May 2003 Archives
Sometimes I surf to pages that are simply unreadable, usually on geocities or angelfire.
I'd long seen bookmarklets that would allow you to set individually background colour and foreground text colour, however there were few that allowed you to overide a background image, at least few that worked in safari.
So I threw a few different scripts together to produce a bookmarklet I dub: Sane Page. This resets a page to black text on white background and it's only been tested in Safari.
It only works with old skool HTML that doesn't use style sheets. generally because those who have enough nouse to work out style sheets generally pick colour schemes that don't suck.
Enjoy.
A while back I mentioned a way to slipstream all the Apple updates into the install CD, the details were for 10.1 but the same instructions apply for 10.2 despite the move to 2 CDs. You simply need to add the new packages to CD2 and edit the mpkg contents list on CD1
Also, I have been using the same strategy without burning a CD. Instead i've constructed a mpkg containing all the apple updates since 10.2 came out, including things like iTunes4 and iMovie 3.02. Of course the InstallationCheck and VolumeCheck scripts need to be disabled for each component pkg as described in the previous hint.
This has the advantage of reducing the repetitive optimisations and restarts.
Some are probably asking: but Apple puts out combo updaters now, why not use them?
My answer: sure, tack the latest Combo updater at the end of the mpkg install list and you will be assured of a more stable update. There is plenty of initial research which indicate that the combo updaters change more files than sequentially applying the incremental updaters. I suspect some of these changed files are due to small interim security updates being rolled into the combo updater.
This blog has gone pretty quiet recently, despite the fact there is plenty more to say.
Also, this blog is not limited to discussing Mac S/W hacks. The following hardware related news has caught my interest recently.
The intent of these projects is to sell Apple Macs that are built from spare parts and assembled in non apple cases. This seems to work out cheaper than Apple's retail and is the closest I've yet seen to a legit mac clone solution in years.
