Adium 1.2 Beta Released. Remote Desktop Connection Client for Mac 2.0 (Beta 2) Leopard not ready for April--"Barely beta, not final or Gol. There have been a lot of rumors lately from "unconfirmed" sources about Leopard's expected ship date. For a while, everyone was sure it was going to ship mid-to-late March. Then mysteriously, the ship date (according to these anonymous sources) got shifted to mid-April—perhaps because we are already in late March. Oops. Developers who work closely with Apple have been dying to tell the world how very, very wrong we all are.
We have always maintained an air of skepticism regarding the early release speculations, but confirmation of these suspicions have been bombarding us lately. Our sources have told Ars that there is very little chance ("and that would be pushing it") for Leopard to ship in late April—that is, if Apple wants to ship with a halfway stable operating system. Our sources say that, from past experience, Apple typically ramps up production in the last six weeks before shipping with "many seeds—like two a week. " So can we expect a Leopard release in late April, for rizzle?
APPLE: 42 Reasons Normal People Can Switch to Macs - Valleywag. Apple Gadget.com : De jolis économiseurs 3D. A faster way to speed up Mail.app. As everyone knows, it is possible to get quite a speed boost out of Mail.app by stripping all the bloat out of its Envelope index, an SQLite database Mail uses to store senders, recipients, subjects and so on. In a past Hawk Wings tip , I suggested that quitting Mail, deleting the Envelope file and restarting Mail would force a rebuild that produces a leaner, faster email experience. In October last year Dallas noticed a faster way to get the same result and posted it in the comments to that tip.
And there it remained until I noticed that Shaun Inman (an iCelebrity and developer of Mint which counts the peeps on Hawk Wings) had noticed it. Here it is. 1. Quit Mail. 2. 3. Cd ~/Library/Mail sqlite3 Envelope\ Index An sqlite> prompt will appear. At that prompt, type vacuum subjects; . After a short delay, the prompt will return. 4. The first time he tried this, Rob Griffiths of macOSXHints reduced his Envelope index from 25.9MB to 4.5MB. It is easy to automate this using iCal and an applescript. Scripts to automate the Mail.app Env. Thursday’s tip about trimming the fat out of Mail’s Envelope Index for a leaner, faster Mail.app got a fair bit of coverage. Two readers liked it so much that they have produced applescripts to do the job. Sebastian Morsch has written a script that quits Mail, runs the sqlite commands and then relaunches Mail at the end of the process. You can get the script from his web site. “pmbuko” has written another, which does the same thing (modified as suggested in the comments below by Romulo — Thanks!)
: tell application “Mail” to quit set sizeBefore to do shell script “ls -lah ~/Library/Mail | grep -E ‘Envelope Index$’ | awk {‘print $5′}” do shell script “/usr/bin/sqlite3 ~/Library/Mail/’Envelope Index’ vacuum” set sizeAfter to do shell script “ls -lah ~/Library/Mail | grep -E ‘Envelope Index$’ | awk {‘print $5′}” display dialog (“Mail index before: ” & sizeBefore & return & “Mail index after: ” & sizeAfter & return & return & “Enjoy the new speed!”) Tell application “Mail” to activate Similar Posts: Automator World : Archive » Mail Vacuum. OS X Daily » What happens in the Mac OS X boot process? - Mac OS. Long gone are the days of OS 9, watching our Macs boot up with a series of extensions and control panels that we could always identify.
Today with the Unix underpinnings of OS X, many users are entirely unaware of what is going on behind the scenes. So what exactly happens during the Mac OS X boot process? A segment at KernelThread carefully lists the sequence of events, from start to finish. It is fairly thorough and worth a read. It is repeated below for the inquisitive Mac OS X users out there. Note: As a reader pointed out, PPC uses OF, i386 uses EFI You turn on your Mac, and this is what happens: Power is turned on.OF or EFI code is executed.Hardware information is collected and hardware is initialized.Something (usually the OS, but also things like the Apple Hardware Test, etc.) is selected to boot.
From here on, the startup becomes user-level: rc.boot figures out the type of boot (Multi-User, Safe, CD-ROM, Network etc.). /etc/rc.netboot handles various aspects of network booting. MalloxCast » 10 choses à savoir avant de switcher vers Mac OS X. EyeSight. Spanning Sync Blog. Easily Open .docx On A Mac. Top 10 OS X apps to supplement blogging.