Apple says that Mac OS doesn’t need defragmentation unlike Windows machine. Partially, it is true, but not always, some articles say. According to the articles I found, OS X’s file system does take care of fragmentation, but it covers limitedly and fragmentation progresses eventually, then it makes your OS X loads go up. So I tried iDefrag 2. The bottom line is that I tired but I couldn’t use it and keep trying.

I found this tumblr account “Safari extensions” just after the release of Safari 5. You can see that a lot of new extensions for safari 5 are being released. Some issue I had have been already resolved by them. What I needed the most was a function to restore the last session when Safari runs, and you can find a extension for that function. Still safari 5 + its extensions are missing very important function for me, which chrome + its extensions have, but it’s just a matter of time. It is somewhat easy to develop extensions for safari 5. and it seems to be similar to chrome extensions, so once Apple opens official gallery, it would be get up steam and much more number of extensions would be released.

Just started using Safari 5. There were so many reasons I want to use safari, or I don’t want to use safari. I used to use Opera, Safari, Firefox, Safari again, Chrome…. but I just decided that I’m gonna use Safari 5 as primary browser. It is really fast. Recently, chrome’s kept getting slow and use much more RAM. Somehow, load gets so high when I play flash video. Sometime, a process of a tab opening Gmail gets high load weirdly. Using safari 5, much much less load while playing youtube(what makes difference?) or anything, run quickly, no wait, much much less RAM use, benefit of Cocoa like “look up in Dictionary”. I know there are less extension for Safari, but you can find enough. you can use most Greasemonkey script, using GreaseKit. Good thing was you can use LastPass. so I don’t need to care about password thing because I was using it on Chrome also. Anyway, you should try Safari 5. You’ll be impressed about its speed. I hope a lot of good extensions for Safari will be released.

Most of SIMBL plugin works with Safari 4 seem to be compatible with safari 5, but some SIMBL plugin sometimes make safari 5 crash. I stopped using SafariTabConfig, SafariTabMemento. Also Glims behaves suspiciously, so cut. I want browser to re-open the last session when it runs, do you know the way to do that without Glims? I want a pin function like Chrome on Safari also…

先日Macbook分解掃除をしましたが、やはりCPU温度上昇の根本的解決には至らず、直後なんとなく清々しい気持ちだったのもさっさと消え失せ、どうにかせねばという気持ちでおりました。そんなおり、とうとうFanからすさまじい音がしたので、Fanを置換することにいたしました。と思ったけど、すさまじい音も1回10秒くらい鳴ってからは元通りだし、Fan君6000rpmくらい普通にまわるし、空気はちゃんと吸い込まれて排出されているので、この異常な熱は他に原因があるはずと色々考えた結果、CPUのシリコングリスを塗り直してみようと思い立ったのは先週。Thermal greaseとついでに新しいFan（いや、絶対変えた方がいいｗ）を注文したのがおととい届いたので、時間があった今日再び分解、Fan置換、シリコングリスの塗り直しに挑戦しました。

最近ファンが若干変な音するし、負荷が上がると同時に凄い勢いでCPUの温度も上がるし、本格的に壊れてもらったらとてもとても困るので、その前にとMacbookを分解掃除しました。下手にやって逆に壊してしまったら嫌だなぁと少しナーバスだったんですが、やったら意外と簡単でしたよ。このページを参考に、慎重に慎重に遂行しました。

I wrote the article introducing how to use SIMBL with 64bit Safari before. Now new SIMBL, which is compatible with 64bit, has been released as beta version(0.9.1b). You never have to load SIMBL as web-plugin as this article.

You can download it here.

PS(2009/9/8): with 0.9.1b, once you restart computer, SIMBL is not loaded automatically. Just after installation it is. This problem has been solved with 0.9.2b. It’s also available at here.

canberlandの日記:SafariSIMBL (SIMBL for Safari 64bit)経由。特に難しいことは何もない。作者様に感謝。WebPluginとして呼び出すので、特定のHTMLファイルを起動の度に読み込まなければいけないのだけれど、Gmailなど、普段常駐するWebアプリだけで動作するようにGreaseKitかなんかで組んでしまえば大丈夫だろう。あとで作ろっと。ちなみに、SIMBLプラグイン自体が64bitに対応している必要がある。Safari Standはまだだ。GreaseKitとかSafariGestureとかいけるよ。

32bitで我慢して使おうと思ってたけど、Ctrl+Cmd+dで呼び出せる辞書アプリを使ったらしょちゅう暴走するし、他でも同じ現象があったので、これはCocoaでも32bitアプリから辞書は呼び出さない方が良さそうだと判断し、どうしてもSafariを64bitで使いたかった。それになぜか、32bitでSafariを動かしているとGmailが動作しなかった。これは致命的。原因不明。俺の環境だけかなぁ？

I mentioned about iStat Menus before. Everyone needs iStat Menus, which work in Snow Leopard. The author said “Sorry, we’re not giving out any more copies of the iStat Menus 2.0 beta. Those who have tested it have really helped us though. Thanks.”

However, I found it uploaded. It is not safe. It might contain virus or something like that. If you are brave, try it. I think this would be removed immediately, so get it soon. Here.

Snow Leopardネタ続きます。今日のTipsはメニューバーのアイテムのOption-クリック。

Continuously, this is also Snow Leopard tips.

• バッテリーをOptionクリックするとConditionが見られる
• 音量アイコンをOptionクリックすると、デバイスを変更できる。
• WiFiアイコンをOptionクリックすると接続中のネットワークの詳細が見れる。

• Option-click the battery menu item to check the battery’s condition.
• Option-click the sound menu item to select input and output audio devices.
• Option-click the WiFi menu item to check the detail of WiFi network you’re connecting to.

という感じ。全部は調べてないですが、いつもMenuバーにある分だけ試してみたらとりあえずこの3つを発見。とくにサウンドに関する設定は結構便利かも。

That’s it. I didn’t research every menu items, but at least I found these three in menu items which I display on menu bar usually. Especially, I like sound device selecting thing. It seems to be very convenient.

（via @bjango）

とりあえず動いてないiStat Menusですが、数日中に新バージョンがでる模様。公式サイトでは「very soon」としか書いてないですが、作者が先ほど以下のようにTweetしておりました。
iStat Pro, iStat Nano and iStat Server are all a-ok under Snow Leopard. iStat Menus 2.0 will be released in the next few days.
数日中だそうです。週明けにはSnow Leopard対応版がリリースされるかな？わくわく。

追記(2009/9/1): 2.0のBeta版を発見。