Link: Bento

Public beta of a mysterious, intriguing new app from FileMaker — a Leopard-only “personal database".

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Link: Refresh Finder is ready to refresh Leopard’s Finder, too

Filed under: Software, Cool tools, Odds and ends, Freeware, Leopard, Developer

Reader Fredrik L sends word (thanks!) that Samuel Svensson is back from India, and that means his little mini-application, Refresh Finder, has been updated and is Leopard-ready.

There’s not much more to say about this one— you can probably guess what Refresh Finder does from its name, and while it is small and simple, it’s also proof positive that even small and simple things can…

Link: Hacking industrial sewing machines

I need to find space for an industrial machine in the shop. Clearly, everything is going to need to be on wheels for this to work, but it could happen…

Link: 10.5: Create executable command-line AppleScripts

It looks like AppleScript 2 in Leopard now supports # as a comment character, so it’s possible to have a unix world-executable AppleScript, eg:

#!/usr/bin/osascript`

tell app “iTunes” to pause

Save that as pauseitunes.sh and…

Link: 10.5: One fix for a runaway syslogd process

After installing Leopard, I had a problem with the battery on my MacBook Pro running down very quickly. Looking at Activity Monitor showed that syslogd was consuming between 90% and 106% of my CPU. Killing the process didn’t …

Link: 10.5: Some additional replacement tools for NetInfo

This may be more a server admin topic, but since there isn’t one for Leopard Server I’ll mention it here. Yes, many have noticed (and some with great joy) that NetInfo is no longer part of the client OS (it’s been gone from …

Link: Spotlight Strikes Back

Matt Neuburg:

In order to explain why Spotlight in Leopard is so good, I have to talk briefly about why Spotlight in Tiger was so bad.

Great details on how to construct complex Spotlight queries.

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Link: macosxhints.com - 10.5: Use extra region capture screenshot options

Link: macosxhints.com - 10.5: Extended character set passwords and SMB shares

This seems like a good reason not to use extended characters, though they do make things more secure I guess…

Link: 10.5: How to enable PHP and MySQL in 10.5

Getting a working an Apache, MySQL, and PHP environment running in Leopard Client is quite easy. Included with OSX 10.5 are Apache2 and PHP 5.2.4, although PHP is disabled by default. So let’s start by enabling PHP. Open Ter…