Thursday, December 31, 2009

LogMeIn Hamachi - Free for family networks

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Hamachi is a shareware VPN application. LogMeIn is marketing a free version for non-commercial use . Alas, I think it's Windows only. --...

Time Machine: Fail first, then flaw discovered

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At the very end of attempting to restore a 40GB iPhoto Library named “Current” from a Time Machine / Time Capsule backup I got this messag...
Tuesday, December 29, 2009

HoudahSpot fixes Spotlight -- for a steep price

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HoudahSpot is, like the now defunct MoRU /FileSpot, a tool for extending Spotlight. At $30 it's not cheap, most apps of this sort go fo...
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Monday, December 28, 2009

Google's Pages to Sites migration - train wreck

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About a year ago Google announced it would sunset their old Page Creator platform in favor of Google Sites. This would have been better rece...
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Sunday, December 27, 2009

Surprises from an old zip archive

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For years my personal data was distributed between DOS/Windows/XP and Mac Classic/OS X environments. It's really only moved to a single ...

Enabling use of a large external USB drive with an older BIOS: disable legacy USB support

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This is a pretty exotic fix, but I'm not the only one to run into the problem so I'll pass on what I learned (I found the link afte...

Using OS X Spaces, Expose, Minimize and Hide - best practices

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I had to take another look at Expose and Spaces when a relative asked me to review their use. I'm again struck by a perennial myste...
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