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Posts Tagged ‘leopard’

10.5.7 ongoing weirdness

In Computing on 8 June 2009 tagged Apple, freeze, issues, leopard, osx, problems, sleep, wake with 2 comments

I managed to fix the wake-from-sleep problem that I originally suffered from on my MacPro. A reboot (or two) seemed to fix it and it sleeps without waking up now. I am still seeing some pretty weird issues with other areas though, particularly the Finder. Mapping drives through Finder seems prone to issues, often taking [...]

Junk Drawer

In Music on 23 March 2008 tagged drivers, gear, General, leopard, midi, Music, Photos, Software with no comments

I woke up feeling a little creative this morning and didn’t feel compelled to put together shelves or unpack boxes. So I dug out my Korg EA-1, plugged it into my midi box (which finally has Leopard-compatible drivers) and whipped-up this little bit of synth noise.
Junk Drawer.mp3 (192kbps VBR MP3)
or
Junk Drawer.m4a (177kbps VBR AAC)
3′27″.

Updated Music Library Listing

In Meta on 7 November 2007 tagged Apple, iTunes, itunes_publisher, leopard, Meta, Music, opensource, osx, Software with no comments

I updated my online music library today. It’s been overlong. The current stats are 8436 songs, 27.3 days, 56.3 GB. That’s for a Smart Playlist gathering all checked tracks and excluding videos and podcasts. If including the full library, I’d have 12863 items, 41:12:51:32 total time and 82.34GB. This week I had to deselect a [...]

People! Settle down now! It’s no big deal…

In Computing on 2 November 2007 tagged Apple, Computing, leopard, macbook_pro, osx, review, Software with no comments

Not since the release of the iPhone has so much noise been made about Apple. I am talking about Leopard, of course. It’s out now and you can get it from just about anywhere. Over 2 years ago, I wrote a great big review of Tiger. I’m not gonna do that for this release. Why [...]