It’s automation taken to the absurd? Or is it? Niklas Roy (Berlin, Germany) has an old storefront with a big window facing towards the street. He’s installed a small but small smart curtain, in the shop window. Take an laptop, and camera and hook them into the motorized curtain, and there’s a small but smart […]
I ran into a situation earlier that I needed to bulk rename the file extension on a couple thousand files…. The first hurtle was that a majority of the files had a “\” Â (or was it “/”?) in it. Â Since I am on a Unix platform, it appears that the os.listdir function wasn’t able to […]
One of the improvements in Parallels v6 is better support for Time Machine, if you are using a Disk Image based backup (eg. Not using a Boot Camp Partition). Â Sadly, there doesn’t appear to be any backup improvements for us Boot Camp users… According to Parallels: One of the ways to back up your virtual […]
Microsoft has been making alot of noise lately about how they will be supplying software to allow Windows System 7 System Phones will support Macintosh Syncing. Â Well, I don’t want to look a gift horse in the mouth, but Microsoft has promised quite a bit in the past, and rarely delivers everything they promise. Microsoft […]
The utility Winclone has been invaluable to me, it easily backups and restores Windows Boot Camp partitions…. Â But the developer has had some issues updating it to work with Windows 7…. A while back, he discontinued updating Winclone, and was convinced by the users to not discontinue the application… Â But, it appears that the author […]
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We’ve all seen it. Â The little “On My Mac” label in Apple Mail, or Entourage’s “On My Computer” label… Almost every modern mail package offers a similar feature, but many people don’t understand what this means… Â So here’s the scoop. There are three different major ways to handle email: Post Office Protocol (POP 3) IMAP […]
A New Steam update has hit the streets, included in it is full support for the Apple Snow Leopard Graphics update… Â So, hopefully a nice burst in video speed… A Steam client update is now available. To apply the update, click the File menu inside of Steam and then select “Check for Steam Client Updates…”. […]