Friday, 4 August 2006

Mac developers: please follow Opera's lead

If you’re going to tell me to drag the little icon of your application into my Applications folder… do me a favor and include an alias to Applications in the disk image, so all I have to do is drag the little icon over an inch or so, rather than fooling around in the Go menu and raising and lowering windows to make the drag work right.

Wednesday, 5 July 2006

What I learned about OS X today

Here’s one very handy command to know, particularly when you’re 700+ miles away from your OS X box: sudo softwareupdate -i -a. It goes very nicely with fink selfupdate && fink update-all.