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Robservatory » Blog Archive » A useless analysis of OS X release dates

A release history of every dot update to OS X since the public betas.

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february 2012 by amdavidson

Improving the Scrolling Experience in Lion | Jettison Canopy

A proposal to fix the inability to determine if there is material outside the current view when using Lion with the default of the scroll bars being disabled

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august 2011 by amdavidson

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Make An OS X Lion Boot Disc - MacRumors.com

How to make a Lion boot disc from the App Store download so that clean installs can be done.

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july 2011 by amdavidson

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Improve Mac OS X performance under load by disabling spindump.

A quick howto to disable the spindump crash logger on OSX. Greatly improves the hang after the crash of an app.

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september 2010 by amdavidson

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A plugin that enables 3 pane view for Apple's Mail.app

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march 2010 by amdavidson

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/dev/why!?!: The loss of ZFS

an interesting article on the use (or more accurately non-use) of ZFS in Apple and other desktop systems.

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october 2009 by amdavidson

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Top 15 Terminal Commands for Hidden Settings in Snow Leopard | Mac OS X Tips

Some cool settings that you can enable with the terminal that REALLY should be the default.

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october 2009 by amdavidson

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Extracting Icons from Mac OS X Applications at keith-knipling.com

How to extract icons from applications and folders and save them to image files using OS X standard utilities

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september 2009 by amdavidson

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Fixing Ruby Gems, MySQL and Passenger Phusion on Snow Leopard 10.6 | Greg Benedict

Install all the requires stuff for snow leopard.

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september 2009 by amdavidson

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 TwistedMac - Mac OS X Over The Years

A look back at each verson of Mac OS X since its release as a public beta in Fall 2000.

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august 2009 by amdavidson

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HowTo: Make Ubuntu A Perfect Mac File Server And Time Machine Volume [Update6] › Blog › kremalicious.com » Matthias Kretschmann | Photography & Design

Use your ubuntu machine as an AFP server. Also has instructions for setting up Time Machine on your Mac to support it.

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june 2009 by amdavidson

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Gizmodo - A Brief Note About Beavers' Testicles - Apple Dictionary

"a seventeenth-century antidote to idiocy was to rub the forehead with beaver testicles".... If you have a Mac open the dictionary app, and look up idiocy in the thesaurus.... Hilarity ensues.