Tuesday, February 5th, 2008
(Via The Unofficial Apple Weblog.)
If you have been putting off using Time Machine to back up your Mac because of the lack of being able to time backups; you have no excuse now. As many of you already know, Time Machine does a complete system backup at first, then hourly ...
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Monday, February 4th, 2008
(Via Mac OS X Hints.)
I just got a .mac account, use GnuPG, and want Apple's Backup to store my keyring on my iDisk regularly in a custom Backup plan. However, he keyring is by default located at /Users/myuser/.gnupg, which is a hidden folder in the Finder, and that makes Backup's ...
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Monday, February 4th, 2008
(Via LinuxWorld.au.)
Earlier this month, Apple Computer CEO Steve Jobs unveiled new hardware at the company's Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) -- and more importantly, ...
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Thursday, January 10th, 2008
(Via MacNN.)
HighPoint Technologies today updated its RocketRAID 3120 to support Apple's Power Mac G5 and Mac Pro systems under both Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger and 10.5 Leopard. The RocketRAID 3120 is a PCI-Express x1 dual port SATA RAID controller featuring the Marvell 5182 (400MHz) hardware RAID engine and with ...
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Friday, December 28th, 2007
(Via The Unofficial Apple Weblog.)
I asked Santa Steve for iPhone stability, a number of people left comments asking not for iPhone stability but for Leopard stability -- as it seems that not everyone's been enjoying a trouble-free few months with Leopard.Thankfully, if you're waiting with bated breath for OS X ...
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Wednesday, December 5th, 2007
(Via Hawk Wings.)
Like many people (but apparently not all), when I drag an item from the Finder to Mail.app’s Dock icon, it launches two messages, the first without the attachment, the second one with it.
Obviously, this is annoying and I have always regarded it as just that. However, today, a ...
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Wednesday, December 5th, 2007
(Via The Mac Observer.)
The Mac OS X firewall can block some or all inbound connections.
However, to be 100 percent secure, the vigilant Mac OS X user should
also monitor and manage outbound connections. Little Snitch is one program that can
do that
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Friday, November 23rd, 2007
I'm at the end of testing for a new schedule bootable backup routine. It's pretty simple, involving Carbon Copy Cloner and two two-line shell scripts.
Though I like Time Machine quite a bit, it has one gaping hole - the inability to make bootable backups. I've already been through the process ...
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Wednesday, November 21st, 2007
(Via Mac OS X Hints.)
If you want to assign X11 to a Space, go to the Spaces System Preferences panel, and choose to add an application (click the plus sign). Instead of choosing X11.app from the Utilities folder, press Shift-Command-G to bring up the Go to Folder text entry box. ...
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Wednesday, November 21st, 2007
(Via Lifehacker.)
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