I’ve often predicted that Google will buy Apple in the near future. As of today, my prediction has changed.
A bit of quick math has shown me that Apple’s stock has surpassed a price of $138 with 869,640,000 shares reflecting a market capitalization of 120 billion. Meanwhile, Google’s 312,140,000 shares were valued at $515 totalling a market cap of $160 billion.
As of today, it looks more like a merger. 
Apple is selling refurbished iPhones online at the Apple Store for the first time.
Both the 4GB and 8GB models are available at $100 off their normal price- would you snap one up for $399 or $499?
When you reload a Web page in Safari 3 (by clicking the Reload icon or by pressing Command-R in Mac OS X or Ctrl-R in Safari Beta 3.x for Windows), cache files are bypassed. You don’t need to hold Shift or any other modifier keys. What a breath of fresh air!
I’ve been using the excellent CrashPlan software from Code42 pretty ever since I saw it demoed at MacWorld. CrashPlan allows you to do nearly effortless secure, offsite backup.
Each release of the software brings more control to the operation of the backup engine, but I wanted more control. I wanted to completely turn it off while I was at home so that it wouldn’t be using any of my precious bandwidth.
After a bit of investigation, I found that the java engine was controlled with SystemStarter. By issuing certain the following commands, I was able to start and stop the engine at will.
sudo SystemStarter start “CrashPlanService”
sudo SystemStarter stop “CrashPlanService”
Using this knowledge, I put together my final system crontab:
30 7 * * * root SystemStarter stop “CrashPlanService”
30 9 * * 1,2,3,4,5 root SystemStarter start “CrashPlanService”
0 18 * * 1,2,3,4,5 root SystemStarter stop “CrashPlanService”
30 23 * * * root SystemStarter start “CrashPlanService”
It seems that there are no current NES emulators on MacOSX that can play the NES verison of Super Mario Brothers. I just spent nearly 3 hours trying to get it to work. I finally resorted to some very old versions of RockNES in order to play. ugh..
Yiles- like yikes, but more refined.
Quentin at Rogue Amoeba reports that he’s found requests for track ID information being sent out from the Airport Express following the latest firmware update. Could a display or TV-out be far behind?
Apple’s spotlight tips page details the common ways to customize spotlight searches:
At long last I’ve managed to configure dual network interfaces on my mac. With the help of split-routing and Alberth Matos, I’ve managed to get two interfaces working simulataneously.
Interface 1: Airport Extreme (my fast internet connection)
Interface 2: Gigabit Ethernet (for lan connections)
The order of the interfaces is set in the Network Preferences as above.
Each interface is configured as it would be to access its respective network. DNS for the local network is entered in both configs and the following command is used to configure the routing table:
sudo route add 10.0.0.0/8 10.2.204.20
Where 10.0.0.0 is the local netmask and 10.2.204.20 is the local router address.
The route tables need to be updated upon network location change or reboot. I’m now investigating the best way to handle this.