Forget Time Capsule, I want a Space Ship

January 29, 2008 – 12:30 pm

Apple’s Time Capsule is great. Seriously. When has backup been easier? But I need more.
The MacBook Air’s small storage highlights a problem I’ve been suffering for some time: there’s never enough storage. The slower processor and limited RAM expansion are sufferable, but storage isn’t. The 120GB drive in my MacBook Pro now is stuffed with [...]

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Apache, MySQL, and PHP on MacOS X

January 24, 2008 – 12:07 pm

p0ps Harlow tweeted something about trying to get an AMP environment running on his Mac. Conversation followed, and eventually I sent along an email that look sorta like this:
If you’re running 10.4 (I doubt it, but it’s worth mentioning because I’m most familiar with it), here’s how I’ve setup dozens of machines for web development [...]

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Screencasting On Mac

October 17, 2007 – 11:08 am

I’m as annoyed as the next guy about how hard it is to find a decent screencast app for Mac. The forthcoming Mac OS 10.5’s new iChat Theater (and the built-in screen sharing/control features) should create some new opportunities for developers, but right now it’s hard to know what works or is worth trying.
Further, I [...]

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Mac + Cell Phone + Bluetooth + SMS

August 16, 2007 – 11:44 pm

Old instructions that connect the Mac OS X Address Book app to a phone via Bluetooth from O’Reilly and SillyDog. Once paired, the Address Book can initiate dialing, notify the user of incoming calls, and send SMS texts.
Bluetooth Texter SMS Widget, message2net, and BluePhoneElite all offer further tools to interact with your Bluetooth-connected mobile phone. [...]

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Leopard Beta To Be Released At WWDC

May 8, 2007 – 12:31 pm

Those of us hoping for an early release of Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard might be disappointed to learn that Apple will just be getting around to giving out a ?feature complete? beta at WWDC in mid-June. If you really must have it, conference badges are $1,295.
The Leopard beta. Available first at WWDC.
At the Apple [...]

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How To: Zip Files on Mac OS X

April 26, 2007 – 12:48 pm

It couldn’t be much easier. I’d previously posted command line instructions, but it turns out that there’s a huge number of people who don’t know the easy way: just CTRL-click on the file and select ?Create Archive…? You’ll also find the option in the File menu. Either way, you’ll end up with both the original [...]

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My Personal Crisis of Digital Preservation

March 21, 2007 – 12:20 pm

For a long time I was a big fan of Dantz Retrospect Backup. For while I was so committed that I would do an incremental backup of my laptop and most every other computer in my house every day, but I’ve been using it one way or another since 1999 or 2000 or so. All [...]

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Apache 2.2.x on Mac OS X

January 10, 2007 – 12:39 pm

I’m lazy, that’s all I can say to explain why I hadn’t put any serious thought into upgrading from the 1.3.x version of Apache that ships with Mac OS X to the much more feature rich 2.0.x or 2.2.x. But today I found reason enough to switch my development to 2.2.3, and I went looking [...]

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NewerTech FireWire 2 Go PCMCIA/CardBus Card Target Disk Mode?

September 7, 2006 – 1:31 am

All my searching seems to confirm my hazy memory that my olf NewerTech FireWire 2 Go card does indeed support target disk mode, but the old ?hold T while booting? trick doesn’t seem to be working. Another shady part of my memory is that the key command was different, but what is it? Either Google [...]

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Mac OS X VNC, Built-In

September 6, 2006 – 5:55 pm

 

Sure it’s old news, but I am pretty happy that Mac OS X 10.4 has a built-in VNC server.
You’ll still need a client, like Chicken of the VNC, but it couldn’t be much simpler to make work. Though, you could run a separate server app (even several instances of it) and work up [...]

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FrontRow For Everybody

December 8, 2005 – 9:22 pm

Via an IM from Ryan Eby: a pointer to Andrew Escobar’s directions on how to install Apple?s Front Row.
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Mac Wireless Card Compatibility

October 3, 2005 – 12:14 pm

In case you’re looking: Metaphyzx’s Mac OS Wireless Adapter Compatibility List.

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Enabling .htaccess On Mac OS X

August 30, 2005 – 7:39 pm

I do a lot of web development on my laptop. I’ve got Apache and PHP there, so it’s really convenient, but I usually move projects off to other server before I get around to wanting to mess with mod_rewrite. Not so, recently, but I ran into a big stumbling block when I discovered OS X’s [...]

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Alt Browser

August 18, 2005 – 7:39 pm

Shiira Project, an Apple WebKit-based browser with some interesting features.
Sadly, it also brings page transitions to the Mac. Let’s hope these don’t become the new <blink> .

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Apple Releases Multi-Button Mouse

August 2, 2005 – 5:33 am

Apple this morning released the Mighty Mouse ($49 at the Apple Store). With a scrollball, left and right click, and side buttons, it’s a big departure from Apple’s old opposition to multi-button mice. Apple didn’t invent the mouse, but they were probably the first to put mice through usability testing. One, two, and three button [...]

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