Sean Corfield's thoughts on Adobe technologies, software design and application frameworks. http://corfield.org The latest software update for Mac OS X 10.5.2 adds Java 1.6.0_05 but does not change your default setup. See <a href="http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307403">this tech note</a> for more details. I haven't yet switched to Java 6 as ... http://corfield.org/entry/Java_6_just_arrived_on_Leopard seancorfield 2008-04-30T10:51:00-05:00 coldfusion j2ee osx Popular Mechanics has published a <a href="http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/reviews/4258725.html">very interesting comparison</a> of Apple desktop and laptop performance compared to equivalent PC equipment. In almost all cases the Mac outpe... http://corfield.org/entry/Mac_vs_PC__Popular_Mechanics_Review seancorfield 2008-04-16T17:31:00-05:00 osx Just discovered that my iPhone had stopped syncing calendars. It turns out that Tiger and Leopard store their calendars in different places and if you do a simple "upgrade" to Leopard (as I did), then iTunes gets confused and uses your old Tiger cale... http://corfield.org/entry/PostLeopard_Glitch_3 seancorfield 2008-04-09T22:38:00-05:00 iphone osx I like Spaces but I always like improving my workflow. A small utility called <a href="http://www.ksuther.com/warp/">Warp</a> does just that. It allows you to switch Spaces using the mouse, with a variety of options including modifier keys, clickable... http://corfield.org/entry/Warp__Making_Leopard_Spaces_Even_Better seancorfield 2008-03-31T00:50:00-05:00 osx It won't recognize my Verizon broadband card - or at least it won't connect. Network preferences show that it thinks the "Novatel CDMA" card has become an Apple modem (huh?!). Delete the network profile, re-insert the card, bingo! Auto-configuration ... http://corfield.org/entry/PostLeopard_Glitch_2 seancorfield 2008-03-29T17:02:00-05:00 osx wifi It won't recognize my iPhone. Google turns up lots of similar complaints. Solution? Download iTunes and re-install it. Weird but it works. http://corfield.org/entry/PostLeopard_Glitch_1 seancorfield 2008-03-29T12:53:00-05:00 iphone osx In Tiger, you could cmd-tab and then use the arrow keys to move back and forth between apps. In particular, you could run off the end of the apps and wrap round to the other end of the app list. In Leopard, you can no longer do this. If you're on the... http://corfield.org/entry/Another_Leopard_Annoyance seancorfield 2008-03-29T04:23:00-05:00 osx If you're planning to upgrade to Mac OS X 10.5, make sure you backup or move whatever you have in your /home directory before you start. You know, don't have your ColdFusion 8 install or your Eclipse workspace in /home. Like I did. Oh, I know, why /h... http://corfield.org/entry/Welcome_to_Leopard__Bye_bye_home seancorfield 2008-03-29T00:54:00-05:00 osx personal If you use Thunderbird on OS X and try to attach a Keynote presentation (or, I suspect, a Pages document or Numbers spreadsheet), the recipient will not be able to read it. Apple's iWork products use a directory to store the documents instead of a si... http://corfield.org/entry/Thunderbird_and_Keynote seancorfield 2008-02-17T00:46:00-05:00 osx The creative director at one of my clients just turned me onto <a href="http://macrabbit.com/cssedit/">CSSEdit</a>. It has a really nice user interface for working with CSS but the really cool thing is that you can view any site in CSSEdit's built-in... http://corfield.org/entry/Amazing_CSS_editing_tool seancorfield 2008-01-16T13:32:00-05:00 osx Some people were not very excited about Apple's keynote yesterday but the 1.1.3 firmware update for the iPhone is plenty enough for me, along with Google's updated mobile apps. I use Gmail a lot on my iPhone and one of my clients has standardized ... http://corfield.org/entry/Thank_you_Apple_and_Google seancorfield 2008-01-16T12:29:00-05:00 personal osx iphone hosted blogging A Leopard is in my future. I've been holding off upgrading to Leopard until Adobe (and others) have updates available to ensure compatibility. My financial controller (Jay) pointed out that it's year end and if I need any "last minute" software or ha... http://corfield.org/entry/Seeing_spots seancorfield 2007-12-28T02:36:00-05:00 coldfusion iphone osx personal You used to be able to go to the online Apple store and buy iTunes gift certificates for people and send them directly via email. In fact, my "wish list" used to contain a link directly to that page on the store in case anyone wanted to buy me a cert... http://corfield.org/entry/Apple_makes_it_harder_to_buy_iTunes_gift_certificates_for_your_friends seancorfield 2007-12-18T21:56:00-05:00 osx personal Today Jay & I went to the AT&amp;T store and bought his and hers iPhones. I have to say that I'm even more impressed with the phone than I ever could have imagined. The virtual keyboard is good enough to type blog entries and the overall integration ... http://corfield.org/entry/Can_has_iPhone seancorfield 2007-11-27T17:54:00-05:00 iphone osx personal I know a lot of people rushed to installed Leopard (Mac OS X 10.5) last night and my friends found it very odd that I was not one of those early adopters. I've owned and used Macs day-in, day-out for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_OS">almo... [More] http://corfield.org/entry/Leopard_Compatibility seancorfield 2007-10-27T11:31:00-05:00 personal osx coldfusion adobe