It’s intresting to see that the new 27″ iMac is nearly as tall as the old 24″ model.

One of my favorite new features of Numbers ’09 is the contextual menu item “Convert to Header Row”:

Notice how the “Browse Songs” list just got much more usable: v2.0 v2.1

Say you installed MacPorts on Mac OS X Leopard (client) and now there is a new folder called “opt” in the root level of the startup disk. To make it invisible in the Finder (but not in Terminal), enter the following command in the Terminal: sudo SetFile -a V /opt Make sure to restart the [...]

I just updated my Apple TV with v2.0 of the software and I must say I’m rather pleased! Here are my top new features: The “Sources” switch is gone! If an iTunes source is online, all synced and remote contents are available simultaneously. When no external source is available then Apple TV just displays the [...]

Recently I wanted to copy parts of an HTML table from Safari to Numbers. Instead of getting an approximate copy where the HTML cells match the ones in Numbers, I got a list of all table cells in one column. Safari: Numbers: Strangely, when pasting table data from Safari to Excel – or Firefox to [...]

So I updated my iPod touch to v1.1.2 yesterday. Altough the only announced new features are “Bug fixes”, there are at least two new features. First, the battery status is displayed in the iTunes source list (when the iPod is connected, of course). Second, you can finally add or edit calendar entries. The next missing [...]

If you want to handle double-clicks in NSTableViews, be sure to check out following Q&A article from Apple: Debugging NSTableView’s “Action Invocation” binding. It saved me a lot of time.

If you are using mdimport and get the message Can’t checkin with server named com.apple.metadata.mdserver, then it’s quite possible that Spotlight’s metadata datatore is broken. To fix the problem run sudo mdutil -E /Volumes/MyVolume to erase the broken datastore. If the error occurred on a Xsan volume, it may be a good idea to unmount [...]