BBEdit Update- November 28, 2005 For those that have auto-update notification turned off, BBEdit 8.2.4 has landed.http://saladwithsteve.com/osx/2005/11/bbedit-update.html Fulltext search in Tiger Mail- November 16, 2005 So, does fulltext search in Mail.app 2.0.5 (OS X 10.4.3) work for anybody else Because it sure as hell doesn't work for me. Indexing Mail Messages is turned on in Spotlight prefs; I don't see any relevant options in Mail itself. From within Mail I can search for matches on From, To, Subject without difficult, but "Entire Message" mode yields nothing. Is this feature just brokenhttp://saladwithsteve.com/osx/2005/11/fulltext-search-in-tiger-mail.html Digging TextMate- November 15, 2005 I still remember being at CFP in 1996 and sitting behind some supercool geek who was using BBEdit to take notes. I imprinted immediately, and I was onboard with that wonderful application from 4.0 all the way to 6.5. Somewhere around 7.0, though, BBEdit began to lose the plot. Its transition to OS X had always seemed halfhearted, and all those buttons for generating HTML were looking very quaint. The menus and preference dialog had grown unwieldy, almost byzantine. To make a long story short,..http://saladwithsteve.com/osx/2005/11/digging-textmate.html PowerBook hibernation- November 12, 2005 Andrew Escobar has posted an informative page on enabling the new "Safe Sleep" mode that Apple made public (quietly) with the release of the latest PowerBooks.http://saladwithsteve.com/osx/2005/11/powerbook-hibernation.html Looking at Buying a PowerBook- November 11, 2005 John Gruber does an very detailed review of his newly acquired 15" PowerBook. If you are on the fence about a purchase, you might take a few minutes and give this a read. It might help.http://saladwithsteve.com/osx/2005/11/looking-at-buying-powerbook.html Sony's DRM kernel extensions- November 11, 2005 You probably read the recent news about Sony installing cloaked "digital rights management" (DRM) software on PCs. Well, Mac users don't have to feel left out any longer, because it looks like Sony discs also install DRM kernel extensions on the Mac. Swell. Of course none of this is a problem if you're just ripping audio, but if you're running some whizzy multimedia app from a CD, watch out -- especially if it asks for your admin password!http://saladwithsteve.com/osx/2005/11/sonys-drm-kernel-extensions.html LaunchBar 4.1b1- November 2, 2005 Launchbar cultists take note: 4.1b1 is out. New file manipulation commands, Spotlight integration, more iTunes controls, and even Tiger dictionary lookup.http://saladwithsteve.com/osx/2005/11/launchbar-41b1.html 10.4.3 Update- November 1, 2005 97 megabytes! Includes lots of fixes to lots of things.. And apparently we've got (or had) our own BSOD: Addresses an issue in which high ASCII characters in a password could lead to a blue screen at startup, or prevent log in.http://saladwithsteve.com/osx/2005/10/1043-update.html |