It turns out that the Magic Mouse is fine, it’s the Mac Pro that has problems. This issue is not, as is commonly reported, that the metal case of the Mac Pro impedes the signal. In fact, the antennae are hooked up incorrectly in many of the units. A number of Mac Pros were shipped […]
Technically, you can run two 10/100 network lines, with a standard cat 5 cable. Â That is because a 10/100 network line only uses 4 of the 8 wires inside a cat 5 line. I do not recommend this though. Â Doing so, prevents you from uses 1 Gbs networking, and/or Power over Ethernet. If you do […]
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 […]
From the clip pad files from 2008 & Life Hacker… A trick that I keep intending to do for cable management… Hide Your Cables in Your Baseboards and Crown Molding [DIY]: Hide your networking and television cables with WireTracks, a wire management solution that hides your messy cables behind crown molding and baseboards. The WireTracks […]