I love Front Row. It’s a clean interface which works wonders for watching videos on a Mac. There’s only one limitation - it can only play videos that are in iTunes or in your Movies folder. Luckily, you can easily get around that by created what is called an Alias, a small file which severs [...]
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Speed Up Mac OS X While Running Parallels
If you use Parallels on a Mac, you may notice that Parallels consumes massive amounts of RAM; even above and beyond the amount you gave the client operating system. What’s worse is the performance hit lingers even after the application is closed. This is due to a bug in the Parallels software. Parallels tries to [...]
WWDC 2006 Keynote Impressions
Now that they dust has settled a bit from yesterday’s keynote, I think it’s time to give my opinions of it. First of all, it seems that the general consensus is disappointment. Speculated products weren’t announced, and neither were some of the speculated Leopard features.
Part of the problem might be our mindset. It’s easy to [...]
Day 5: OS X on a Standard Computer
Getting OS X to run on a regular computer has been in the news a lot lately. People are just fed up with Windows but don’t want to trash their perfectly good machine just to run a different operating system. This is where OSx86 comes in. OSx86 is a specially modified version of OS X [...]
DMGs: Show Me the Folder!
For all the Mac users out there, am I the only one who finds DMGs missing the Application folder pointless? The whole point of a DMG is to make it easy to install an application by just dragging it to the Applications folder. Well, when a DMG doesn’t have an Application folder, things can get [...]
