Matt Neuburg
Matt Neuburg has been writing for TidBITS since 1991, concentrating on issues surrounding word processing, databases and text organization programs, scripting and innovative programming systems, and a variety of utilities. He has written some popular freeware programs, such as MemoryStick and NotLight. He has created the online documentation for a number of applications, such as Script Debugger and Opal. He has written books about programming Frontier, REALbasic, and AppleScript, and is the author of various Take Control ebooks.
When do you need access to your online passwords? When you're online, of course! But can a browser-based password manager be secure? It can if it's Clipperz.
Apple's documentation at last officially admits that, in Snow Leopard, creator codes are ignored when deciding what application owns a document.
Certain files can't be copied from one computer to another via File Sharing in Snow Leopard. The cause of the bug has to do with permissions on symlinks. Here's how to detect troublesome symlinks and fix them.
Certain files can't be copied from one computer to another via File Sharing in Snow Leopard. Details are given, so you can confirm the bug for yourself.
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Can't relive the past? Why, of course you can! In Leopard, Apple killed off Classic; but with SheepShaver, you can bring it back to life and run a Classic Mac OS in emulation, even on an Intel machine, even under Snow Leopard.
Matt Neuburg lets you watch over his shoulder as he uses LaunchBar all day, every day.
You may think you don't care about Apple events, but they're everywhere, and on Snow Leopard they're ever so slightly broken, in a way that causes intermittent random-looking scripting failures. Here's how the bug was discovered, proved, and reported to Apple.
Years ago, TidBITS published an article calling Input Managers "the work of the Devil." Now Apple has slammed the door on Input Managers: in Snow Leopard, 64-bit apps don't load them. Password manager 1Password was an Input Manager, yet the 1Password 3 beta works in 64-bit Safari. Read Kevin Ballard's blog post to learn about 1Password's new technique for hacking into Safari.
In an undocumented and unannounced change, Snow Leopard has stifled an application's ability to mark a document as its own, thus hampering users and developers alike.
On the MacJury podcast for 01-Sep-09, two out of five "jurors" are TidBITS editors and Take Control authors - Joe Kissell and Matt Neuburg. Find out how everyone's Snow Leopard installation experience went. And hear a vociferous argument about whether or not Apple's Intel-only policy for Snow Leopard is fair to users.
In a one-hour MacVoices podcast interview, TidBITS contributing editor Matt Neuburg gives examples of why small interface tweaks and behind-the-scenes improvements give user good reason to upgrade to Snow Leopard.
While working on the just-released "Take Control of Exploring & Customizing Snow Leopard," Matt Neuburg has had to live with Snow Leopard for some time now, and he's brimming with impressions of what's new, what's not, and what it all means.
Ever see your browser suddenly displaying nonsense? That's the Mac OS X font cache corruption bug. Apparently, a major cause of the corruption has been found.
The Mac OS X Finder is stupid, slow, and unhelpful. What can you do? You could pray for Snow Leopard and hope it brings some improvement. Or you can try Cocoatech's Path Finder 5 right now.