Lion no longer installs all the printer drivers out of the box, I guess to cut down on unnecessary downloading from the Mac App Store. On 10.7.1 it wouldn’t let me add a printer with the error: The software for this printer is currently unavailable. Please contact the printer’s manufacturer for the latest software. However by running Software […]
Update 04/08/2011: last.fm have updated their client, either use the Check for updates.. in the app or download it. Still no scrobbling but the release notes show they’ve fixed it for Lion: 1.5.4.28012 (mac) (04/08/11) —————————- * Plugin fix for iTunes 10.5 * 64bit version of the plugin for iTunes on Lion Original: Sadly the last.fm client […]
When installing or updating Xcode you need to close iTunes for it to complete. If you’ve closed iTunes but still get this message: Open Activity Monitor and quit iTunes Helper. The installation will now finish. This mainly seems to happen on beta versions of iTunes. The helper app runs to detect iOS devices being connected […]
In Mac OS X Lion you can now add a short message to the login screen. It’s a long shot but adding contact details might increase the chances of a lost machine being recovered by 0.5%. To update the message go to System Preferences > Security & Privacy > General where you can choose Show a message when the screen is […]
Due to some cookie restriction in Lion the latest stable or beta version of Adium cannot connect to Facebook chat. Luckily they just re-enabled their nightly builds which fix the issue. Download the latest nightly from: http://nightly.adium.im/ Make sure you get the 1.4.3 nightly currently: http://nightly.adium.im/?repo_branch=adium-1.4-default As the 1.5 builds are unstable. Update: Adium have now […]
After upgrading to Lion I found it disabled a few of the system fonts. This made lots of websites not display as intended and warnings about Missing Fonts in Pages (which had the benefit of artificially inflating my book’s page count bringing it nearer completion). Turns out Lion can disable certain fonts in certain circumstances; I did a clean […]
This is one of my favourite websites. They take the comics from the New Yorker and add a literal caption to them. Your pulse rate is normal, but you’re a giant. Let’s never come here again. Here are the monkeys you ordered. Check out more at The Monkeys You Ordered.
Looks like in Safari 5.1 in Lion disk images (.dmg) are no longer classed as “Safe” files after the whole Mac Defender cat and mouse malware saga. The enabled by default “Open ‘safe’ files after downloading” preference of Safari automatically opens certain types of files as a convenience aid. Safari 5.0 on Snow Leopard: Safari 5.1 on Lion: […]
