A fantastic replica of an Apple iPhone commercial showing off some hilarious apps!
Discovert via Albert Grassia’s retweet.
Microsoft’s latest ad attacks Mac aesthetics, computing power — AppleInsider
Read the AppleInsider article and see how dumb this video actually is; the HP computer he ends up buying has battery life, is less powerful, and much more of a hastle compared to the MacBook he looks at.
Also, fitting this whole video within a minute with 1-3 second clips made my head hurt and didn’t tell me squat about the computer he got.
Microsoft fail #791.
I didn’t manage to watch Chris Pirillo’s live unboxing of his Mac Pro, but these recorded videos are awesome!
Fixing Flash in Safari 3.0
Erm, the more I use this as a blog, the less motivated I am to set up a Wordpress blog. Moving on…
I was reluctant to upgrade to OS X 10.4.10 because I’d seen people, such as Chris Marquardt, mention problems on Twitter, and I was perfectly fine with 10.4.9; so why upgrade?
After running fine with 10.4.9 for a few months — the main reason I didn’t upgrade was because we only have a limit of 25GB of bandwidth we can use every month, and frankly I’d rather download podcasts — I had a problem with something (iMovie, I think?), and Jess told me to upgrade all my software.
By now OS X 10.4.11 has been released, therefore I skipped 10.4.10 altogether. Included in the upgrade was Safari 3. I never use Safari so I didn’t really care. Although I did open it up just to see how different it was; no changes — I lie: the most exciting change for me was being able to move the order of the tabs around.
One thing that didn’t work in Safari 3 was Flash; it just showed Quicktime symbols with a “?” over it (see below) where ever there was flash on a website.
I thought it may have been because I removed Flip4Mac before the 10.4.11 upgrade, but Flip4Mac is for playing Windows Media formats, not Flash.
Hrmf. I tried upgrading Flash, Shockwave Flash, Quicktime (again); nothing, nada.
By this time I’d become a big Safari user. Go figure. Mostly because it feels like a light browser; no colourful junk everywhere, no plug-ins, etc. Moreover, whenever I wanted to watch something in Flash, or use the Viddler uploader, or the fancy new Flickr uploader, I’d have to load up Firefox (my favourite browser).
It was getting annoying. Although, I am a huge mega-tasker so I would do simple things in Safari while watching Flash videos in Firefox (on the other side of the screen). Still, when I would click a link in Twitter, using Safari, I’d be frustrated by that darn “Q?” symbol. Grah!
After a month or two of this, the back of my mind — the hippocampus, I learned that from J.C. Hutchins’ 7th Son — was saying “discussions.apple.com”.
Finally, this evening I went there, searched for ‘Flash not working in Safari’, and found this discussion. I read it until I figured out what I had to do, but then I read on more; just to see if there was more information in the discussion — there was!
THIS is what fixed Flash in Safari 3. It may be different for you, but give it a try nonetheless.
To reiterate: I dragged ‘com.apple.quicktime.plugin.preferences.plist’ from User/Library/Preferences and on to the desktop. Just to make sure I didn’t screw anything up. It worked. So I deleted it.
I’m very happy, but I feel bad; I might be using Firefox less now.
