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Seems like I’m keeping up my tradition of reporting bugs for Report-an-Apple-bug Friday late. Not to worry though, I did have a bug to report, even if it is obscure and mostly totally inconsequential. Shark seems to not record your hardware profile correctly when making a profile if you’ve got more than 2GB RAM. In…

Back at the Mac OS X 10.2 Jaguar launch event here I won a copy of Storm Music Studio. At the time the copy I won was version 1.5, but I got a free upgrade to 2.0 (thanks Arturia!). I’m not particularly musical so I don’t use it all that often, but I do enjoy…

Whew! It’s been far too long, but Proteus 4.12 has finally been released. The release notes are too long to put here (and I can’t be bothered copying and pasting them over), so head to the site to see what’s new.

There’s much bad press around about the Finder under Mac OS X. Probably the most common complaints about the Finder are in relation to either: networking, or previews, usually those in column views The question many people ask is simply “Why is still still like this in Mac OS X today?”. This is, on the…

Mostly just a reminder for myself. A useful article provided by Apple: Mac OS X 10.4: How to prevent .DS_Store file creation over network connections. Could be useful for those on a network with annoying Windows administrators who have to complain about something, and Macs dropping off .DS_Store files is as good a reason as…