Sometimes in OSX, you get a situation where the thumbnail image for a particular image in the icon/coverflow view doesn’t get generated properly. There is a tool you can use right on the command-line to add a finder icon to an image file. sips(1), along with the “-i” flag, or the “–addIcon” getoptlong flag, works [...]
Category Archive for 'Apple'
Why defragment your Mac OS X HFS+ drive? (or not?)
Posted in Apple, BitTorrent, geek on Jul 5th, 2007
A few weeks ago someone over at forums.mactalk.com.au posted a thread on the forum regarding the necessity and/or validity of defragmenting his hard-drive. He didn’t cite Apple’s official stance on the fragmentation issue and he more importantly didn’t give us any insight into the kind of average disk utilization the target hardware underwent before [...]
Well it appears that someone has already dissected the iPhone. The good people over at anandtech.com have provided a dissection of the iPhone and a set of images. The phone looks pretty interesting inside. Take a peek yourself:
http://www.anandtech.com/printarticle.aspx?i=3026
Over on the site switched.com, they wrote an article back on the 25th of this month with several reasons to not buy the iPhone. Personally I believe those reasons are mostly bunk. Here is the text from an email response I gave to a relative of mine.
Read this article first:
http://www.switched.com/2007/06/25/five-more-reasons-not-to-buy-the-iphone/
Enjoy.
Interestingly enough. each of these excuses [...]
Hack the iPhone - An Axiomatic Postulation.
Posted in Apple on Jun 12th, 2007
While I was composing the last post, I thought of a way one could break out of the Safari sandbox. Due to the fact that Apple is certainly considering using Flash as an available media we can make some leaps of faith here.
The following axiomatic postulation is partially based upon the following Adobe produced [...]