Are you seeing dialogs from “PubSub Agent”, asking for access to the keychain, when you login? That’s perfectly normal. The PubSub Agent, is used by MobileMe / DotMac, to synchronize the computer’s bookmarks with MobileMe. It is safe to click “Always Allow” for the PubSub Agent. Technote TS 1770 – Mac OS X 10.5: About […]
Let’s take this account: After I installed Mac OSX (10.5.6), Roxio’s CD Spin Doctor started to show corrupted and incomplete waveforms. This problem has been reported several times on MacFixIt.com. I’m not sure if there is a fix to it, or who is responsible: Apple or Roxio. Has anyone on this forum experienced the problem, […]
You finally checked your console log, and you don’t know what to make about these entries? Â Never fear… I’ll help explain it… Â Then you can be afraid of the big bad internet… The following is a sample of the console log of someone attempting to connect to “Power-mac-g5” via SSH, without having the proper username […]
Do you really need to defragment your hard drive with modern versions of Mac OS X (eg. 10.4 / 10.5)? The answer really, in most cases, is no.  A simple reboot or logout / login may solve the problem with very little effort. Apple has even written a tech note, specifically on this topic, see […]
I just realized that I have not yet mention Winclone, one of the most useful software packages for backing up Windows computers, on the macintosh… WinClone, quite simply, allows you to image / clone your XP or Vista based hard drive, and restore it to another drive or partition later…. It is quite similar to […]
I know that the one drawback with iPhoto 2009 as been the inability to simply find pictures that have contain unidentified faces… So I was glad to see from this Mac OS X hints entry, that this process has been simplified… Create an ‘unnamed faces’ Smart Album in iPhoto ’09 While iPhoto 09’s new facial […]
“Services for Macintosh†is Microsoft name for their 3rd party implementation of the Apple File Protocol (AFP), and Printer Access Protocol (PAP). This was first utilized in Windows NT Server 4, and has been supported up to Windows 2003 Server… The Services for Macintosh allowed Macintosh computers to access File Shares & use printers hosted […]
At this point, all evidence points to this being a normal fact of life with Mac OS X 10.5 (aka Leopard). Â If you have more than 1 Dashboard widget, you will probably have more than one dashboardclient startup when you run Dashboard. Â The ratio is probably not a 1:1 ratio, since Leopard is designed to […]