Google. Aperture. Entourage. Fixing rsync on MacOS X 10.4 (Tiger) Starting with MacOS X 10.4 the included version of rsync has been made HFS+ aware. This means that when files are copied from a HFS+ file system to a volume of some other type is it able to preserve the Extended Attributes (including the resource fork) that have been applied to the file. At least that is the theory. Unfortunately the version of rsync that ships with 10.4 (at least up to 10.4.3) is far from ready for production use. Apple's "enhancements" to rsync have introduced several bugs when using extended attribute support, some simply cause rsync to crash, while others are more subtle, and may not be obvious to the user until they need to restore from their backup and find that things aren't quite as they should be. Rather than go into great detail about the bugs and problems that I encountered and my attempts to fix them, here is a short list of the things that should be addressed when using this version of rsync with the --extended-attributes option flag: Downloading Installing.
OpenMacGrid. OpenMacGrid Quick Links What is OpenMacGrid? OpenMacGrid is a computing grid built up entirely of Macs, and open to Mac-using scientists everywhere. OpenMacGrid is based on Apple's Xgrid technology, which comes pre-installed with every copy of Mac OS X 10.4 (and later). OpenMacGrid brings the spare cycles of Mac users together with the computational requirements of Mac researchers. Projects that harvest the spare cycles of commodity hardware are nothing new. It all began with SETI@home, and there are now multitudinous different causes that you can donate your computer's idle time to, from protein folding to relativistic physics. OpenMacGrid is different. Donate Your Mac's Spare Cycles Donating your Mac's spare cycles in the interests of scientific research requires no more than a few clicks in the Sharing pane of System Preferences. Monitor OpenMacGrid Activity with Dashboard Utilize OpenMacGrid in Your Research.
GrApple - Aronnax`s Firefox Themes. Must-have list of Mac OS X apps. The Tao of Mac - Applications. Disk Order. Disable Dashboard. Dashboard is OS X 10.4’s new “always ready” utility application. When you hit F12, Dashboard springs forward, dimming the background, ready to provide you a wealth of information on everything from airline flights to currency conversions to stock prices—and much, much more if you install some of the hundreds of third-party Widgets that are already available. But all of this power comes at something of a price—mainly increased RAM consumption from open widgets, even if Dashboard itself is closed. Look at the screenshot below and pay attention to the Real Memory column.
That figure represents how much actual RAM each Widget is using—even though Dashboard itself wasn’t opened when this image was captured. If you have a Mac with limited RAM, you may wish to disable Dashboard to deny yourself the temptation of these oh-so-handy Widgets. There may be other reasons you’d rather not have Dashboard available. Open Terminal, and then type this command, followed by the Return key: killall Dock. MacUpdate. Top 10 Shareware. A lot of great software has been released since we did our first article. Emily Hambidge takes a few moments to highlight ten of them. For those of you who are loyal MacZealots readers, you will remember that last year we ran an article about the Top 10 Shareware applications of 2004 .
The article went over so well that we decided to do it again this year. With the release of Tiger there has been a great deal of third-party development recently. Although Macs are great straight out of the box, third-party developers are the glue that holds Apple and its customers together. Developers continue to create freeware and shareware applications that allow Macs to perform at their very best. I chose this list using the following criteria: - no price limit was set, but as you read you will notice that no program cost over $70. . - no developer had more than one program selected and the selections cover a broad range of user needs Additionally, all of these applications offer free trials. Ecto TextMate.