Archive for October, 2011

Using IOKit to Detect Graphics Hardware

Friday, October 21st, 2011

After Seasonality Core 2 was released a couple of weeks ago, I received email from a few users reporting problems they were experiencing with the app. The common thread in all the problems was having a single graphics card (in this case, it was the nVidia 7300). When the application launched, there would [...]

File Vault 2 on the 2011 MacBook Air

Thursday, October 20th, 2011

I recently upgraded to a 2011 MacBook Air. With the new Sandy Bridge processors having encryption routines built-in, I decided to try out File Vault 2 on Lion to see what kind of performance impact it would have while accessing the disk. Here’s the configuration of my MacBook Air for reference:
11″ MacBook Air [...]

When the App Store thinks an app is installed when it really isn’t

Wednesday, October 5th, 2011

I was trying to figure out a problem where the Mac App Store incorrectly thought an application was installed on my Mac. For the life of me, I couldn’t figure out why it thought that app was installed when it wasn’t. I tried deleting caches, restarting the Mac, Spotlighting for all apps with [...]