With every great OS comes great disappointment. Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion for the masses that don’t understand numbers), had many improvements and changes. Some were not so accepted. One such change was the elastic over-scrolling that exists in the iOS world. Commonly called “rubberband scrolling”, it activates as an overscrolling effect that runs out [...]
WARNING: Severe damage can be done while working in the root account! The root user is a super user account with high level system-wide access privileges intended for system administration, monitoring, and in depth troubleshooting purposes. By default, root user is disabled in Mac OS X for security purposes. If you do not have a specific [...]
If you’re a MobileMe subscriber. That service is closing down on June 30, 2012, which means you’ll be forced to transition over to iCloud in less than 60 days, whether you like it or not. If you are running 10.5 Leopard, Apple is easing the transition by offering a free installer DVD for Snow Leopard 10.6 [...]
Since the 4.3 version of Xcode on Lion, it no longer resides in the Developer folder in the root of your hard drive, but as an app in the Applications folder. It also no longer installs the Command Line Tools by default. This in turn breaks many of the dependencies of MacPorts. The first step to [...]
With prior versions of OS X, Apple included a “Reset Password” Utility that you could use to reset forgotten passwords for accounts on the system. But in the recovery options Lion, this is missing from the “Utilities” menu where it used to be. While the program is no longer available through the Utilities menu, it [...]
Serious issues have been found by many users since the release of 10.7.3 and 10.6 Security Updates. The 10.7.3 update has been pulled in favor of the combo updater, which does not seem to have the CUI error. And those with 10.6 that had updated to the recent security patch found themselves unable to run [...]
Apple just release an update to Lion, 10.7, that includes Safari 5.1.3. As it’s downloading I hope they have fixed the Wi-Fi issues and Safari issues like they claim to have done in the release notes. You can launch Software Update and get it that way. Or I recommend going directly to the source and [...]
