With all the recent scare about Java on Mac OS X I spend a lot of time looking for good guides of how to disable or uninstall it. Unfortunately, good information is hard to find.
Bento 4 comes with a nice set of templates. It is also easy to customize these templates; however, once customized, there is no straightforward way to duplicate a database. For instance in my case I customized the “Vehicle Maintenance” Template by replacing the ‘Location’ field with a drop down menu populated by various places I go for my car service. I did not want to set this up from scratch for another vehicle. Continue reading
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Having been recently converted to Windows 7 one of the first thing I noticed is the lack of the “up” button in explorer. Since I have many shortcuts to frequently used directories, the “back” does not do the same thing in most cases. Fortunately, there is an easy shortcut key as I found out here:
Use ALT-(up arrow)
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/up-keyboard-shortcut-for-windows-vista-explorer/
Unfortunately, ALT-(down arrow) does not bring you back again.
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The title says it all. Here’s the official statement from Apple:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4112
This is very upsetting.
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Ever since I decided to start using Time Machine it has been bugging me that I could not figure out how to back up my my iMac to an attached FireWire HDD and my PowerBook to the the same HDD over the Network. Of course I could buy TimeCapsule, but I wanted to make it work with what I had. You can find tips to active an attached HDD on an Airport Extreme or other network location (e.g., here, or here), but I was not interested in that. Also, there are some solutions out there for using Leopard Server (e.g., here, )
The solution presented below requires just one one desktop Mac with an external HDD (I use firewire, but I would expect USB to work as well), one Mac laptop, and any local wireless network (I use my ATT U-verse modem/router). I learnt that I wanted to do is possible from this Macworld article, alas, it does not give detailed instructions. read on to find out how it works.
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If you don’t want to fill-up your Time Machine backup with dayly or weekly news podcastsm they can easily be excluded.
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Leopard’s Time Machine has an option to exclude certain folders from being backed-up. iTunes movie rentals which usually weigh in with greater than 1 GB are a prime example for what should not be backed-up. Unfortunately, movie rentals are stored in iTunes’ Movie folder–along with all your other movies that you may have purchased, or made yourself. So what to do?
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This is something I always wondered about. This Apple Support article explains very detailedly what works and what doesn’t.
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Mine has this model number T86A7X103BD2. This blog post, describes a similar model and the instructions worked for me. In my case, the cables were actually red and blue which made it easier to connect them.
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Apparently Apple finally listened to the many users requesting direct FTP support. Quote:
Rather use File Transfer Protocol (FTP) to publish to a different hosting service? With the built-in FTP support in iWeb, you can do that, too.
I am curious to see if this works as seamlessly as syncing via .Mac or MobileMe…
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