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It’s Sunday 28th of October, two days since the release of Leopard. I’ve been running OSX 10.5 since Friday and everything is working very smoothly. I love the new look and have enjoyed playing around with Time Machine. I can’t wait for some hacks to allow backing up to SMB shares!

All I have to say this week is be careful with permissions. I was in System Pref playing around with Leopard’s Cool new File Sharing features and I accidently removed myself from the Admins of my HDD. I didn’t think this would actually effect my permissions within OSX but it did. Nothing would load up and OSX failed to do anything after the boot screen at power.

I managed to fix this nightmare by running Disk Utility from  my install disk and then selecting to Repair Permissions on my main HDD.

All for now!

Open N45AP.plist in a plain text editor, such as TextEdit, Notepad, TextMate, or SubEthaEdit.

Find the part of your N45AP.plist that says this:


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Both of these are such awesome games and seeing GOW come to any PC based platform would be great. Check it out.

I have 6 Pownce invites to give away. Simply reply here with your email and i’ll send you one. First come first serve basis.

If you’ve ever been on a Public Hotspot you’ve probably made sure not to visit anything too personal without making sure it’s secure. If you’re running Google Notifier then if you’re clever you’ve probably closed it, unfortunately some forget.

Here’s how to make Google Notifier check for mail securely every time.


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Ok so you want to watch the latest Simpsons trailer that isn’t available anywhere but Yahoo. You select to watch it in 720p format and wait for Quicktime to load. Except it doesn’t. Instead it downloads a .qtl file to your desktop which is completely useless if you try to load it in Quicktime. Here’s a fix for now until Yahoo fix the problem.
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