Posts Tagged ‘mac’

I know. You may be a guy or gal working in an office. Or, you may be a penny-pinching startup CEO like me. But even I justified paying $275 for an Intel X25-M SSD. And, I’ve got the perfect example of why it makes business sense. Sure, 17 second startups are great. But, I am [...]

I’m going to raise something interesting here, but at first you might think I’m nuts. I think Apple should profile their customers, and give some of them ProCare for free. Take a deep breath, I haven’t lost it. ProCare provides some Apple-centric users powerful tools at the Apple Store. It used to also include One [...]

So, you were all happy that the new HP MediaSmart home servers finally gave you a choice other than the anti-trust Time Capsule to do backups remotely… in the home. And, you are now ready to run out and buy one, blindfolds on to any compatibility issues. Sorry, I once again have to burst your [...]

Here’s a Christmas gift I wasn’t expecting… Kega Fusion has been ported to Mac OS X! Kega Fusion is one of the most popular SEGA Genesis + CD + 32X emulators out there, and the developer has just finished porting it as his first Mac app. This really opens up a lot of potential for [...]

It appears that the latest Microsoft Office 2008 update (12.1.13), has the same bug the last version did. Namely, if you strip the unnecessary foreign language translations (using a tool like Youpi Optimizer, Monolingual, or even Finder)… the updater will complain that there aren’t any viable installations available. And yes, this is a bug. Apple [...]

If you’ve been using Google Gears for Mac, you might have noticed sometimes that the Gears setup for a particular web site… sometimes vanishes. You have to re-enable Gears for each web site which you had approved it for. Why is this? Well, Google is deploying the Gears setup inside of /Users/yourname/Library/Cache (or, ~/Library/Cache as [...]

I’m just wrapping up an all-day restoration of my MacBook Pro… complete with clean install of Leopard. I was at a lunch the day before, talking up how my MacBook Pro has been running without a hitch, while everyone else was complaining about MacBook failures. I was asking for it… and boy did I get [...]

Along with MobileMe’s launch came the lack of a feature that was in .Mac: Web Bookmark access. Now, most would say that Apple’s primary excuse for gutting the feature would be that most people didn’t use it. And, I’m sure parsing sync data to display bookmarks in a web format might have taken some adaptation [...]

Having trouble installing the MobileMe update that was just released? You’re not alone. The workaround at present is to sign out of .Mac (from inside System Preferences), and the sign in again. After a minute you should get a dialogue to open Apple Software Update. If you don’t, download from the link below… I’m hosting [...]

A huge, huge part of MechaWorks is going to be focused on software development. But, there’s one little problem: I can’t code. Now, that’s not as huge of a problem as it sounds; I’m great at leading programmers. I can diagram and explain every Mac OS X API, I’m able to tell people why things [...]