macosxhints - Print to a Brother HL-1430 via a Linksys print server
Primary tip is about a specific model of printer, but methods are generalizeable.
Thursday, October 21, 2004
Tracking space usage on an OS X drive
macosxhints - Another means of getting a disk usage summary
In addition to the script method, the comments reference other solutions. I'll use at least one of them.
In addition to the script method, the comments reference other solutions. I'll use at least one of them.
The Google Browser
The New York Times > Technology > Google Envy Is Fomenting Search Wars
They deny it of course, but Google is doing a browser. I'm interested in the P2P VOIP and distributed backup parts of their browser. Too bad it will be Windows only.
'If you drive by the Google buildings in the evening,' said a person who has detailed knowledge of the company's business, 'the lights that are still on are the ones on the floor where they are working on the browser.'
They deny it of course, but Google is doing a browser. I'm interested in the P2P VOIP and distributed backup parts of their browser. Too bad it will be Windows only.
Alternatives to Google indexing
The New York Times > Technology > Circuits > State of the Art: Google Takes On Your Desktop
This is odd. I've tried several similar programs, such as FileHand and X1. I've never heard of these despite searching for them. This is a search failure! (I do use Lookout VERY heavily -- it's my right hand these days.)
There's more power and flexibility to be had in programs like Blinkx (www.blinkx.com, free), Lycos Hotbot Desktop (www.hotbot.com/tools, free), Enfish (www.enfish.com, $50 and $200) and DT Search (www.dtsearch.com, $200).
This is odd. I've tried several similar programs, such as FileHand and X1. I've never heard of these despite searching for them. This is a search failure! (I do use Lookout VERY heavily -- it's my right hand these days.)
Tuesday, October 19, 2004
Mac OS X has built-in drive cloning capabilities
Backup your Mac - KerimWiki
What is it with OS X and documentation? Apple has a LOT of capabilities they don't market very well. I'm definitely going to try this one. I may partition my external drive so that I can image this to a boot partition and keep the rest for other uses. Also experiment with drive images. CarbonCopyCloner is another approach of course.
Duplicate your Drive
To make a full backup to an external HD, follow these steps:
1. Select the external drive in the Finder and choose "get info" from the file menu. You will see an option to "ignore ownership on this volume." Make sure that this is NOT checked. If this is option is checked then your backup won't work!!!
2. Launch Disk Utilities
3. Run "repair permissions" on your start-up drive.
4. Click on the "restore" tab (in Disk Utility). Yes, it should be named "backup/restore" not just restore but that's how it is!
5. Drag-and-drop your start-up drive on to "source" and your external drive on to "Destination", go ahead and check "erase destination."
6. Click "restore". It is really backing up your drive on to the external drive, not "restoring" anything, but whose to argue with the folks at Apple.
That's it. Go have a cup of coffee.
When you come back it should be done. You may wish to select your external drive in the finder and give it another name, since it will now have the same name as your start-up drive and thus will confuse the system. Otherwise just unhook your drive and leave it till you need to do another backup. If you want to test it out you can go into the "start-up disk" preference pane in System Preferences, select your backup drive, and click "restart." It should boot up from the external drive as if you were running off the internal drive. Don't save anything here (this is just your backup drive), but look around to see that everything is working as it should be! If you are ever in any trouble you can use your backup drive this way and then "restore" to your internal drive!
What is it with OS X and documentation? Apple has a LOT of capabilities they don't market very well. I'm definitely going to try this one. I may partition my external drive so that I can image this to a boot partition and keep the rest for other uses. Also experiment with drive images. CarbonCopyCloner is another approach of course.
Make Acrobat Reader 6 Load MUCH faster
Sanjay's Coding Tips :: Make Acrobat Reader 6 load faster
I tried this with Adobe Acrobat (full version, not reader). Load time was instantaneous, but the Plug-Ins don't work (Optional didn't do the trick). I'll add them back in as needed.
I wonder if this would work with other Adobe products -- like Photoshop Elements?!
I wonder if this works for Adobe Photoshop too?!
My Acrobat 5 Reader installation started acting up again and I was dreading the move to ver6 especially after all the troubles I had from installing it the last time around. However, Darrell Norton came to the rescue with a great little trick to make Acrobat 6 load as fast as the old ver5:
It is all the plug-ins that are enabled by default slowing Acrobat reader down.
1. Go to C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 6.0\Reader
2. Create a new folder called Optional (if it doesn't already exist).
3. Move all files from the plug_ins folder to the Optional folder.
4. You're done.
The trick works great and changed my Acrobat startup time from 15-25 secs to about 2 secs and I don't really think I'm missing any real essential functionality.
I tried this with Adobe Acrobat (full version, not reader). Load time was instantaneous, but the Plug-Ins don't work (Optional didn't do the trick). I'll add them back in as needed.
I wonder if this would work with other Adobe products -- like Photoshop Elements?!
I wonder if this works for Adobe Photoshop too?!
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