My MacTech July 2013 articles

Article 1: Using telnet to troubleshoot TCP/IP services

Article 2: An Introduction to Drupal

Article 3: Using VirtueMart for Web Payments

Article 4: The Mac OS X 10.8 Log Files

A good desktop...

2nd Time Machine backup

Mac App Store: 6 Jan 2011

Mac OS X 10.7 (a.k.a. Lion)

Mac OS X 10.6.3

Is Snow Leopard coming earlier?

10.5.8 is out

Mac OS X 10.5.8 is out.

Please let me know if you have any problems with it.

WWDC 2009 thoughts

We are pretty close to Apple's WWDC 2009, and, for the first time, I am really very anxious about it.

Here are some of my thoughts about the forthcoming WWDC 2009:

• I really want the official release of iPhone OS 3 for many reasons: official Greek language support and new APIs. I have some ideas and I would like to start programming ASAP!
• I would also like new iPhones to be announced and, preferably, to be immediately available. I want to get an iPhone and it would be nice to get the latest one.
• It would also be nice if Apple announces when Snow Leopard (a.k.a. Mac OS X 10.6) will be available. It is said that it would be faster than Mac OS X 10.5 which is a nice thing :)
• I do not really care about other hardware announcements (apart from the iPhone...) although I think that new iPods may be announced.

10.5.7 update is here!

I am downloading the combo update – I always prefer the combo version as I find it a more reliable way to update Mac OS X.

Build 10A261 of Snow Leopard

Read more about Snow Leopard here.

Mac OS X Security Configuration Guides

You can find the Mac OS X Security Configuration Guides here.

For Leopard, Tiger and Panther!

Time-Machine related info

"A little-known fact about Time Machine is that it depends on the MAC address of a computer to tell one system from another. This means that if you have your Mac repaired with a new logic board, or replace your system with a new one, you can't resume backups where you left off. If you know of the problem, though, it's not very hard to fix. You need to re-pair the backup to the new logic board's MAC address. Further complicating matters is the ACL which prevents you from changing the system ID information."

Read the rest of the story here.

Mac OS X 10.5.6 Update is on its way!

According to those two posts (link and link), Mac OS X 10.5.6 is on its way.

Benefits from reading the "Programming Dashboard Widgets" book

• Learn how to create Dashboard Widgets
  
• Demystify Dashboard Widgets
  
• Debug Dashboard Widgets
  
• Learn useful tools
  

You will also learn:

• the basics of MySQL
  
• the basics of Shell programming
  
• some UNIX topics
  

Every chapter has a rich Bibliography based on the presented topic.

My opinion is that by reading the eBook you will become a better Mac OS X user and programmer.

The eBook describes how you can create Apple Dashboard Widgets using many programming languages including JavaScript, Perl, Objective-C, and PHP. You can buy it here.

Mac OS X Advanced System Administration v10.5 (Apple Training)

Edward Marczak, the editor of MacTech magazine, is the author of the book Apple Training Series: Mac OS X Advanced System Administration v10.5 (Apple Training).

Rumors about the next version of Mac OS X

Ars Technica as well as macrumors.com have some unofficial information about the next version of Mac OS X.

Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) may be an Intel-only release that will be presented (beta version) at WWDC 2008 and released at MacWorld 2009...

By the way, Ars Technica is a great site!

Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X, 3rd Edition

The 3rd edition of the famous Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X, by Aaron Hillegass, is out.

You can find more information about the book here.

Mac OS X Architecture

Did you find the above information helpful? You will find a lot more information in my eBook "Programming Dashboard Widgets". You can buy it here.

RAW CPU Power

I was reading Apple Pro profiles and I made the following thoughts:

I currently have more CPU power than Walter Murch when editing the Cold Mountain movie. He had dual-processor Power Mac G4s and I have a dual-processor Power Mac G5!

Sooner or later I will have more CPU power than Bill Frakes currently has.

And I probably have more CPU power than Apple when building Mac OS 10.3 (a.k.a. Panther)...

What does this mean? It means that we should stop thinking about having more CPU power and learn how to use the machines we have in a more creative way. We should try to write more efficient code, create more efficient workflows and think more before doing something.