), and connect it to the text field. Then just do something like this:[mylabel setStringValue:[myfield stringValue]];

I use a similar method to cwanja's. I put a folder action on my downloads folder that changes the modification date. The problem with folder actions is that they are flaky -- even more in Leopard than in Tiger, in my experience, and Tiger was plenty flaky to start with. I've found that the "on...

I did not get any LiveCDs to work, probably because all there seem to be issues autodetecting video cards on iMac DVs. I installed Debian and after a lot of failed attempts have managed to get X working. For anyone else having similar problems, here's my xorg.conf file in its entirety: #...

It looks like that's outdated. If you follow their link to download OpenSuse it will tell you "Sorry, the PPC version is available on DVD and for network installation only." I can't find a PPC LiveCD on their FTP site. It doesn't look like Gentoo or Rock Linux offer PPC LiveCDs of the versions...

Are there any good Linux LiveCDs for PowerPC? I know Ubuntu used to have one, but the PPC version isn't officially supported anymore, and even the community-supported PPC version doesn't have a LiveCD for the more recent versions. I'm also looking for something lightweight enough to run on a...

I don't think you can resize your OS X partition while you're booted from it. So you'll need a boot CD. If you don't have your OS X CD, you could use some Linux tools instead. I think the Debian installer can resize partitions (though I can't recall ever trying it with Mac partitions). You...

What video format is the movie currently in? Is it already MPEG2 (DVD) video, or are you relying on iDVD to convert it? You could try Explicit. It's a very bare-bones AVI splitter. The nice thing about it is that it's lossless and fast -- it really just cuts the data in two at a point where...

I'm not sure if this is supported with Windows 7, but with other OSes with Guest Additions, you can change the resolution to anything at all by resizing the VirtualBox window. There's an option in the Machine menu, I think. Can't remember what it's called off the top of my head. I've used it to...

There's REALbasic. It's a lot like Visual Basic, but better (IMHO). I used to be a big fan, although I don't use it much these days. It's close enough so that porting apps from Visual Basic to REALbasic is fairly easy. There are other RAD tools as well. Back in the old days of System 7, I loved...

If you're comparing the same kind of processor, than the 2.14 is faster. If you're comparing different processors, then maybe not.

If there's a browser out there that doesn't leak memory, I haven't found it yet. I don't usually quit as much as every day, but I frequently see Firefox up to 200-300MB after a while. Amie, if cookies are the problem, you can clear them without making a new profile. Just go to the Tools menu...

I've sometimes noticed Firefox become mysteriously slow in one aspect or another, and the simplest way to fix it is to create a new Firefox profile. You'll need to import your old bookmarks and adjust all your preferences for the new profile, but it might be worth it. To make a new Firefox...

There's a very handy system add-on called Afloat that lets you make any window in any application floating. I use it for exactly this purpose occasionally.

This happens occasionally when you unmount a disk ungracefully (like with a crash). The folder now named SECUREDVOLUME is most likely just an empty folder. You may remove it, rename it, delete it, etc. With it out of the way, the next time you mount your TrueCrypt volume it should default back...

'root' is the all-powerful user account in Mac OS X, Linux and other Unix-like OSes.. It's normal to have quite a few background programs running as root, with names like login, mds, update, cupsd, pmTool, just to name a few of the standards.

442MB! And that's not even the Combo updater. Speaking of which, here's the URL: http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/apple/macosx_updates/macosx1057comboupdate.html

The Worldwide Developers Conference is in June. I think they usually announce details of a new OS a while before they actually release it. So maybe they'll preview Snow Leopard at WWDC and set a release date for a couple months later. Or maybe they'll spring it on us. If Snow Leopard really is...

Does that mean Snow Leopard is expected soon-ish? I haven't heard a timeframe since in a while, and the last one I did hear is long past. I'm getting tired of not buying a new computer until I know more about Snow Leopard. :p Not that my 4-year-old Mac Mini doesn't still do its job, but...