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Safari 4’s hidden preferences

Update 2009-03-04: One of my co-workers also pointed out the Secret Safari 4 Menu, which is also a bit of hackery, but makes it easy to make these tweaks without dipping into the command line (if that’s your preference).
Before the server was absolutely obliterated this morning, Caius over at Random Genius had posted a great [...]

Safari 4 Beta thoughts

Like a lot of people I was surprised and excited to see news about the Safari 4 beta today. I recently had switched back to Safari from Firefox 3 as my primary browser (I tend to do this every 6 months) and so was excited to test drive the new version. While there are many [...]

Installing Wireshark on Leopard

Update 2008-12-29: Fink Consulting provides an easy to install binary distribution of Wireshark on their website. Even though they include a copy of X11/Xquartz in their package, I’d recommend downloading the latest release of X11 from xquartz.macosforge.org, which is currently X11 2.3.1.
Update 2008-06-14: 10.5.2 includes an updated version of X11 which includes Xquartz 2.1.1 (or [...]

“Leopard better ‘Linux’ than Linux”

(Original story at http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2007/11/apples_leopard_1.html)
Seriously? This guy doesn’t even make a proper argument. Mac OS X has long included many open source packages, and Darwin has been open source itself for almost eight years. He could have said “Leopard is a better ‘Hot Dog’ than Hot Dogs” and it wouldn’t have made any more sense. Just [...]