Mac OS X Network Mount: As Unreliable as Can Be
April 29th, 2007
OS X has a feature that allows you to mount a network disk and it will show in your Finder as if it was a local disk:
When the disk is mounted, you can treat it as any disk and carry out operations such as move, copy, rename, remove, etc. Every now and then, for some reason, OS X might lose connection to the network disk and all hell breaks lose. Instead of gracefully exiting, alerting you, and resuming, every application will start suffering what I have dubbed as the “Spinning Beachball Death”. That is correct, every application will start losing functionality, and enter a useless cycle beachball that does not end.
Read on if you wanna see a movie I captured of this behavior happening.
Utility to Fix the Dashboard Lag
January 22nd, 2007
I like Dashboard a lot…that being said, I hate the fact that the first time you bring it up, you MUST wait for the damn widgets to load before you can use any of them. I really don’t know what Apple was thinking when they left this bug…
The good news is that there are a lot of people out there pissed off as well at this stupid bug, and some have gone far enough to fix it. Using DashboardStarter by the good people from Bronson Software, Dashboard will start when the computer is launching. This will activate your widgets and before you know it, they will be available for you to use. Enjoy!