MacUpdate is offering a bundle of 10 applications, all of which are now unlocked. MacHeist takes the same bundle and offers some additional goodies when you buy it through them. I bought the original MacHeist bundle but the software in this bundle doesn’t excite me (or I already have it). But if you’ve been considering [...]
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I decided to remove the Button Manager drivers (Mac) for my Western Digital My Book 500GB drive. The button manager software is used to provide:
1. the capacity gauge that shows the drive space used
2. Safe shutdown (by pushing the drive button)
Since installing the My Book drivers I’ve had one case when my iMac just pin-wheeled [...]
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http://blogs.technet.com/homeserver/
Microsoft has released Windows Home Server to manufacturing (RTM). According to the Home Server blog post it should be available in a couple of months. Windows Home Server will only be available through hardware manufacturers. This seems to have the potential to be a really cool product from Microsoft that can serve as a media [...]
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I finally got around to researching the wireless problem that surfaced after I applied the OS X 10.4.10 update. In short, every time the computer booted, or woke from sleep I’d have to reconfigure the wireless network. For wireless I use 802.11g with WPA for security.
The solution was simple. I deleted the network from my [...]
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There’s a couple of updates to last Tuesday’s Microsoft patches that are worth mentioning.
First, Microsoft updated MS07-036 to include Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac as a vulnerable application. So if you run Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac you’ll need to patch it. I don’t run the software so can’t say how the patch works. The [...]
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I’ve had my 500GB Western Digital My Book drive for over a month and just got around to moving it to my Mac after testing in on my Windows PC. Click on the previous link to go to my post where I write about the drive and installing it under Windows.My intent all along [...]
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