Earlier this week at work I had the good fortune of having a solid state drive loaned to me to test and play around with in my Macbook Pro. Figuring that the only PROPER way to test a drive like that is to make it my system drive I had the occasion of doing a [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Apple’
Secure Delete Automator Workflow
Posted: 7th December 2009 by John in PersonalTags: 10.6, Apple, Automator, Mac OS X, OS X 10.6, Secure Delete, Snow Leopard, Technology
What do you do when you’re finished with a document on your computer and need or want to get rid of it? For most people the answer is to delete the file. That is, after all, the most logical thing to do, right? What a lot of people fail to realize is that [...]
Thoughts on Applecare
Posted: 3rd December 2009 by John in GeneralTags: Apple, Applecare, Macbook Pro
Back when I got my first mac, a 12″ Powerbook G4, one of the guys I worked with suggested that I get Applecare with it in case anything went bad. I thought it was a bit pricey, but opted to heed the advice. I’m glad I did, though, as two years after I got [...]
Snow Leopard: Beating Microsoft at their own game.
Posted: 2nd September 2009 by John in PersonalTags: Apple, Exchange, iCal, Snow Leopard, Technology
It should come as no surprise to anybody that I am an Apple fan. I use Mac’s almost exclusively (I do have a Windows 7 / Ubuntu Linux dual boot workstation in my home office…. along with a 24″ iMac ) and am sometimes very outspoken about the benefits of using Apple hardware and devices. [...]
A small Hiccup, and how I fixed it.
Posted: 13th January 2008 by John in PersonalTags: Apple, Home Sync, Leopard Server, Mac OS X Server, Macintosh, Portable Home Directories, Technology
My last two posts covered how I implemented portable home directories on my home network using OS X Server (Leopard) with Open Directory. It seemed to be working fine for all I wanted to use it for – until I checked into things more and found it had stopped syncing with the server on the [...]
