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Version 1.2 of the popular iStat Menus utility for Mac OS X has been released. It includes a bunch of visual enhancements and better support for G4-era machines.

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I’ve been using Mac OS X and WinXP Pro on my Macbook Pro for a while. One thing I noticed is that the system’s clock shifts a few hours back and forth across OS reboots, a problem for which I had no explanation until now.

[...] Windows XP reads and writes the hardware clock in terms of the local time zone. If UTC is 12:00 and I’m in GMT+2 Windows will write the time to the hardware clock as 14:00. Mac OS X on the other hand assumes that the hardware clock is set to UTC, and therefore displays the time as 16:00 after I reboot from Windows into OS X.

While I wait for a fix from Apple – I doubt Microsoft cares about this – in a future Boot Camp update, at least I know the cause.

Thanks to Niels Mäkel at Makel.org for the information.

I just discovered 0xED, a cool hexadecimal editor for Mac OS X. Despite its cryptic name, 0xED is very simple to use (for an hex editor, anyway) and boasts extra features that are not available in Hex Fiend or the Classic-era HexEdit. Oh, and it’s Universal, too.

The preferred way for distributing OS X applications is through disk images, or DMG files. The great thing about DMG files is that they are self-contained. In most cases, you can even lauch the application from the mounted image itself.
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