Tag Archives: OS X

Installing CS5.5 Master Collection on OS X Lion

Posted on January 26, 2012 by Walt Stoneburner

Installing Adobe CS5.5 Master Collection on OS X Lion and having the Installer hang? Here’s the solution. It isn’t pretty, but it works. Continue reading →

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Files Gone on Drobo FS with OS X Lion? Get ‘em back!

Posted on September 23, 2011 by Walt Stoneburner

Using DroboFS and OSX Lion only to discover that your Drobo shares have no content!? Yikes! But fret not, you merely have a small corruption problem brought on by the firmware, and in moments you can force a rebuild of that database and all your files will be back safe, happy, and sound with no data loss. Here’s how. Continue reading →

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Where’s my JDK?

Posted on December 24, 2010 by Walt Stoneburner

Caught in the Java depreciation battle under OS 10.6 and can’t find where the Java Development Kit (JDK) now resides? Here’s a command that will tell you, allowing you to still use InteliJ and other IDEs on OS X. Continue reading →

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Uninstalling Intego Software

Posted on December 11, 2010 by Walt Stoneburner

I’d rather eat an orange then brush my teeth with peppermint toothpaste than deal with cleaning up my system after using Intego’s software. If anything can bring the Windows reboot experience, coupled with the leaving of software cruft, to the Mac platform, this software does it in my opinion. Here’s how I finally got rid of it all. I hope. Continue reading →

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Competitors?

Posted on December 5, 2010 by Walt Stoneburner

An opinion piece: are Apple and Microsoft competitors? This line of reasoning says no. Continue reading →

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NTFS on OS X

Posted on November 14, 2010 by Walt Stoneburner

Trying to write to an NTFS volume on OS X, and all you find are third party packages and complicated config file manipulations asking you to reboot? Do this…. Continue reading →

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Found: The Best iPhone Development Book So Far

Posted on January 27, 2009 by Walt Stoneburner

Want to write your own iPhone applications but Objective-C, XCode, Interface Builder, and the steep learning curve of Cocoa getting in the way? Have I found the book for you. Continue reading →

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OS X Mail’s Strange Log Messages

Posted on January 1, 2009 by Walt Stoneburner

A while back I installed a pretty neat Mail extension called MailTags, which was used to tag mail messages with additional information. Cool concept. However, at the time the usage I was personally getting out of it didn’t warrant the … Continue reading →

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Invisible Drive on OS X

Posted on December 27, 2008 by Walt Stoneburner

The hard drive icon on my OS X’s Finder was no longer appearing on my desktop; here’s how I fixed it. Continue reading →

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