tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-71331362024-03-14T01:52:15.017-04:00Thoughts and RamblingsA collection of technology thoughts, commentary, reviews, and other ramblings ...Darren Mahaffyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03703005345579411495noreply@blogger.comBlogger41125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7133136.post-20882586514928323962012-07-27T11:08:00.000-04:002012-07-27T11:21:56.970-04:00Safari 6 - Appearance Pane Gone, No Customizing Fonts?Not sure if this is a gross oversight by Apple's WebKit team, or an intentional thing, but there's no way to customize fonts in Safari 6 unless you want to use a CSS stylesheet. You'll see from the screen grab below that there is no "Appearance" tab in which you used to be able to set fonts, sizes, etc.
Here's an Apple Discussion post on the topic:
https://discussions.apple.com/Darren Mahaffyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03703005345579411495noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7133136.post-24484066953101489632012-04-16T11:32:00.002-04:002012-04-16T11:33:33.668-04:00"Internet Slaves, Meet Your Masters" [Infographic]What do Google, Facebook, Zynga have in common? They are today's "online masters" according to a new infographic from onlinemastersdegree.com sent in to MacSurfer.
Created by: OnlineMastersDegree.comDarren Mahaffyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03703005345579411495noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7133136.post-859718191533000932012-03-02T12:41:00.001-05:002012-03-02T12:44:06.949-05:00Dear Safari Team....Safari used to be a great browser for my work at MacSurfer.
Once upon a time I was able to have a page open, hop up to my bookmark bar, click on a folder, run the mouse over to the contents of that folder, hold down the Apple/Splat key and click "Open In Tabs" and those bookmarks would open in new tabs WITHOUT REPLACING the existing tab(s) I had open.
In fact, I can't remember when that stoppedDarren Mahaffyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03703005345579411495noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7133136.post-65747308085427002612012-02-03T08:57:00.000-05:002012-02-03T08:57:23.016-05:00Apple Store Coming to Adelaide, S. AustraliaA longtime MacSurfer reader from Adelaide, South Australia, sent in the following tidbit to MacSurfer on Thursday:
"Apple Australia is considering opening their first UberStore in the state. Redevelopment of a large site in Rundle Mall, the prime retail area of Adelaide's CBD, means that a suitable location has opened up for an Apple Store. Overheard two days ago was a conversation between a Darren Mahaffyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03703005345579411495noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7133136.post-90577772438291430042009-04-28T13:19:00.003-04:002009-04-28T13:38:03.336-04:00Firefox 3.5 Beta and AppleScript - Still BrokenI have been holding out hope that Mozilla would, by now, have gotten its act together in fixing AppleScript for Firefox 3.0.x, and now up thru 3.5b.Unfortunately not the case.Things are a little different with the nightly builds; however, but still not up to snuff.The newest 3.5 beta release falls prey to the already documented (here, here, and here) AppleScript bugs introduced with 3.0. The Darren Mahaffyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03703005345579411495noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7133136.post-40329937308260606072008-12-09T10:31:00.003-05:002008-12-09T10:45:36.803-05:00Firefox 3.1b2 - AppleScript *STILL* BrokenI've been messing around with the different alphas and betas of Firefox, including FF3.1b2 released yesterday.Sorry to announce that Mozilla still has not fixed it. If you have no idea what I'm talking about, please refer to my previous posts where I detailed the problems here and here.This extends all the way to the Minefield nightly builds, and Shiretoko builds as well.Mozilla - PLEASE - fix Darren Mahaffyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03703005345579411495noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7133136.post-51578099551653229242008-07-21T12:49:00.006-04:002008-07-21T17:09:55.649-04:00From MobileMe to Google Apps: A Progress ReportIt is disappointing, the hassles facing MobileMe users, and I'm sure the team(s) within Apple are pulling their collective hair out trying to find resolution. And I'm sure Steve and the management team are not a little bit irked that this persists in the face of today's earnings report. There will be some shareholder angst to be sure.On a smaller scale, back in my days as an IT Manager, I recallDarren Mahaffyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03703005345579411495noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7133136.post-57952081440855212062008-07-16T13:14:00.003-04:002008-07-16T14:30:00.835-04:00MobleMe Continues to DisappointAs I mentioned in my last post, I've been an iTools/.Mac/MobileMe user since it was a free service. It has taken me, I guess, 8 years to come to the conclusion that it no longer meets my needs, therefore, it no longer justifies $110/yr.Some of you reading this will undoubtedly disagree finding MobileMe meets your needs and then some. That is great and I'm glad it works for you. For me the cost Darren Mahaffyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03703005345579411495noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7133136.post-72055254361637285102008-07-12T13:42:00.003-04:002008-07-12T23:05:53.657-04:00iCal & MobileMe or Google Calendar?Caveat: as for a lot of computing, preferences are entirely subjective. These are my opinions based on how I use iCal, Google Calendar. Your MO may be quite different from mine. That's okee-day. I happen to know there's a lot of folks pondering whether to keep paying the fee for MobileMe, or jump ship to free resources. Perhaps we can help each other out with some sage advice.------I've had Darren Mahaffyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03703005345579411495noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7133136.post-3549128551113552802008-06-04T13:10:00.011-04:002008-06-04T14:53:11.309-04:00Firefox 3.0 RC2 - AppleScript still broken, Safari 3.1.1 to the rescueI've got a confession to make. Safari 3.1.1 is a really good browser.Mozilla is losing me over this AppleScript issue with Firefox 3.0. Sure I use FF3 from time to time, but not for MacSurfer work or general browsing any more, unless I'm on my XP box, that is.In my previous post back in March, I placed Safari 3.0 at the bottom of my browser list and for good reason, 3.0 was not a good browser, Darren Mahaffyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03703005345579411495noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7133136.post-30846878979085752162008-03-14T14:56:00.007-04:002008-04-30T23:37:55.171-04:00Firefox 3.0bX and AppleScript - What's gone wrong?First off, I have to acknowledge that I should probably file a bug report, or something with Mozilla on this. But to be honest, I'm not sure it would do any good as there are so many outstanding AppleScript/Firefox bug reports out there. Shame on me for that attitude, but if you look at the bug reports you'll see enough unassigned, unfixed, unattended reports to take the wind out of your Darren Mahaffyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03703005345579411495noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7133136.post-58544641458959764612008-02-29T10:50:00.015-05:002008-02-29T22:54:22.554-05:00How To: Re-open Closed Tabs in Camino & Safari with AppleScriptRather than update my previous entry on this topic I decided to write a new one since much has changed.First I'd like to acknowledge Lisa Thompson for her AppleScript expertise, and code contributions. I have adjusted my scripts to use some of her ideas, with permission. As well, Lisa has some excellent AppleScripts for Camino, including her own rendition of the scripts you'll find here. WhileDarren Mahaffyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03703005345579411495noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7133136.post-26753306972795786502008-02-18T06:27:00.008-05:002008-02-19T11:09:46.474-05:00Camino, Safari - How-To: Reopen Closed Tabs (with AppleScript)Firefox has been my browser of choice for many reasons. First up on the list would be add-ons. I run several extensions, but my favorite - by far - is Tab Mix Plus. It allows you to freeze a tab preventing it's accidental closure. If you happen to close a tab and want to reopen it, you can - complete with the tabs history in tact.But Firefox has its own quibbles. Tab Mix Plus can slow thingsDarren Mahaffyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03703005345579411495noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7133136.post-84129852229268068692007-11-08T16:08:00.000-05:002008-12-10T11:14:37.273-05:0010.5 Gripe: Finder QuickTime Controls Gone?In Tiger (and prior iterations if memory serves) we had the ability to play Audio/Visual material within the Finder - MP3s, movie files, etc.There was the customary QuickTime bar with the volume slider on the left, next the play/pause button as the graphic shows.But Apple has decided in their infinite wisdom to take that away from us in Leopard.Here's a screen shot of a generic MP3 preview in Darren Mahaffyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03703005345579411495noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7133136.post-60485440906181874462007-11-07T11:27:00.000-05:002007-11-07T13:07:36.111-05:00Leopard Quick Look Tip: Increase Viewing Size of PDFsQuick Look is somewhat of a mixed "blessing" in Leopard.Some items are simply too small or small enough to be an eye-strain - such as Word, Excel, documents, etc.I was viewing a PDF and on a whim decided to try "Command +" and voi la, the text size increased accordingly."Command -" will decrease it.Unfortunately I've not found this to work with anything else.As well, I cannot do a Quick Look of Darren Mahaffyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03703005345579411495noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7133136.post-2827321764465798482007-11-01T16:36:00.000-04:002007-11-01T17:55:19.186-04:00Leopard: CAPS anomaly fixedUPDATE: It occurred to me that I had installed TypeIt4Me 3.2 this morning ... I feel like a jerk, but perhaps my faux pa will help someone else. A new feature in TypeIt4Me is "No DOuble CAps". Of course I assumed this was after an expansion, not in the typing of the expansion. Alas, it is in the typing, thus it has fuddled up CAPS in every app. Until I turned it off.So this entry has turned Darren Mahaffyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03703005345579411495noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7133136.post-11907721852276755272007-03-26T10:30:00.000-04:002008-12-10T11:14:39.190-05:00A Better Mouse Driver: SteerMouseSteerMouse is an alternative, fully-customizable application/driver for your USB or Bluetooth mouse.Price: $20 shareware, 30 days to tryI'm using SteerMouse with a Logitech VX Revolution.The included software with the Logitech VX Rev., is a joke. Logitech should be ashamed to put out such a second-rate app with such good mice. They should fix their software or consider bundling SteerMouse with Darren Mahaffyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03703005345579411495noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7133136.post-1167859820216999412007-01-03T16:30:00.000-05:002007-01-03T16:30:20.423-05:00Macworld 2007 - iTV, what it could beMacworld 2007 is coming next week. Steve Jobs is slated to give keynote on the 9th. Going to be a humdinger if Apple's site is to be believed.I am ready. Wow me, Apple. Go beyond the press hype. I hope you've sowed some disinformation out there that sounds incredible, but pales to what you'll actually unveil. Why misinformation? So I'm not depressed when the press once again over-hypes theDarren Mahaffyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03703005345579411495noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7133136.post-1154543877522916072006-08-12T12:19:00.000-04:002006-08-12T15:16:13.756-04:00Review/Commentary: Logitech V400 Laser MouseQuick Overview:Logitech V400 "Notebook" mouseDual Laser technology for more accuracy on more surfaces5 buttons: Right/Left, Scroll wheel button, Back/Forward button(s)Small 2.4GHz dongle, stores in mouse, also shuts mouse off when insertedAssuming that the best techno-devices are the latest and greatest, then in the world of computer mice, laser mice would be kings.Logitech is long a leader in Darren Mahaffyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03703005345579411495noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7133136.post-1116955373016890852005-05-24T13:22:00.000-04:002005-05-24T14:37:32.103-04:00Apple-Intel: Why not!?Yesterday I opined that the Apple-Intel news was (is) a smokescreen to cover for the sexual discrimination suit. One commenter agreed, but further stated the news is a cover up for the bad news in general - and that certainly has merit.Looking at the continuing saga of comments both mainstream press and bloggers are putting forth, I'm seeing a general direction that, while pro/con, is mostly conDarren Mahaffyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03703005345579411495noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7133136.post-1116856780104733312005-05-23T10:10:00.000-04:002005-05-23T10:11:20.360-04:00Apple-Intel: Smokescreen, Rehased Rumor or Reality?Well this news has the press in a tizzy:WSJ: "Apple Explores Use Of Chips From Intel For Macintosh Line" -- "The computer maker has been in talks that could lead to a decision soon to use Intel Corp. chips in its Macintosh computer line, industry executives say, a prospect that may shake up the world of computers and software." Quote via MacSurfer's Headline News.I couldn't help but wonder why Darren Mahaffyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03703005345579411495noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7133136.post-1113932627295911442005-04-19T12:50:00.000-04:002005-04-19T16:46:01.383-04:00Safari 1.3- Some stuff is broken, some better, some much betterSafari 1.3 is a new Safari. Very new. It has broken a lot of my scripts, or at least the content of the scripts as it seems that the new engine is not a slight difference from the old engine.First the good stuff.Speed. Huge improvement. I've not run benchmarks, but perception is that it is faster. On "old" problem sites like "http://www.chron.com" it no longer chokes. Safari 1.3 vs. Camino Darren Mahaffyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03703005345579411495noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7133136.post-1111018869629292632005-03-17T07:20:00.000-05:002005-03-16T19:21:09.636-05:00Ahhh, Camino...Skeptically, carefully and with reservation I stepped into the fray that is Camino. Actually, this is my second time giving it a try. But this time, I've been pounding on it, and wow, is it fast! A reader of one of my previous posts also suggested I try Camino. And try I have.Camino is an open source, gecko-based browser, which, according to the material on their web site, more closely Darren Mahaffyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03703005345579411495noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7133136.post-1110255308743755882005-03-08T07:38:00.000-05:002005-03-07T23:15:50.530-05:00Hauppauge! WinTV Pro / Mac & WindowsI've been in the market for a TV Tuner for my computer - either an internal PCI card for my Dell tower, or an external USB 2 model for the Mac.Today I picked up the Hauppauge! WinTV Pro PCI card from CompUSA -- for $19.99 after instant rebate! Doggone! I've seen nothing come even remotely close on the Mac side of the universe in terms of price. A PCI card is definitely going to be cheaper thanDarren Mahaffyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03703005345579411495noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7133136.post-1109979034561859572005-03-04T18:14:00.000-05:002005-03-04T18:30:34.566-05:00Safari, OS X Wierdness, Pop-ups/undersI probably shouldn't have let things get this far ... but then, what am I to do? :-)First a plea to Apple to fix Safari's pop-up blocking feature ASAP. I truly hope they see this nonsense as a hot issue. I rely on Safari everyday for the hundreds of sites I visit for my job, I feel like I'm using Internet Explorer (for Windows) again.Which brings up an interesting point. If you're running XP SP2 Darren Mahaffyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03703005345579411495noreply@blogger.com6