Archive for the 'Apple' Category

LaCie Ethernet Disk and Firefly Media Server

Friday, May 2nd, 2008

As I mentioned in an earlier post, I purchased a LaCie Ethernet Disk Mini Drive.  In short it’s a 500GB Gigabit Ethernet NAS device with a built in media server.  It uses Linux as its internal OS and Firefly Media Server to share media files. (music files show up in iTunes under shared libraries and [...]

How to display the full path in Finder

Sunday, April 6th, 2008

Does not knowing the entire path while navigating a directory structure bug the willies out of you? It does me.
This works on Mac OS X 10.5. I’m assuming it works with all 10.0 and higher OS. If not, let me know.
While searching the web for a solution to this problem I found this:
$ defaults write [...]

LaCie Backup Software

Friday, April 4th, 2008

I got a chance to try the LaCie 1-Click backup software for the PC.  It’s a free download from LaCie and can be found here.  It is a very simple application that provides a single hotkey “Ctrl-S” backup of folders that you specify.  It doesn’t appear to perform a backup with any sort of schedule.  [...]

LaCie Ethernet drives

Friday, April 4th, 2008

I recently purchase a LaCie Ethernet Mini Disk from the local Mac Store.  I had heard that LaCie was the best external Mac hard drive company.  Period.  My experiences were less than stellar with the company and the product although I totally love the drive.
 
The goals for buying this drive were:

Provide additional storage for the [...]

Ecto issues.

Thursday, April 3rd, 2008

In a previous entry about blogging software, I mentioned how rock sold Ecto is. Right after finishing that post, I noticed that a number of my posts were missing from Ecto. They appeared in both Live Writer and MarsEdit just fine. I tinkered around with Ecto for a bit but couldn’t get [...]

Live Writer for the Mac???

Thursday, April 3rd, 2008

In my attempt to prove that the new Mac can do “everything” I’ve been looking for a blog editor that can hold a candle to Microsoft’s Live Writer.
For those of you who haven’t tried it, editing a blog using Live writer is simple and straightforward. It’s an extremely feature rich editor that manages multiple blog [...]

Mac Mini Media Server - AirPort Express Problems

Sunday, March 30th, 2008

As I mentioned in a earlier post, I recently purchased a Mac Mini.
Why buy a Mac?
There are a couple of iPods in the house and an iPhone. All the computers in the house that will support iTunes have it installed. I have a moderately extensive music collection and have found that iTunes [...]

A New Mac In The Family

Sunday, March 30th, 2008

So, I’ve finally done it. I went out and bought a Mac. I am the proud owner of a brand new Mac Mini as of Mid March 2008. I’ve had Apple computers before but not in some time. It’s refreshing to see that some things have changed with Apple. [...]