Posts Tagged ‘snow leopard’

Unable to Minimize Windows in Mac OS X

Macs are known for their ability to just work. Software seems to behave very well and for the most part, you don’t get as many crashes or freeze ups as on a Windows machine. However, the more I use my Macbook Pro the more I realize that, while it is true that you get less [...]


Just Won a Free Copy of Parallels Desktop 4.0 for Mac

Parallels and OnTheHub are currently offering free copies of their amazing Parallels Desktop 4.0 to the winners of their Twitter contest. The instructions are on their twitter accounts and on the OnTheHub page but basically, all you have to do to enter is: Re-tweet #parallels4students. That is it! The contest might still be going so hurry [...]


A Fun Little Cocoa Program

While working on Hillegass’ book Cocoa(R) Programming for Mac(R) OS X (3rd Edition). I made this small app. It is called Speak Line and it basically speaks whatever you type in the text field. It is very entertaining.
The book shows you how to do it with the default voice but I could not stop there. [...]


Xcode 3.2 and iPhone 3.0 Update Available for Snow Leopard

Today I was programming in Xcode and realized that every time I ran my programs, I would get these weird messages in the debugger console. They didn’t break anything or cause the program to end prematurely but it made the compile and run process take longer and flooded the console with the weird message “unable [...]


HP Scanner Not Working with Snow Leopard

After installing the new OS X Snow Leopard on my Macbook Pro, I encountered some incompatibilities with some software. All of these incompatibilities were easily fixed by updating the software except for one: my HP printer/scanner/copier software.

The printer was working fine as a printer but I was not able to scan anything. I would press [...]


Snow Leopard Has Changed the Way the Sleep Display Hot Corner Works.

Up until today, I have been using hot corners in Mac OS X Leopard in two ways:

To start the screen saver as a way to lock my machine (require login)
To put the display to sleep when I am in class and wish to conserve energy or hide my screen without having to log back in.

After [...]