Shin
Jan
26

R.I.P. OS X Server

Oh come on Apple.
“macOS Server is changing to focus more on management of computers, devices, and storage on your network.” Whomever came up with that sentence should be fired on the spot.
OsX Server is changing in the sense that you could change a car by taking off the wheels, the engine, the exhaust, bash every window in and use the carcass as a planter.
No more mail server, no more dns server, no more web server, no nothing.
That’s another nice big fuck you to your customers Apple.

Anyway, seeing as this site runs on the same thing it means it’s time to look at alternatives and roll up my sleeves.

Mar
26

Time Machine automatic backups

Time Machine

I noticed Time Machine stopped making automatic backups, it would start ‘preparing’ but never actually making the hourly backup anymore. Took me a while to figure out what was causing it, so for future reference and anyone else who might have the same problem:

  1. Turn off Time Machine in the Preferences
  2. Delete /Library/Preferences/com.apple.TimeMachine.plist
  3. Turn Time Machine back on

(hat tip)

Dec
04

Mavericks Server

Finally took the plunge and upgraded to Mavericks, wasn’t sure how it’d go with the Server but I have to hand it to Apple, smoothest upgrade thus far.
After you upgrade the client to Mavericks you get a notice from the Server.app saying it needs updating. Download it from the App Store, launch it and it’ll automagically upgrade everything and after that everything was working as before. Nice.

So yeah, the only downside to the whole process is the name. Mavericks. Really?

Nov
15

Ahead of the curve

Where we’ll be going is transmitting this stuff electronically over the phone line… and we’ll go directly from computer to computer. And once we do that, maybe its possible to say, “Well we’ll give you 30 seconds of this program for free, or we’ll give you 5 screenshots, or we’ll let you play with it for a day. And if you want to buy it, just type in your VISA number and you got it. I don’t know how we’re going to do it, but we need a radio station.

Steve Jobs… in 1983. Like a boss.
The whole thing is an interesting read to see just how far ahead the man was thinking.

Apr
21

Mountain Lion on an older Mac

MLpostfactor

If you’re still stuck on Lion because your Mac isn’t compatible with Mountain Lion you might want to take a look at this project where people have created an app called MLPostFactor. It allows you to install Mountain Lion on pretty much any Mac that can run Lion. It’s still beta software and you have to know what you’re doing (which goes for most things in life) but it looks good, might have to give it a try on our old white iMac.

Apr
15

One emulator to rule them all

OpenEmu

Coming soon, looks sweet. Multiple emulators in one and a nice interface to manage the games.
For the brave or the impatient you can grab the OpenEmu source on github and compile it yourself.

Apr
06

Tekken Card Tournament

Tekken Card Tournament The Waiting Game

Yay, another freemium card game for the iPad.
Mini review: it looks like Tekken, is disguised as a card game, but is basically just rock, paper, scissors. With a non-working multi player mode. NEXT!

Apr
02

How to clear iTunes of all unused iOS apps

iTunes app cleaning

With so many apps you can try and discard on your iPhone or iPad you can get a huge library of them in iTunes as iTunes doesn’t delete them and keeps updating them even, and it’s a pain in the rear to have to manually go through them all to see which ones you use and which ones you don’t.

  1. Get rid of all the iOS apps in iTunes;

    2. Go to the app section in iTunes, select all, delete.

  2. Clear out any extra apps you may have;

    3. Quit iTunes and check the Music/iTunes/iTunes Music/Mobile Applications folder for any remnants.

  3. Re-import the apps from your iOS device(s);

    4. Start iTunes again and File>Devices>Transfer Purchases from (the name of your iOS device), repeat for any iOS device you have.

And of course make sure to make a backup beforehand in case anything does go wrong.

Mar
30

Winamp for Mac

Winamp for Mac

This month’s edition of hell freezing over; an official Winamp for Mac.
10 years ago, when I couldn’t stand iTunes and thought it was the biggest pile of crap compared to the Windows version of Winamp, I would have been so happy if this got released. Now, not so much. For one iTunes in its current version is a different beast, it works perfectly for me. And this Winamp version is very much beta, just a barebones player without any options, no eye candy and not exactly a pixel perfect interface. No equalizer either. It’s only 0.81, so there’s hope, but maybe it’s just too little too late.

Work in progress... not home!
Trying to get all/most of the new code working before I start on the eyecandy.