Today I’ve opened a rarely used file on my computer. And got the weirdest message in ages: ”file is locked because you haven’t made any changes to it recently”. After a quick search I became apparent Apple has a new feature to auto-lock files.
How to disable the feature

Goto the System Preference menu;
Click the Time Machine settings menu;
Click the [...]

My MacBook pro with Os X Lion is very slow when coming out off suspension.
I’ve got a new Apple MacBook pro with Os X Lion last week. After the upgrade i’ve noticed a problem after suspension (sleep/ wakeup) with the internet connection. Compared with my older Apple MacBook pro (early 2008) with Snow Leopard, internet [...]

File sharing between computers at my home use smb/ samba connection. I also have an Apple Macbook, so why use a protocol by Microsoft? Apple’s Finder supports afp (appletalk) file share protocol by default, curious about it i’ve installed Netatalk on my Debian 4.0 lenny server. You cannot get filesharing working by using the default [...]

I’m using the Apple FileVault encryption tool that comes with Leopard as standard. There are a view problems with it.
One of them is: “resetting default applications preferences”. Extensions in Leopard are linked to Applications. The FileVault has a bug. It’s possible to change the extension preference but when restarting all defaults will reset.
Solution

Download a program called Lingon.
Add a new [...]