by Dave | Nov 13, 2008 | Tinker Blog
Very tricky. I have a lot more respect for the Keychain in Mac OS X after working on this. It is not simple at all. After poking around I cobbled together an Automator application (using AppleScript) that goes through the Keychain and exports the passwords to a file...
by Dave | Oct 31, 2008 | Tinker Blog
At some point in the endless reboots back and forth to different OSes, I found myself again at the Mac OS X login screen. I entered my username and password. It accepted them, the login screen went away and… came back. It did this several times. I rebooted. No...
by Dave | Dec 5, 2005 | Tinker Blog
Now I am an Apple fan, but that said, I was lured by Firefox 1.5 to break away from my Apple-made browser, Safari 2.0. A few days ago, I imported all my bookmarks into Firefox and switched my default browser to Firefox. I think it’s interesting that you set the...
by Dave | May 7, 2005 | Tinker Blog
I got it installed and it’s awesome! The only hitch I had is that I forgot to backup my development databases on my iBook. Since there were production copies out there, it wasn’t too bad to solve that. Zend Studio, which I love, wasn’t installing,...
by Dave | Apr 29, 2005 | Tinker Blog
As anyone with a Mac knows, the new version of Mac OS X, the Apple operating system, is being released today. My copy from Amazon should arrive soon. To prepare myself, I’ve got a checklist on my desk of things to do to be ready. I’ve had some pretty...