Saturday, September 19th, 2009 by Steven 0 Add a CommentFiled under: Enterprise, OS, Software, Odds and ends, Snow LeopardA little over a year ago, I was searching for a way to expand my reach as a Mac consultant. I had heard quite a bit from other Apple Consultants Network members about Mac HelpMate, but really didn’t know much about it. After a free test drive, I ended up purchasing Mac HelpMate and its companion software for standalone Macs, Auto HelpMate. Since then, supporting users
Filed under: OS , Software Update , Snow Leopard The InterWebs were buzzing last evening with word that Build 10B504 of Mac OS X 10.6.1 Snow Leopard had been seeded to developers. This build appeared about a week after the initial 10.6.1 seed, which was allegedly seeded to developers only three or four days after 10.6 hit the streets. What’s interesting about this build is that it addresses only two documented issues — the occasional crashing of Desktop Services in Finder, and excessi
Monday, September 7th, 2009 by Steven 0 Add a CommentFiled under: OS, Software, How-tos, Odds and ends, Freeware, Open SourceI received a private tweet from a reader the other day, who asked a question about a previous post in which I had installed Windows 7 RC1 on a Mac using Sun’s VirtualBox. The tweet asked, “You did a post about installing Win 7 on the Mac for free. How about Linux?,” which set up a challenge. Not only can you install Linux distributions on a Mac using VirtualBox, but
An interesting thing happened today. I upgraded the software on a laptop. It’s worth noting because while we have 4 laptops in the household (one each on OS X, Vista, XP and 2000), I can’t remember the last time I ever did that. On Windows it was just too hard and too expensive. An upgrade was easily $99 for the OS software alone, and inevitably needed more ram and more hard drive space and by the time I looked at upgrading all of that, the time involved, and the likelihood of some software i
July 8th, 2009 Posted by Dave Greenfield @ 2:31 amCategories:Android Project, Enterprise 2.0, Google, UncategorizedTags:Google Inc., PC, Operating System, Google Chrome, Google Chrome OS, Software Architecture, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Operating Systems, Productivity, Hardware Google officially announced yesterday nigth that they were developing an operating to run on x86 and ARM processors. The open source project is an extension of Chrome, hence the name Google Chrome Operating System and
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion , OS , Software Update , Leopard Against my better judgment, I always download and install Mac OS X updates immediately. That has never caused an issue with any of my Macs until now. Since I installed 10.5.7 literally minutes after hearing about its release, I have been experiencing sporadic issues with USB on my first-generation Intel iMac. A look through the Apple Support discussion forums showed that this isn’t an isolated issue. A number of people have reporte
The #1 gadget I would recommend for anyone is an iPod touch. The iPod touch is touch screen, and runs on the iPhone OS software. It's not only an iPod, but it's also a great pocket computer and a gaming system. Unlike it's competitors ...