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Ask TUAW: MobileMe syncing problems, invisible files on FAT32 discs, creating an online store, and more
This edition of Ask TUAW tackles questions about MobileMe syncing woes, OS X invisible files, online store creation, watching AVIs, sorting Apple Lossless files and more.
As always, your suggestions are most welcome, and questions for next week ...
Beta Beat: Parallels puts beta 2 goodness in stockings
Mere days before the big sleigh ride, Parallels has kicked out Beta 2 of the next Parallels Desktop. This build features improvements to Coherence mode, Boot Camp compatibility, USB2 high-speed support (no audio/video in, but HDs and printers are ...
One-day deal on WD 250GB portable drive
Got some data cleanup plans for the Labor Day weekend? I know I do -- there are scads of vacation pictures, silly videos and MP3s that have got to get gone from my laptop hard drive and onto some standby storage. That's why I was excited to see ...
Sharing a file system among Linux, Mac OS, and Windows
When you’re dual-booting (or triple-booting, or …), or when you’re sharing a portable USB2/Firewire hard drive among
different boxes, all of a sudden, file systems become important. NTFS isn’t supported by Mac OS, to my ...
Intel Mac tweakers having trouble, kill iMacs in process
An interesting thread has popped up over at the Nakfull Propaganda blog regarding
getting Linux or Windoze to boot on the new Intel iMac Core Duo's. Since the new Intel Macs don't have Open
Firmware and instead have EFI (Extensible ...
Hitch iPod2iPod USB Transfer Device
The Hitch iPod2iPod USB Transfer Device is an interesting little device for copying songs between two iPods without a computer in between. You just plug both iPods into the Hitch and you can "select and transfer songs, albums and videos between the ...
That SD slot on the MacBook Pro? Not just for digital cameras
Hard Mac reports on a newly released Apple Knowledge Base article that reveals this nice little tidbit about the new MacBook Pro's SD slot. Not only can you use it to dump pictures off your digital camera, but you can use it as a boot disk if need ...
NTFS on your Mac two ways
PC-to-Mac switchers are sometimes surprised to discover that while Mac OS X has full support for reading, writing and formatting the older FAT32 Windows disk format, media formatted with the NTFS scheme (NT for "New Technology" a la Windows NT, FS ...
Gruber: Firewire foo, shuffle FAT
John Gruber weighs in on
the recent debate surrounding the omission of
FireWire cables from the new line of iPods. He’s not terribly concerned about this, acknowleding a smart move on the
part of Apple to stop including, and making everyone ...
Maintenance utility Cocktail 4.1.4 released
All the way since back when I started using a Mac, the program that's been most recommended to new Mac users in my experience isn't Adium, Transmit, or Quicksilver (although those are certain all terrific apps/reasons to be a Mac owner) -- Cocktail ...
WD TV provides subtle support for Mac-format drives
It wasn't the splashiest product introduction ever, but last week's launch of Western Digital's $130 WD TV high-definition media player may have caused a few smiles for Mac users. The playback unit -- a simple configuration of a USB2 port for ...
TUAW's review of the DroboPro, plus a discount deal for readers
Data Robotics delivered their "super-sized" version of the Drobo earlier this year. DroboPro has 8 drive bays into which you can drop 3.5" SATA drives of almost any capacity, from the old 160 GB model you've been using to hold the backup of your ...
My Dad, the Switcher: Day 140
Yesterday, Robert talked about setting up a new Mac Pro for his switcher Dad. Today, setting up Windows proves to be a bit of a headache.
When I mentioned to my best buddy Cameron that Dad was getting a Mac Pro to replace his just-months-old Mac ...
Ask TUAW: Return to open, messed up Mighty Mouse, PDF alternatives, Boot Camp expansion, and more
It's time once again for Ask TUAW! For this round we take questions about cleaning a malfunctioning Mighty Mouse, opening files and applications with the return key, expanding a Boot Camp partition, finding alternatives to Adobe Acrobat, caring for ...
Get your Ghost images into Boot Camp
Suppose you're in a mixed-platform environment, and you've got a library of Symantec Ghost images happily tweaked and configured for your Windows XP deployments. Wouldn't it be great if you could get those Ghost images into a form where you could use ...
