This article is written for the benefit of other Mac OS X users that may find themselves in the unfortunate situation of needing to update the firmware on a Seagate 1.5TB drive.
Considering the purchase of a 1.5TB Seagate drive for my Mac Pro, I was aware of the widespread freeze-up problems people had started reporting [...]
I’ve been a happy owner of a hacked “Jailbroken” iPhone for a long time. My iPhone has been running perfectly well for me on version 1.1.1 for, well, since I bought it several months ago.
I also work with young people who live (and sometimes cut themselves) on the very bleeding and dripping edge of technology. [...]
I use rsync running on MacOS X to mirror some remote Linux file systems to an externally connected Firewire drive (”Mirror”), and to archive changed and deleted files to a second externally connected Firewire drive (”Archives”). In general, it works fine, but there has been a long-standing tricky problem, that my system administrator (Niall O [...]
Since I really enjoy blog articles where people present the tools and equipment supporting their work and play, I thought I’d do the same. We’ll start from the top, and work our way down through the details.
On the beach…
Our office is located on the mediterranean sea, in beautiful Marbella, Spain. It’s a wonderful place to [...]
It’s kind of cute or weird or funny or something when your music system is about a fraction of the size of your headphones. This is the case with my new Apple iPod Shuffle, and trusty old Audio Technica ATH-ES7 headphones.
For mother’s day this year, I decided to order my world’s greatest mom a little [...]
This is sort of a summary post related to a combination of recent technological advances, combined with older technology, that’s making my networked life a lot more convenient.
MacFUSE & MacFusion: Mounting Volumes over SSH
Our company is very distributed — we have offices in Germany, Spain and the US, with a number of employees living in [...]
Back in 1999 or thereabouts, I had a Paperport, and loved it. It was small scanner that sat between my keyboard and monitor, about the size of a roll of aluminum foil. Anytime you wanted to get a document into the Mac, you just fed the paper into the bottom of the Paperport, and it [...]
Today I upgraded to QuickBooks Pro 2007, in order to have an Intel binary version of the application to run on my MacBook.
I went to the site to buy it, $199 (yikes!) and noticed the “Coupon” field on the check-out screen. I stared at this field, feeling somehow left out, as I always do [...]
Moore’s Law states (roughly) that the speed of computers doubles every two years, and he’s been more or less on the money. Today I introduce a corollary to Moore’s Law, which I expect to come to be known as Matt’s Corollary:
Except for the first couple days of ownership, the perceived speed of computers, [...]
I’ve been purchasing music from the Apple iTunes Store since it opened, and am sure that I’m single-handedly keeping them in business. Thinking about it (as a roaming mountain goat tried to climb into my car) this past weekend, it occured to me that the true value, for me, in the iTunes store is the [...]
These days I’m working exclusively from a laptop computer — an Apple MacBook — which I transport daily between my home and my office. Each night, my MacBook mounts and backs up my home directory to a 500GB drive served from my home server, a Mac mini. The mini later mirrors this 500GB drive to [...]
For anyone interested, I followed up on my email situation with a post over at the Summit.
WebnoteHappy. This is the bookmark manager for Mac OS X that I have so been waiting for.
I’m interested in maintaining several email address lists, for example:
A list of close friends and family. A list of those who have commented on my weblog. A list of those who have commented on our Jiu-Jitsu weblog. A list of MakaluMedia hosting customers. A list of those interested in MakaluMedia job opportunities. etc., etc.
These are my desires for a tool [...]
I don’t know whether it was the anonymous email I got from someone at Apple, or the fact that my article was backlinked by some well-known people, whether it was the “friend of a friend” at Apple, or whether it was the email I sent to Steve Jobs himself. Whatever it was, one thing’s clear: [...]
I just paid $35 for a t-shirt and one-year membership to help John Gruber realize his dream of working full-time on his weblog, Daring Fireball, and now I find myself gazing out the window asking why.
Although I’ve been reading John’s weblog for the past few years, I’ve never personally met him and I don’t think [...]
I’m writing this article in the hope that someone at Apple USA might read it, and come to understand what kind of service your customers abroad are receiving. (And let me prefix this by mentioning that my company has probably spent more than $50,000 in Apple equipment over the past several years.)
A couple of months [...]
So our design director, Mike Rohde, who knows how miserable I am for having just purchased a new Powerbook one week before Apple’s MacBook Pro announcement (which happens to only be five times faster), decided to have a little fun at my expense tonight. Thanks buddy.
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Maybe Steve Jobs will read this (in the next [...]
Some time ago, I purchased an upgrade to Adobe Acrobat Professional, version 7. The installer didn’t ask for the previous version’s serial number, as most do, but rather asked me to locate the older version of the software on my hard drive. So I pointed the installer at version 6, completed the installation/registration, and then [...]
I can’t begin to express how fortunate I feel that about one week ago in the US, I purchased a new 15″ Powerbook, given that yesterday, Steve Jobs introduced the new Intel-based Powerbook which happens to be only about FIVE TIMES FASTER! They were NOT supposed to do that yet! Aaaaaarg!
For all you buggers with [...]
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