We all know the trouble Apple has has with the mobile me launch. The still shaky service has been through the wringer. This post on GigaOM, along with this post on TechCrunch makes me think, why didn’t apple just choose google to do this. Google has a proven infrastructure, apple could have offered it for free or at a lower price point and they would have avoided all the embarrassment that went along with the launch. One more thing is that everyone pretty much already had a gafyd or gmail account already it would have been simple. I could go on and on about this but that would make my blog interesting and then people would expect that all the time. Just think about this and wonder with me and feel free to leave a comment.

If this doesn’t make sense to you that’s fine I understand. Here is another way to put it, You can now sync google calendar to iCal over the web, without any 3rd party apps. Let me quote TUAW:

Google has just quietly introduced CalDAV support to Google Calendar. CalDAV is the protocol that iCal uses to transmit data over the web. Although some other mail and calendar programs support CalDAV, right now Google Calendar is only compatible with iCal. Finally, iCal and Google Calendar can sync without having to use third party programs!

Instructions here

Thanks TUAW!

So I had this issue recently with my macbook where I couldn’t click on the desktop on the left side in Finder. I also could not see any other icons besides the default harddrive icons. Here is the fix that worked for me:

1. Log out your user, and log in as another user. Open the Terminal.
2. Type ‘su userName’ with your user’s short name as userName. Enter the appropriate password as prompted.
3. Type ‘cd ~’ and return.
4. Type ‘mkdir temp’ and return
5. Type ‘mv Desktop/* temp’. That should move all the items from your Desktop folder to a temporary folder.
6. Type ‘ls temp’. This should show all the files that used to be on the Desktop — makes sure the move command worked properly.
7. Type ‘rm -Rf Desktop’
8. Type ‘mkdir Desktop’
9. Type ‘mv temp/* Desktop’
10. Type ‘ls Desktop’. That should show all the files, back where they’re supposed to be
11. Type ‘rm -Rf temp’ to get rid of the temp folder.
12. Type ‘chmod -R 700 Desktop’. Otherwise, everyone will be able to
read the files in that folder, because those are the default
permissions for your home dir.

This wasn’t an easy answer to find!!
Credit: MacOsxHints

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2008/07/18/ealeopard118.xml

Crazy Pictures capture this first time event! I wonder what this means for crocs now that leopards can take them down, and how can I turn this into a Apple (Leopard HA) vs Microsoft (croc) hahaha! Look who wins!!!

I’ve found lots of places to turn on TimeMachine backing up to a NAS (Network Storage Drive), but I couldn’t find any that told me how to restore after using the hack. Until Now! I haven’t tried these but the poster says they work:

If you are trying to do a full restore back onto your mac after the hd
failed, you use the Time Machine backup in concert with your Leopard
Install Disk.

1) Boot the Leopard Install Disk
2) Select Terminal from Utilities
3) ping your NAS box to make sure you have connectivity
4) Create a mount point for your NAS box, i.e “mkdir /Volumes/nas”
5) Mount your backup drive manually
For AFP, use “mount_afp afp://username:password@NAS_IP_ADDRESS/NAS_volume_name /Volumes/nas”
Presumably if you use Samba, you could mount with mount_smbfs instead. I use AFP and the above syntax worked.
6) Make sure the sparsebundle file mentioned above is in the root directory: “ls /Volumes/nas”
7) Exit terminal, “exit”
Select “Restore from Backup disk” from the Utilities (?) menu and you should see your backup listed

Credit: Mac Forums – View Single Post – Cannot see NAS from Time Machine