Archive for the ‘Apple’ Category
Recently, I had a discussion with an IT team, struggling with managing over 100 desktops. Currently, they don’t use any centralized directory for authentication and access. While it surprised me, they had some reasons why. In the discussion, I recommended moving in this direction. One of their hurdles is that they manage a multi-platform desktop [...]
Many folks with a first generation MacBook laptop are well aware of the list of issues that have shown up on them over the past three years. Some of the top things I have seen are the staining that occurs on the wrist wrest due to Apple’s poor choice in a plastic, and the habit [...]
Apple’s move to make the unibody MacBook become the low-end of the MacBook Pro line marked a few changes. Most notably, the addition of FireWire 800 and the “non replaceable battery”. The change of the battery made upgrading a hard drive slightly more difficult, as there is no panel that opens to do that anymore. [...]
Have you ever upgraded the hard drive in your Windows PC? It’s usually not a big deal, right? You open the side of the case, undo the data and power cables from the drive, and remove some screws. Moments later, you’re installing the replacement. Mac’s have not always been the most friendly machines to perform [...]
iStat for iPhone is a great application that gives you remote monitoring of essential Mac workstations or servers.
Handbrake is a wonderful, open-source, utility for converting DVD movies to other formats. In my case, I use it to convert my DVD collection for use on my Apple TV. It works great. Today, a new version (0.93) was released. It includes a long list of improvements from GUI updates to fixes for the lingering [...]
When I bought my first iPhone, and read the many reviews online, there was the occasional murmur from geeks wishing for a tethering solution for their iPhone. Tethering is the process of linking your phone to your computer, and using the phones data connection on your laptop. While i thought it would be kind [...]
(source) Like most iPhone owners this weekend, I was having a blast with the new 2.0 software. Also as a .Mac user, I have watched the painful Mobile Me transition unfold (well, it still is). While waiting for the Mobile Me rollercoaster to stop, I spent a lot of time experimenting with or reading about [...]
The day apple released the iPhone, and in the process, provided only minimal support for its own .Mac service – I was perplexed. What the heck were they thinking? Every other Apple solution allowed for total syncing of Mail, Contacts, Calendars, Bookmarks, and more. Why didn’t the iPhone? In the age of ActiveSync, Blackberry Enterprise, [...]
I read an article today on Gizmodo (actually, It was more of seeing a screenshot), about someone claiming to have 150 applications going on their Macbook Pro with 4GB of ram. They included this screenshot to “prove” it. Several commenters pointed out that there weren’t 150 different apps going, and not even close to that [...]
