Category Archives: Macintosh

iPhone Photos Without Photostream

Posted on February 15, 2012 by romkey

Apple’s iOS 5 introduced Photostream as part of their iCloud offering – when you take photos on an iOS device they are automatically synced to iCloud and from there to other devices and Mac iPhoto libraries. Once in a while, … Continue reading →

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No More Printer Rebates from Apple

Posted on January 17, 2012 by romkey

Apple has long offered a $100 rebate on select printers. It’s something I’ve counseled many Mac buyers to take advantage of. You could get a moderate quality inkjet printer with a flatbed scanner built-into it for free with that rebate. … Continue reading →

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The Mac Companion: Are You Serious, Iomega?

Posted on November 13, 2011 by romkey

Over the summer, Iomega announced their latest external hard drive, this one targeted at the Macintosh community: the Mac Companion. The Companion is a very nice looking external hard drive with both USB 2.0 and Firewire 800 ports, as well … Continue reading →

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Words of Advice Before Upgrading to iOS 5 and iCloud

Posted on October 12, 2011 by romkey

Today is a big day for Apple. The iPhone 4S is shipping and Apple is doing one of its biggest set of software updates ever. Today they’ll be releasing iOS 5 for the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad. They’ll also … Continue reading →

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Fixing Perl after MacOS X Security Update 2009-001

Posted on February 16, 2009 by romkey

Apple's first security update of 2009 for MacOS X may solve some security issues in the OS but it also seriously breaks Perl by installing old versions of some modules along with Perl. It looks like Perl works okay for things that MacOS X uses it for, but if you do development using it or have installed other modules than what it came bundled with you may find that it no longer works.

…You'll probably need to download it from CPAN by hand as the CPAN shell itself is broken by the update.

The current version (as of the time I'm writing this article) is 1.2301 – you can find it at http://search.cpan.org/~gbarr/IO-1.2301/IO.pm
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