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If Time Machine gets disrupted for any reason during a backup (ie. hard drive unplugged, power failure) it seems to get stuck. Occasionally it gets stuck for reasons only known to Leopard. Its a known bug on the Apple discussion boards. What has worked for me is the following:1. ensure hard drive is powered on and connected to computer2. turn off time machine3. go to your backup volume, backups.backupd, "your computer name", and then select and trash "In Progress" or "Latest" (it will be the last one in your backup folder listing)4. turn Time Machine back on5. either wait for the next backup cycle, or what I do to be sure things are working right is force an immediate backup (control-click on TimeMachine, select "backup now").

Why are high schools banning devices like this without first considering their potential as mobile learning devices?

A WebArchive object represents a webpage that can be archived—for example, archived on disk or on the pasteboard. A WebArchive object contains the main resource, as well as the subresources and subframes of the main resource. The main resource can be an entire webpage, a portion of a webpage, or some other kind of data such as an image. Use this class to archive webpages, or place a portion of a webpage on the pasteboard, or to represent rich web content in any application.

A few weeks ago, we brought you news about Remote Buddy. It's a neat little application that allows you to control almost anything on your Mac mini with the Apple Remote. The response to an application offering this kind of functionality was pretty enthusiastic, so I wanted to let you know about three other applications in the same category. They are iRed Lite, Mira and Sofa Control. You can learn more about each one of these applications down below. So if you're looking to get more out of your Apple Remote, I suggest you download them and give them a try. Remote Buddy "Remote Buddy provides you with a one stop interface that allows you to control almost anything on your Mac just with the remote control. Besides tools that allow you to emulate keyboard and mouse, eject CDs, terminate applications and much more, Remote Buddy also can control applications directly. It does this through specialized plugins, so called Behaviors. Already included with Remote Buddy are Behaviours for iTunes, Keynote 3, PowerPoint, Photo Booth, QuickTime Player, EyeTV 2, DVD Player, VLC Media Player, Real Player, Adobe Reader, Acrobat Pro, CoverFlow, Quinn, GarageBand, NetNewsWire, MPlayer OSX, Expose and many more. For your convenience, Remote Buddy has a set of intelligent algorithms that can automatically choose the best fitting behavior for the currently running applications. Plus a table of the active mapping and the behaviors menu is always just a press of the Menu button away." Download Details:   Developer: IOSPIRIT   License: Demo   Price: $12.70   System Requirements: Mac OS X 10.4 or later Sofa Control "Apple ships a Remote Control with any new Mac. The pre-installed functionality is limited to control just a couple of applications. Sofa Control breaks this limit. With Sofa Control you are able to control any application on your Mac and trigger the actions you like. Sofa Control gives the control back to you. Sofa Control uses AppleScript to control any application installed on your Mac. It's full extendible and adoptable by the end user with their own scripts. Sofa Control provides specially designed "sofa suitable" user interface elements to choose files and to bring up menus. A special application switcher makes it easy to switch between applications. Sofa Control ships with support for a number of applications like Eye TV, Preview, iTunes, Adobe Reader, Keynote, VLC, Quicktime Player, Powerpoint, NetNewsWire, and more. A download area for new and updated scripts is provided on the product's website." Download Details:   Developer: CASE Apps   License: Demo   Price: $9.99   System Requirements: Mac OS X 10.4 or later iRed Lite "iRed Lite (iRL) was made for all Macs equipped with an Apple Remote, but may be used by keyboard or mouse as well. It allows you to control the basic functions of applications like iTunes, iPhoto, PowerPoint or Keynote from remote. Examples for these apps as well as for others are provided with the iRL package. iRL does not interfere with Front Row, but supplements it. A visual feedback of iRL is always only a click away: press Menu on your Apple Remote and you'll get an full screen or a resizable on-screen menu to show you what kind of action an Apple Remote button will cause. Switching between applications or control scenarios is also done in a snap: hold Menu for a second and you can switch between "layers" of controls. Optional audio feedback lets you operate iRL even without sight. iRL is highly customizable with a built-in Editor, which features a simple mode as well as an expert mode and it is only at its beginning: Themes for on-screen menus as well as an

      80GB: 20,000 Songs 2.5-inch color display 5.5 ounces 2.4 x 4.1 x .55 inches $349.00 Your thinking, is this guy full of it, or what? Can you afford to miss your chance by having doubts? Stay tuned, on November 22nd, I’ll announce the winner here in an update to this post. Tony Miller 10/30 Contest Update: Contest has been extended to include 2nd and 3rd place iPod winners. One del.icio.us user who bookmarked this page, will be selected at random, as the 2nd place winner of a 4GB iPod nano. 4GB: 1,000 Songs 1.5-inch color display 1.41 ounces 1.6 x 3.5 x 0.26 inches 199.00 One del.icio.us user who bookmarked this page, will be selected at random, as the 3rd place winner of a 1GB iPod shuffle. 1GB: 240 Songs 1.62 x 1.07 x 0.41 inches 0.55 ounce 79.00

For example, the icons for user applications are colorful and inviting, while utilities have a more serious appearance. Figure 10-2 shows user application icons in the top row and utility icons in the bottom row. These genres are further described in "User Application Icons" and "Utility Icons".Figure 10-2  Two icon genres: User application icons in top row; utility icons in bottom rowThe graphic flexibility of Aqua icons can also help users identify files associated with an application. In iTunes, for example, a visual cue provided in the application icon is carried over into icons for other files associated with iTunes, forming an icon family, as shown in Figure 10-3.

iLife ’06 Multimedia Tutorials Whether you're taking digital photographs, putting your home videos on DVD, or writing your own songs, iLife ’06 has an easy solution for you. With these tutorials, you can watch step-by-step movies that will help you learn the great things you can do with iPhoto 6, GarageBand 3, iTunes, iMovie HD 6, iDVD 6, and iWeb. Use these tutorials just the way you want; proceed through the tutorials topic by topic or use the Tutorial Menu links to find the topic you need. Look for the iLife Connections links within each tutorial to see how seamlessly you can use these applications together—how, for example, you can take your iPhoto slideshow to iDVD or use GarageBand to score a movie in iMovie HD. To start an iLife ’06 tutorial, select an application you want to learn about from the top menu bar, abov

Mac OS X includes a VNC server (check the Sharing preference pane, it's part of Apple Remote Desktop).

defaults write com.apple.ScreenSharing ShowBonjourBrowser_Debug 1

My current (minimalistic) Linux startup file, so that I remember that unsetting SESSION_MANAGER is the right way to avoid complaints from gnome-session: $ cat .vnc/xstartup #!/bin/sh unset SESSION_MANAGER [ -x /etc/vnc/xstartup ] && exec /etc/vnc/xstartup [ -r $HOME/.Xresources ] && xrdb $HOME/.Xresources xsetroot -solid grey vncconfig -iconic & gnome-session &