Garbage In Garbage Out

So, you’ve installed Apple’s Boot Camp, partitioned your hard disk, installed Windows XP, but now you have the Windows volume showing up on your Mac desktop. You can hide it (but keep access to it), by doing the following:

The energy saver preference panel in Mac OS X offers a simplistic approach to managing energy saving settings, such as sleep time for the computer and disks. A user might think that by deselecting “Put the hard disk(s) to sleep when possible”, the drives would be prevented from spinning down. This is not, however, true.

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Are you a Mac transplant? Perhaps you’re new to the Mac after spending time in the Windows world? Whatever the case may be, you may find the keyboard characteristics on the Mac confusing, or you may just prefer how certain keys function in Windows. For example, do you like how pressing the Home and End […]

Here’s a quick way to resize a large number of photos using a built-in feature of Mac OS X, that also generates a web page while it’s at it for an easy photo album.

All to often I hear people tossing about performance specs they’ve read off peripheral packaging, as if it were gospel. In particular, in my professional role dealing with media creation, I continually run into people claiming USB 2.0 is “faster” because the marketing-speak from Intel claims theoretical throughput greater than that of Firewire. Well, tune in and I’ll demonstrate why that just isn’t true and why Firewire is the choice of professional video editors.