- Sat Dec 12 3:19 PM PST 2009 Weekly Utilities Updates and Review: NTFS-3G
A weekly list of the Mac troubleshooting utilities that have been updated, along with a mini review for NTFS-3G.
- Mon Nov 16 5:45 PM PST 2009 Installing OS X with a broken optical drive
Sometimes you may need to reinstall OS X on a computer, but the drive is broken, resulting in an obvious problem with reading the installation DVD. Here are some methods to install OS X around a broken optical drive.
- Wed Oct 7 3:27 PM PDT 2009 Cloud computing and the big rethink: Part 3
After exploring the role that changing infrastructure is having on the importance of traditional operating systems and virtual servers, it's time to look at the most powerful force in the cloud computing galaxy: the developer.
- Tue Sep 29 9:46 AM PDT 2009 Options for writing to NTFS formatted drives in Mac OS X
One of Apple's selling points for OS X is the enhanced Windows compatibility, but the lack of write ability to NTFS drives makes transferring files between the Mac OS and Bootcamp rather cumbersome. Luckily, third-party utilities enable this missing featu
- Thu Sep 17 1:51 PM PDT 2009 The Real Deal 179: Gadget road test
Rafe and Tom talk about the long-term use of gadgets like TiVo, the MiFi, and more.
- Thu Aug 27 5:09 PM PDT 2009 Apple releases a slew of Mac OS X 10.6 knowledgebase documents
In anticipation of a few problems that have cropped up during beta testing of OS X 10.6, Apple has released a number of knowledgebase articles pertaining to the new OS. These articles cover new features, startup problems after installing, and printing
- Wed Aug 5 9:37 AM PDT 2009 The new databases
New techniques and technologies are increasingly augmenting the relational database in large-scale distributed computing.
- Thu Jul 30 2:48 PM PDT 2009 Corruption in DMG disk images
Apple's included support for a variety of disk images in OS X is one of the more convenient aspects of the operating system, allowing you to easily encrypt or otherwise compartmentalize your data for easy organization and management. While disk images
- Tue May 12 12:12 PM PDT 2009 Options for running Windows on your Mac
We're in no doubt that Mac OS X is by far the best operating system out there and we love it tremendously; however, we admit that it is fun to at least mess with other OS platforms, if for nothing more than geeky interest. For decades people have loved to
- Mon Apr 13 8:04 AM PDT 2009 Possible reasons and fixes for Time Machine slowdowns
Time Machine has been a great backup solution that has for the most part worked quite well; however it has not been without its glitches. Despite the majority of initial problems being addressed by Apple, there will be times when the backup process seems
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