Archive for November, 2007

The IT Room

November 11th, 2007 by Kurt Wolf

I have been patiently waiting for the release of “The IT Room“. This is either going to be incredible or lame. I somehow get the feeling this is going to be some kind of marketing piece. We’ll see… 11:11pm is the release time.

Mac OS X 10.5: Quick launch Front Row

November 5th, 2007 by Kurt Wolf

Pressing Apple-Esc will launch Front Row. Pretty slick!

Mac OS X 10.5: Hide the Time Machine drive

November 5th, 2007 by Kurt Wolf

I have two drives on my Mac and I wanted to hide the Time Machine drive. I have no need to access this drive and I wanted a cleaner desktop. I found some information online that lead me to a good method to perform the task.

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Mac OS X 10.5: Unable to eject (unmount) a disk image

November 5th, 2007 by Kurt Wolf

I have come acros a rather annoying bug in 10.5. It seems that when a disk image (DMG) is mounted, the finder is unable to eject (dismount) the image. I have tried both Apple+E as well as dragging the disk to the trash. Both methods were unsuccessful. The disks can be ejected using the Disk Utility application. See the following URL’s for an ongoing discussion.

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1198385&stqc=true

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=5677911