Archive for the 'Apple' Category
I’d heard of ‘Hackintosh’ and various attempts people have made to build their own computer to run Mac OS X, but I wondered if Mac OS X would run on a new computer I had just built — surely not, but I decided to find out.
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May 18th, 2008 | Posted in Mac, OS X | No Comments
After deciding that I would use Sun Solaris and its ZFS file system as the foundation for a home fileserver, the next part was to select compatible hardware, as Solaris has fairly limited driver support for hardware.
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March 2nd, 2008 | Posted in Fileserver, Mac, OS X, Software, Storage, ZFS | 68 Comments
After my Panasonic DMR-EH57 HDD/DVD video recorder refused to play DivX format video from DVD+R discs recorded on my Mac Pro’s ‘SuperDrive’, I looked for a solution and found one, which I will now describe.
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January 2nd, 2008 | Posted in Apple, Hardware, How To, Mac, OS X, Software, Storage | 2 Comments
After using Leopard for a week or so, here are my first impressions but, overall, it seems like quite an improvement over the last version of Mac OS X, which was already pretty good.
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November 4th, 2007 | Posted in Apple, Mac, OS X, Software | No Comments
With the ubiquity of digital cameras and camcorders, it is becoming ever easier to record and organise your family memories and, ironically, the safety of these recorded memories is becoming ever more jeopardised due to the flawed nature of recording media such as CD ROMs, DVDs and hard drives.
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October 28th, 2007 | Posted in Apple, Computers, Hardware, Mac, Music, Photography, Software, Storage | No Comments
If you have an Apple Mac and have been thinking of upgrading the memory in it, it pays to shop around, as there is a huge difference in prices to be found.
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October 26th, 2007 | Posted in Apple, Hardware, Mac | No Comments
Adding a second internal SATA 2 hard drive can make your normally whisper-quiet Mac Pro quite a bit noisier. Here’s a solution that worked for me.
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January 3rd, 2007 | Posted in Apple, Mac, OS X | 2 Comments
I bought a new Mac recently and was thinking of how I was going to get the new machine configured to work in the same way as the old one.
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November 22nd, 2006 | Posted in Apple, Mac, OS X | No Comments
Having been a Windows, Linux and Mac OS X user, amongst others, I prefer Mac OS X. Let’s take a brief look at what each OS offers you.
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November 12th, 2006 | Posted in Apple, Computers, Mac, OS X, Software | No Comments
If you think that some text on your display is hard to read then there just might be a way to improve it.
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November 4th, 2006 | Posted in OS X | No Comments
I have been a Mac user only since Christmas 2004 and I can say that it was a great decision to go out and buy one. The operating system Mac OS X is the Rolls Royce of operating systems. The power, stability and security of UNIX (FreeBSD) underneath the hood, with the beauty and elegance [...]
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December 4th, 2005 | Posted in Apple, Mac, OS X | No Comments
I’m not quite sure what to make of Mac OS X widgets. When Tiger first came out in April 2005 I must admit that I was looking forward to checking them out. However, to be honest, since then I haven’t really used them much, so I suppose I’m not really sold on them. However…
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December 3rd, 2005 | Posted in Apple, OS X | No Comments