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MacTech NYC Boot Camp to include TUAW/TidBITS panel

by Michael Rose (Apr 4th, 2012)

On April 18 and 19, the MacTech live event series will be coming to the Big Apple. The Park Central Hotel in New York will be hosting MacTech Boot Camp and MacTech In Depth: OS X Server Administration over those two days, giving IT professionals and consultants covering the range from home user ...

Winclone tool for Boot Camp imaging comes back as paid app

by Michael Rose (Feb 28th, 2012)

Say the word "Winclone" to any Mac-centric IT person and you'll likely get a wistful sigh in return. The original Winclone utility, which provided a handy GUI wrapper around CLI tools such as the open-source NTFSprogs, did a spot-on job of backing up and restoring the Boot Camp partition of a ...

MacTech Boot Camp

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Feb 15th, 2012)

"MacTech Boot Camp is specifically designed for those techs and consultants supporting home users, small office/home office, and small-to-medium sized businesses. This one-day, hotel-based, seminar is designed specifically to help you be the most successful consultant you can be. Learn. Network. ...

MacTech announces a full year of events

by Mike Schramm (Dec 20th, 2011)

MacTech has been doing well with its annual Mac IT conference event (which I've attended the past two years here in Los Angeles), and the company recently announced that it is spreading out with some one-day MacTech InDepth events. But this morning, the company revealed that it's going even ...

Quark will host iPad publishing seminars

by Kelly Hodgkins (Sep 26th, 2011)

As noted by MacObserver, Quark is pushing the new App Studio feature of QuarkXPress 9.1 by offering designers two seminars to help them use this new publishing tool. App Studio lets designers create their own multimedia-rich iPad magazine app using the familiar interface of QuarkXpress. It ...

Dear Aunt TUAW: Help me run Windows on Mac

by Erica Sadun (Sep 8th, 2011)

Dear Aunt TUAW, I am new to the Mac community, and there are some programs that are unsupported on the Mac and I know there are a few options to run Windows on a Mac. When I search online for the best options and answers to my questions (what is the best option, do I need a Windows ...

Apple issues Boot Camp Software Update 3.3 for Windows

by Michael Grothaus (Aug 24th, 2011)

In addition to today's iMac Graphic Firmware Update 3.0, Apple has released Boot Camp Software Update 3.3 for Windows. Boot Camp allows users to run Microsoft Windows natively on their Intel-based Macs. The update is recommended for all Boot Camp 3.2 users and contains critical bug fixes and ...

Boot Camp in Lion requires Windows 7

by Kelly Hodgkins (Aug 3rd, 2011)

Apple's latest version of OS X 10.7 Lion ships with Boot Camp 4 which, according to an Apple support document, only runs Windows 7. Previous versions of Windows like Vista and XP are no longer supported. There's no reason for this change, but Apple, like Microsoft, is likely increasing its ...

Boot Camp update for Thunderbolt iMacs available

by Dave Caolo (May 3rd, 2011)

With new iMacs comes new software. Apple has released a Boot Camp update for Thunderbolt iMacs. The small update (the download is just 638 KB) can be found via Software Update or Apple's website and offers a specific fix. According to Apple, the update "...addresses issues with Japanese and Korean ...

Mac OS X 10.6.6 introduces subtle changes to Boot Camp

by Dave Caolo (Jan 17th, 2011)

MacNN cites two tips they received noting changes made to Boot Camp in Mac OS X 10.6.6. The first suggests that Apple has dropped support for Windows XP. When setting up a Windows partition, Boot Camp requests an "...authentic installation disc of Windows 7 Home Premium, Professional or Ultimate." ...

Boot Camp, MacBook firmware updates appear in Software Update

by Steven Sande (Nov 18th, 2010)

After the excitement of the Safari 5.0.3 update this morning, Apple quietly slipped in a few more updates this afternoon. Boot Camp Software Update 3.2 for Windows 32 bit and Windows 64 bit both provide support for the ATI-Radeon HD 5870 graphics card, the Apple USB Ethernet adapter, and the MacBook ...

The extra special TUAW TV Live all-Mac episode, version 2.0

by Steven Sande (Aug 25th, 2010)

Welcome to another episode of TUAW TV Live, the weekly livestreaming video show where you can join in on the conversation. Today, I'll be presenting another all-Mac episode, where I try to avoid using the i-words (iPhone, iPad, iPod touch) and showcase the venerable Apple computer line. Some of ...

Ask TUAW: Key remapping in Boot Camp, iPad tethering, file-sharing with a media extender, and more

by Mat Lu (Feb 19th, 2010)

Welcome back to Ask TUAW, our weekly troubleshooting Q&A column. This week we deal with some technical issues on our production Mac before turning to questions about Windows key remapping in Boot Camp, sharing files with a LaCie media extender, downloading images in Safari, recovering from a ...

Ask TUAW: Power adapters, Windows 7, iWork refresh, and more

by Mat Lu (Feb 4th, 2010)

Welcome back to Ask TUAW, our weekly troubleshooting Q&A column. This week we've got questions about MacBook power adapters, Windows 7 in Boot Camp and virtualization in general, resetting the Mac Setup Assistant, the next iWork refresh, and more. As always, your suggestions and questions are ...

Ask TUAW: Prepping a Mac for transfer, adding words to spell check, updating Boot Camp, and more

by Mat Lu (Jan 28th, 2010)

Welcome back to Ask TUAW, our weekly troubleshooting Q&A column. This week we've got questions about preparing a Mac that you're transferring to a new owner, updating Boot Camp, adding words to the built-in spell check, dealing with flaky network disks, FTP clients, and more. As always, your ...