Well, we’ve been waiting, what, about two years for this now. Today, Apple released Java 6 as part of it’s Java for Mac OS X 10.5 Update 4.
The support docs (found here) say that in this 158MB update we get:
Upgrade today as I’m sure many developers will be wanting to update their code as part of a long awaited refactoring!
After delving into Solaris10 a couple of weeks ago, I thought I would explore the hidden regions of my Mac…It turns out that it has many of the same things as a typical UNIX/Linux system, but doesn’t seem to use them 
For example, /etc, is not there! Its a symlink to /private/etc, which is most weird, and even weirder still, I had a look into fstab, but it’s not there! Well, it’s called fstab.hd, and here’s the contents:
IGNORE THIS FILE.
This file does nothing, contains no useful data, and might go away in
future releases. Do not depend on this file or its contents.
How weird!
I’ve noticed this about OS X, it still has a lot of UNIX files in, but doesn’t tend to use them…
I found out how you make icons transparent! Make them a tiff image! Simple as!
EDIT: I will update this with a walkthrough someday…
Did you know that you can grab the icons for applications, and then save them as a GIF, a JPEG, PNG or even a PDF?
If you go to the Applications folder and select the application you want, right (ctrl)click and press “Show package contents Read the rest of this entry »
Today, 11th February, Apple release the second system update to Leopard. So what did we get?
A good friend of mine, Aled Hughes, spoke to me today on msn and was talking to me about a feature he found on Leopard. If you press shift+option+volume (option being ‘alt’), then you can increment/decrement the volume by a quarter of a volume block:
Another of those little features Apple like to hide 
Have you upgraded to Leopard and decided you really don’t like the new 3D ’shelf’?
Never fear! Apple have given us two options…
A fellow Mac User has pointed me to look at TextEdit.app with Coverflow. Blown up it looks like this:
“Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes.
The 26th October: about 11am, I received a small box from a man who travelled in an Orange lorry.
With great eagerness I signed the form and ripped open the packaging to find a shiny box containing a DVD on it. On the DVD was Apple’s latest edition of OS X: Leopard, Mac OS 10.5.
