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Charlie Caper and Erik Rosales iPad act

Posted on Monday, May 14 , 2012 by John

Impressive act by Charlie Caper and Erik Rosales using 7 iPads to promote Stockholm.

Posted in Apple, Computing, On the web

Time Machine backup stalls if NAS volumes are mounted

Posted on Saturday, May 21 , 2011 by John

I have had a problem on my Mac mini for several months. Time Machine hangs after backing up a small amount of data, and refuses to continue. I can leave the machine running for days and nothing happens. This is … Continue reading →

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Relocating referenced master images in Aperture

Posted on Sunday, November 07 , 2010 by John

I have done this a couple of times in the past, and the solution is not well documented by Apple: I use Aperture 3.0 to manage my digital photographs (tag them, edit them, organize them, and so on). I don’t … Continue reading →

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Resetting Software Update to use Apple’s servers

Posted on Sunday, May 02 , 2010 by John

Using a Snow Leopard Server, (OS X 10.6.x) it seems that administrators have a problem if they have used Apple’s Managed Client for OS X (MCX) to provide software updates to their clients from their local server and then want … Continue reading →

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Alice on the iPad

Posted on Tuesday, April 13 , 2010 by John

The iPad seems to have quite a potential to shake up the market for eBooks. (Click the pic to view). On almost the same subject – we saw the Alice film in 3D at the weekend – and thoroughly enjoyed … Continue reading →

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Using Snow Leopard instead of Snow Leopard Server?

Posted on Saturday, March 27 , 2010 by John

I have seen several articles over the years indicating that there are no problems in using a standard / client version of OS X as a server instead of using the OS X Server version, which is a darn sight … Continue reading →

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Recreating the correct links to files in iTunes

Posted on Monday, March 15 , 2010 by John

The Mac mini I set up with Snow Leopard Server had previously been acting as a server using the client version of OS X. While I was setting up the server again after installing the Server operating system, I decided … Continue reading →

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Installing Snow Leopard Server on a Mac Mini

Posted on Monday, March 15 , 2010 by John

I picked up a new copy of OS X 10.6 Server on EBay for 177 Euro (instead of the 499 Euro it costs if you buy it new from Apple) and have installed it on my 2006 Intel Mac mini. … Continue reading →

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Apple Packaging

Posted on Saturday, December 05 , 2009 by John

The Apple Store yesterday in Frankfurt’s Fressgass’ If you have ever bought an Apple product, you know their packaging is usually exquisite. Well, the same applies to their stores before they open. The Frankfurt store pictured above opens at the … Continue reading →

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So where’s the backup going to be?

Posted on Tuesday, August 18 , 2009 by John

Apple is building a new 1 billion dollar data center, five times larger than it’s existing one in California. Supposedly, to start offering “cloud computing” services (i.e. allowing users to store their data on the web, or use web-based applications). … Continue reading →

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