Posts Tagged ‘mac’
iStat
In: Geek Finds
12 Apr 2010iStat Pro is a handy (and free) widget for Mac OS X that shows key stats about your machine at a glance: CPU & memory usage, network stats, temperature, fan RPM, and power usage. It’s particularly handy to see your IP, both internal & external, as well as the temps of key hardware. iStat for [...]
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- Tags: iphone, mac
Make Mac Work
In: Geek Finds
1 Jun 2009I came across MakeMacWork.com last week when researching best practices for Retrospect. MakeMacWork is an awesome blog focused on Macs in enterprise environments. I particularly appreciated today’s tip about the 10.5.7 update affecting PPC machines. I was also excited to read their article on configuring default user template; their method is much more concise than [...]
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- Tags: apple, links, mac
VirtualBox Bests Parallels
In: Geek Finds|Review
25 Mar 2009A few weeks ago my Parallels stopped working. I’d launch the app and immediately be told it was not responding and to force quit. I restored Parallels (files, prefs, .hdd) from backup, but no dice. I had been unhappy with Parallels for a while – it was a resource hog, starting the VM and booting [...]
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- Tags: mac, virtualization, windows
Font School
In: Geek Finds|News
19 Mar 2009The Apple Blog has spent this week poising a very nice series on fonts in OS X. Monday was the 101 introduction, subsequent topics included management, troubleshooting, and additional resources. It was nice to see the positive reviews & usage for Linotype FontExplorer X, the free font manager we’ve been using in the ZCoB. Font [...]
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- Tags: fonts, mac
Color Your MacBook
In: Geek Goods
15 Mar 2009We’re fans of the see-thru, hard cases by Speck for the MacBooks; we’ve purchased several for MacBooks in the ZCoB. The MacBook case is plastic, fairly sturdy but not as tough as the aluminium MacBook Pro cases. The hard covers by Speck add another layer of protection, preventing chips, cracks, and scratches. Speck’s cases are [...]
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- Tags: apple, favorites, mac
Free Up Space with Monolingual
In: Geek Finds
15 Mar 2009If you’re like most early adopters of a solid state hard drive, you’re probably doing everything you can to conserve space. One of our Macbook Air users was constantly running up against the storage limits of his new fangled 64GB SSD. There are a number of things that you can do upon a fresh install [...]
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- Tags: apple, mac, os x
New Mac Minis Released Today
In: News
3 Mar 2009Apple has released the new Mac Mini today. The rumor mills were actually right this time. The only real change is the new NVidia graphics cards, which uses the new Mini-Display Port. Added bonus is the Mini DVI output, so you don’t have to go buy a new $30 dongle. Hard drive and processor speed [...]
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- Tags: apple, mac, Mini
Leopard Upgrade Tip
In: techtip
25 Jan 2009I’ve upgraded a couple few different machines now from 10.4 to 10.5, Leopard, and have noticed something: With an in-place upgrade, Leopard hates when your hard drive is named something other than ‘Macintosh HD.’ The problem that manifests is after successfully installing Leopard you’re not able to log in; credentials are accepted but a blue [...]
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- Tags: apple, leopard, mac
Silverlight, Bravo!
In: Geek Finds|Review
3 Nov 2008Not a single XBox owner in the crowd. Silverlight, Micrsoft’s media delivery platform now used by Netflix, is a win for both Macs and PCs. Macs, you can now Watch Instantly. Welcome to the club. High-fives from the PCs. Windows users, things just got better. The annoying media acquisition & digital rights prompts are gone. [...]
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- Tags: mac, netflix, silverlight, windows
Netflix ‘Watch Instantly’ Now On Mac
In: Geek Finds|News
2 Nov 2008Netflix announced on Friday the beta release of Microsoft’s Silverlight for Mac and Windows computers. PC users have been able to watch instantly using Internet Explorer for a few months, leaving Mac users jealous and desperately waiting. Now, thanks to Silverlight, Intel-based Macs (sorry PPC folks) can stream movies and TV with Safari and Firefox. [...]
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- Tags: mac, netflix
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