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Safely Installing Front Row on Lion

I read at Macworld.com that Apple's Front Row has been removed from Mac OS X 10.7 Lion. They also include instructions on how to install Front Row on Lion, by copying off the binaries from a Snow Leopard installation, and then copying them into your /System folders on Lion.

I'm not a heavy user of Front Row so I am ambivalent about its removal. But the instructions on how to install Front Row really bother me. This is a really dangerous thing to do. The /System folder is reserved for Apple, and you could break your system badly by mucking with these directories. Don't do it.

So as an alternative, I will document how you can run Front Row on Lion without doing anything bad to your Lion system. …

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Sunday, July 31, 2011 9:47 PM

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iBank 4 vs. SEE Finance: Buh-bye Quicken

With Mac OS X 10.7 Lion now shipping, I am in process of upgrading. But I am one of those poor unfortunate souls that use Quicken for Mac. It came with some of my Mac's way back so I started using it. I'm not particularly fond of it, but it generally worked, Inertia speaks. But as many of you know, Intuit failed to update Quicken and has relied on Rosetta which no longer ships on Lion.

A large part of my Quicken usage is to track investments so Quicken Financial Life or Essentials is not an option for me. I am also still too paranoid/resistant to online services that track everything in one place, so I don't use those. In a nutshell, I have started looking for a replacement. …

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Friday, July 29, 2011 1:00 AM

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LuaCocoa v0.3 Released

I am happy to announce the third public release of LuaCocoa (v. 0.3).

This version is mostly a Xcode 4 and Lion compatibility release, but also includes a handful of improvements.


Release Notes for v 0.3: (Xcode 4 / Lion compatibility changes, final PowerPC release?)

- Changed LuaCocoa to use the non-'Full' .bridgesupport files instead of the 'Full' bridgesupport files because Lion removed the 'Full' versions without warning.

- As fallout from this change, LuaCocoa no longer requires Obj-C classes to be fully specified in BridgeSupport data to refer to them in Lua code (i.e. Using NSClassFromString to refer to a is no longer necessary to refer to an unspecified class.)

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Tuesday, July 26, 2011 2:40 AM

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