After a recent hardware failure I was forced to replace my iMac’s internal hard disk (more on this some other time, perhaps). One of the decisions I made was to move down from a 1TB HDD to a 512GB SSD, so rather than restore from a backup I reinstalled all my applications from scratch and moved my large…
Read detailsAll I wanted to do with mine was to directly connect a USB hard drive. The drive formats supported by the WD TV are FAT32, NTFS, and HFS+ (non-journalled). FAT32 has a 4 gigabyte file size limit which makes it impractical for many HD movies, and NTFS is not natively supported by the Mac.
Read detailsBackground I am a long-time AppleTV user. I have children, so ripping my DVDs and putting them on a hard drive attached to my jailbroken AppleTV is a convenient way to let the kids watch their favourite TV shows and movies. Unfortunately the AppleTV stopped working recently. However I do have an Xbox 360. And since…
Read detailsAs most Mac users probably know, the keyboard command to cycle between applications is ⌘-tab (command-tab). This application switcher is one of the better things that Apple has ‘borrowed’ from Windows over the years{{1}}. However, unlike on Windows, where the equivalent command will cycle through every single window, on the Mac it cycles through applications.…
Read detailsI’ve used Tangerine for years, but unfortunately development of the app seems to have stopped in 2009. The most recent version 1.2 of Tangerine is only officially compatible with OS X 10.5. Using it on OS X 10.6 or 10.7 results in the app quietly shutting down after a few minutes. Until now I have simply been re-launching it as needed.
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