Sophos is now offering free copies of it\’s anti-virus software, to Macintosh users… Technical Specifications are as follows: Mac with Intel or PowerPC processor 256 MB of memory 150 MB of available disk space Mac with OSX 10.4 (Tiger), 10.5 (Leopard) or 10.6 (Snow Leopard) Supports All Apple Mac hardware including iMac, MacBook, MacBook Pro […]
How to open the Western Digital My Book (Studio) External drive case…. I\’m considering upgrading it to a 2 Tb drive, and couldn\’t find how to open it… Â The new Studio 2 drive looks excellent with it\’s easy open, and customer supported drive swapping…. But the original isn\’t documented, but this web page seems to […]
iFixit has torn apart a Google TV Revue, and discovered a few things…  I\’ll summarize, but please go to First Google TV Teardown for the full details… 1.2 Ghz ATOM processor 1 GB DDR3 RAM 5 Gb of NAND (Flash) memory for storage So not a remarkable machine for $400-500, plus accessories….
It\’s automation taken to the absurd? Or is it? Niklas Roy (Berlin, Germany) has an old storefront with a big window facing towards the street. He\’s installed a small but small smart curtain, in the shop window. Take an laptop, and camera and hook them into the motorized curtain, and there\’s a small but smart […]
I ran into a situation earlier that I needed to bulk rename the file extension on a couple thousand files…. The first hurtle was that a majority of the files had a \”\\\” Â (or was it \”/\”?) in it. Â Since I am on a Unix platform, it appears that the os.listdir function wasn\’t able to […]
Microsoft has been making alot of noise lately about how they will be supplying software to allow Windows System 7 System Phones will support Macintosh Syncing. Â Well, I don\’t want to look a gift horse in the mouth, but Microsoft has promised quite a bit in the past, and rarely delivers everything they promise. Microsoft […]
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We\’ve all seen it. Â The little \”On My Mac\” label in Apple Mail, or Entourage\’s \”On My Computer\” label… Almost every modern mail package offers a similar feature, but many people don\’t understand what this means… Â So here\’s the scoop. There are three different major ways to handle email: Post Office Protocol (POP 3) IMAP […]