March 21, 2007
Mac OS X 10.4.9: Media Eject key delay

ejecticon.gif According to this apple technote, there's a new feature in 10.4.9 which puts a delay on the Eject Key to prevent accidential ejection of media.

Now how silly is this? Why do you need to prevent something which isn't a problem at all?
What happens when you accidentialy press the eject key? Well, a CD will be ejected. So what. You can always just pop it in again or press the eject key once more.

This is such a silly feature i would have only expected to see from Microsoft.

Will Leopard maybe contain a feature which puts a slight delay on all keys on the keyboard in order to prevent accidential typing? ;-)

Geeeeeeeeezzzzzzzzzzzzz.

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March 13, 2007
Safari co-browsing

Ever wanted to be able to share your browser window, so the remote party sees exactly what you are seeing in your browser?

If you're on a Mac, you now can as i quickly whipped together a little AppleScript Studio app which does exactly this by the use of Remote Apple Events.

The remote party must have a reachable IP - and by reachable i mean even through a firewall. Also, in the Sharing System Preferences, Remote Apple Events need to be turned on.

Now, if you do know your remote parties IP and the remote party gives you an admin username and password, you can start co-browsing right after you downloaded and unzipped my little app. It is freely (as in beer) distributed under my creative commons license:

Download: CoBrowse.app

Being able to whip something together so quickly just makes you love the Mac-Platform.

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March 03, 2007
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