Ben Huson » OS X

Why has my OS X dock icon disappeared?

Ben — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 22:49:53 +0000

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

Ben — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 20:37:30 +0000

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

Ben — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 23:28:36 +0000

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

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?

Ben — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 20:24:16 +0000

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…