As I explained in an earlier post, I have set up a Mac mini in my living room that primarily acts as a server, but it is also connected to my home entertainment system to function as a media player. I confess that I did this merely because I could. Like I said back then, [...]
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Why Plex makes me finally use a media center, and how to watch overseas television without limitations using VPN
Posted in Consumer Tech, Mac, tagged Hulu, iPlayer, Logitech Harmony One, media center, Plex, VPN on Wednesday April 22, 2009 | 8 Comments »
My favorite indy Mac software
Posted in Mac, tagged indy mac software on Monday March 30, 2009 | 2 Comments »
This time I couldn’t resist the temptation that every Mac-blogger faces sooner or later. Today I will not give an insight into Apple’s latest wanderings, but an overview of my personal favorite pieces of software. To make things a bit more interesting, I will omit the “obvious” tools from the big companies (assuming that most [...]
Can Snow Leopard end the Mac cloning problem?
Posted in Mac, tagged cloning, Hackintosh, Microsoft, PearC, Psystar, Snow Leopard on Tuesday February 24, 2009 | 1 Comment »
When computers for personal use were introduced in the 1970s, it was common practice that the computer’s hardware and its main operating software (which, back then, usually involved not much more but a simple command line driven interface for standard I/O operations or a BASIC interpreter) were delivered by the same company. As a full [...]
Gimme iTunes for pictures!
Posted in Mac, tagged iPhoto, itunes, pictures on Saturday February 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
If you want to manage your photos on your Mac, there are generally two ways to do so. The first one involves manual copying of the pictures from your camera’s memory card to a destination on your harddrive. The second one is by using Apple’s sophisticated picture management program iPhoto.
iPhoto offers a lot of very, [...]
How I put my Mac mini to use as an all-purpose server
Posted in Mac, tagged airport, kerio, mac mini, server on Monday December 29, 2008 | 6 Comments »
About two years ago, when all of my main desktop and laptop machines had long been transitioned to Macs, I was still running a Windows PC to act as my server. I used it mainly for e-mail running Kerio Mailserver, and furthermore it acted as a file server. As my willingness to keep this Windows [...]
