Why has my OS X dock icon disappeared?

Wednesday, 10th November 2010

So after finding that one of my dock icons appeared pixelated, I recently experienced some of my dock icons become invisible.

I’m not sure what caused it although I think I was running low on disk space at the time so it may have been memory related. All I did to fix it was re-drag the application into the dock and the icon reappeared. There’s also a discussion in the Apple support forums about disappearing icons.


JavaScript moveTo(0, 0) not working in FireFox OS X

Friday, 15th January 2010

Here’s a weird JavaScript FireFox bug…

In OS X, for some reason the following javascript was not positioning the FireFox browser window to the top left of the screen.

window.moveTo(0, 0);

Solution

Not sure what causes the problem but it seems to work find if you position the window 1 pixel lower.

window.moveTo(0, 1);

Mac SOAP Client – Fixed for OS X Leopard

Wednesday, 28th October 2009

Upgraded to OS X Snow Leopard, Yeah…
Mac SOAP Client for OS X not working, boo…

Mac SOAP Client
Mac SOAP Client for OS X is a great little app which can be used to access and query XML Web Services. I was very disappointed that after upgrading to Snow Leopard the XML result preview tab kept crashing the application.

Fortunately the application is now an open source project available on Google Code and it was only a short matter of time before someone came up with a fix – thank you Howard.


Why is my OS X dock icon pixelated?

Tuesday, 20th October 2009

Why is my Safari icon pixelated?

No idea why or how this happened.

Seemed to happen not long after upgrading to OS X Snow Leopard. Had a search around and found other people had been experiencing blurry/pixelated dock icons too. Also, this thread on the Apple Support web site.

Anyway, I just dragged the Safari application into the dock again and that fixed it for me – weird…