Tag Archives: mac

Gravatar Mac Address Book Support Updated for Snow Leopard

Because the bundle somehow didn’t work for snow leopard, now it does, and you can get it here. of course . So basically, your mac adressbook is now able to get the gravatars again.. hrhr-

Missing Link: Update Contact Image in Mac’s Address Book using Gravatar

It’s that simple. just download the bundle, drop it to Library/Address Book Plug-Ins/ and restart Address Book. Once you click on an E-Mail address of one of your contacts, it will update the image using gravatar.com .
Have fun.
Update
There is a version available for Snow Leopard now, just check out the new post.

RIP, Macbook

So this is great news on a monday morning. Just before I started to work my MacBook died. There was nothing I could do for it. The CPU-Fan stopped rotating at about 9:50am. May it rest in peace.

Sharer, Giver, whatever, Filesharing

A short note on a previous post where I talked about my project of a simple File-Sharing applications that basically works using drag’n’drop and some zeroconf to find other peers. I wasn’t exactly surprised to find something that matches that description pretty well, but here it is, it’s called giver and should run on any [...]

Microsoft Songsmith on a MacBook Pro

I guess you’ve already witnessed Microsoft dropping it’s zero-drug policy, and the first obvious result. The Microsoft Songsmith Spot was certainly created by some kind of PR-genius. They are using a MacBook Pro to actually demo the software in the clip, a good choice, but don’t you think that it’s a bit too obvious how [...]

Zeroconf made easy: Bonjour for Java, Part 2, Client Implementation

I’ve been writing about the server side implementation aspects of Bonjour for Java a while ago, and I promised to explain the client side, which is a bit more tricky. The reasons therefore is that it makes heavy use of asynchronous callbacks, leaving you no other choice but to implement some interfaces and understand the [...]

The dying MacBook: Early adopters fate.

So it is. I have a MacBook, the beautiful ( at least it used to be ) white, 13″ screen, first model. But as with any living being, death is certain and signs for its arrival are mostly undeniable. Would my MacBook be a human patient, he would be approaching multi-organ failure. But let’s step [...]