From MacOSXHints… At my office, I needed to find a way to turn of the wireless network when someone plugged in their network cable. I also did not want them to be able to turn the wireless network back on until the network cable was unplugged. I came up with the fallowing solution. I created […]
There’s plenty of talk here about Home Automation, but what if you want to control your home automation via your home theatre? Â Here is an article from Automated Home, that discusses integrating the Plex Home Theatre plugin with Indigo for access to your home automation while sitting on your couch / loveseat / etc… Automated […]
Yeah! Microsoft is selling cars? I got this one via email, and I’ve seen variants of it elsewhere: i thought office was coming out this year, why is the name of it office 2011? Our naming is like that of cars: if it comes out in the first half of the year, it gets that […]
Right from the horses mouth…: Steam on the Mac will behave just like Steam for Windows, but through Steam Play will add cross-platform ownership. That means if you own Left 4 Dead 2 for Windows, then you already own it for the Mac. There’s no need to buy it twice! Unless you want to buy […]
Leading Gaming Service Expands to Mac Platform Valve announced today it will bring Steam, Valve's gaming service, and Source, Valve's gaming engine, to the Mac. Steam and Valve's library of games including Left 4 Dead 2, Team Fortress 2, Counter-Strike, Portal, and the Half-Life series will be available in April. “As we transition from entertainment […]
Since installing Mac OS X 10.6, whenever I empty the trash, it takes about 50x as long as it used to under 10.5. I just emptied about 100 files (totaling 50 megs / all local files), and it was about 20 minutes. It feels like its doing a secure delete, but I’m just using the […]
All versions of Mac OS X, at least past 10.2, can read NTFS. USB, Firewire, network drive, doesn’t matter… According to Wikipedia, it supports HFS+ (default), HFS, UFS, AFP, ISO 9660, FAT, UDF, NFS, SMBFS, NTFS (read only), FTP, WebDAV, ZFS (experimental). Snow Leopard, assuming you re-install the boot camp drivers, allows your Windows OS […]
John Stokes, discusses the A4 (iPad Processor), and the A8… Â Comparing and contrasting what we know about each processor… The A4 and the A8: secrets of the iPad’s brain.