February 2008

The Archives

• Macs

  New Macintosh Help Website Debuts

  02.06.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  New Macintosh Help Website Debuts: “
  Scott Haneda and Caroline Merchiers have launched the first basic Macintosh help Website, osxhelp.com, on Wednesday. It claims to bring a new perspective to the Mac help Websites currently available.

  (Via The Mac Observer.)
  

• Macs

  Apple Updates Quicktime to 7.4.1

  02.06.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Apple Updates Quicktime to 7.4.1:
  “Apple has posted an update to Quicktime bringing it to version 7.4.1 today. Updates are available for Leopard, Tiger, Panther, and Windows.
  Apple reports the new Quicktime addresses security issues and improves compatibility with thir…”

  (Via MacRumors : Mac News and Rumors.)
  

• Mac OS Server

  Workgroup Manager: Add an Application to the Dock

  02.05.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Looks like the number one google search that gets people to this site is “workgroup manager add a application to the dock” or some variation of such. So, due to popular demand, here is a quick tutorial on how to add an application to the dock using WGM.
  

• Uncategorized

  Leopard homeSync changes « Managing OS X

  02.04.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Leopard homeSync changes « Managing OS X:
  “Apple has made an interesting change to the homeSync behavior in Leopard. Top-level directories in the home dir that begin with a dot (like ‘.netscape’) are synced at login and logout, but not in the background. More accurately, they are treated like ~/Library.”

  (Via Managing OS X.)
  

• Educational Technology

  Keeping Citations Straight, and Finding New Ones :: Inside Higher Ed :: Jobs, News and Views for All of Higher Education

  02.04.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Keeping Citations Straight, and Finding New Ones :: Inside Higher Ed :: Jobs, News and Views for All of Higher Education:
  “‘Using a tool like CiteULike, researchers (who are finding 99 percent of their journal papers online, probably bypassing the library) can now reach directly into the bookshelves of other researchers in their field (or any [...]

• Educational Technology

  Use Twitter for School [Twitter]

  02.03.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Use Twitter for School [Twitter]: “
  We’ve already seen many different ways to use Twitter for recreational or informational use, but weblog academhack has shown how Twitter can be extended to academic use. When assigning his students to learn how to use Twitter, Professor Dave Parry observed that class chatter went well beyond the classroom [...]

• Macs

  Software Update Recap: 1.27.08 - 2.2.08

  02.02.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  The first of what will be a regular feature is a quick review of all the Apple software updates from the previous weeks. As a sysadmin for a school I know how easy it is to miss one of these. The description of the fixes below each update are taken from Apple’s release notes.
  iWeb 2.0.3
  This [...]

• Mac OS Server, Uncategorized

  PKGImage

  02.01.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  PKGImage: “
  PKGImage is a modular system deployment tool for leopard (10.5).
  Now released here:’http://www.apple-scripts.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=16
  Read on for more info…
  Using PKGImage you can then stack the order in which pkg files are installed after the base OS to make up your complete image with the click of a mouse.
  Tick the options to set the startup disk, re-boot after [...]

• Mac OS Server

  Workgroup Manager: A Step by Step Guide to Common Mac OS X Server Tasks

  02.01.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  In Introducing Workgroup Manager we defined common terms, and became familiar with navigating the Workgroup Manager interface. In the second piece in the series on Workgroup Manager I will provide a step by step guide to 3 of the most common Workgroup Manager tasks: Creating a new user, adding a new computer to the directory, [...]

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