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Ok, I don’t know what it is with my OS X install lately after installing OS update 10.5.4 but things seem to be broken left and right. Besides the trash issue in a previous post, Quicktime movies will not play in Safari - but they do play in Firefox. I updated to the latest Quicktime (7.5) and still no go after a restart. After trawling through numerous support forums, this is what worked for me:

1. Navigate to the “/Library/Internet Plug-Ins” folder
2. Delete the “QuickTime Plugin.webplugin” file
3. Restart Safari

Go to http://www.apple.com/trailers to test.

Technorati Tags: quicktime question mark, safari

Most likely your Trash folder is not owned by you anymore. To fix:

1. Open Terminal.app, and type in the next 3 commands:
2. sudo chown <your_user_name>:staff ~/.Trash
3. sudo chmod 700 ~/.Trash
4. killall Finder

The New York Times has an article about prominent bloggers being stressed out. Hey, just like a “real” job (not that theirs is not real of course). In their pay-per-click world, I don’t know if it will ever get less stressful. Just like any other business. I’m sure if they quit, some other blogger will fill the void.

Technorati Tags: blogging

Here are the steps:

1. Download RealVNC
2. Launch it
3. Select the “Options…” button
4. Select the “Full Colour (all available colours)” radio button in the “Colour and Encoding” tab

Selecting any other colour level will make RealVNC close abruptly after connection.

Technorati Tags: vnc, leopard, os x, xp, vista, windows

I have left Atimi Software Inc. after three years being there, for personal reasons. I loved developing for the Mac, and now is an exciting time especially with the iPhone and its SDK — but it is back to the Windows world for me. I still will develop Mac stuff as a hobby, for sure. An opportunity presented itself to get in on the ground level with a web startup that I couldn’t pass up, I will blog more about it when it is appropriate.

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