Take this quote from Macworld: When we connected the MacBook Pro to a 2TB Western Digital My Book Studio drive and copied a 1GB file to it from the internal hard drive, we found that it took 23 percent less time over FireWire 400 than over USB 2.0. Duplicating that file using FireWire 400 on […]
Sorry, couldn’t resist the bad joke…. But what is “EMUL.Kext”?  It’s in the extensions directory, and I can’t place it… Well, the only references I can find to this is EMUL.Kext, appears to be part of the EarthMate Userland Library.  The EarthMate User Library provides access to the usb device via libusb and POSIX threads. Target […]
Here’s how to clear the web browser cache, on the majority of the web browsers… Internet Explorer 8 From the Safety menu in the upper right, click Delete Browsing History… . Check Temporary Internet files, Cookies, and History, and then click Delete. Internet Explorer 7 From the Tools menu in the upper right, select Delete […]
Question: Ubuntu has a feature where application windows can be set to be always on top of other windows. Is this possible in Mac? Check out Afloat. it will add many window management features to most Mac applications: Keep windows afloat (heh) on top of all others. Pin windows to the desktop (new!) Move windows from anywhere, […]
Let me get this straight…? Apple is evil, because anyone can release software for it, but it has to go through a vetting (approval) process. An approval process that may reject the application, but you can then resubmit, etc… But the iPhone is a relatively open system, one where web applications require no approval, and […]
VVMware has released an update to Fusion Desktop v3.0. v3.01 is now available, the highlights of the changes are: Improved 3D & Video Performance: Improved WDDM driver and 3D backend improvements speed up some applications and tests up to 80% on Mac OS X Snow Leopard Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala): Full support for Ubuntu 9.10 […]
According to the Technologizer, a Google representative has finally stated that Snow Leopard & Gears are not incompatible, but instead there is a bug that they are working at to resolve. Obviously, this isn’t a high priority? After all, it’s been four months since Snow Leopard was released…. And I personally discovered this issue with […]
What’s a monitor refresh rate? And what does it do? That’s a multifaceted question, but here we go. The “Vertical Refresh Rate” is the number of times a second that the video is displayed on the CRT monitor. (On LCD monitors, a vertical refresh is a fixed rate, and does not change…) Older CRT monitors […]