Effective Mac - Using TimeMachine Part II or Why Restore was greyed out?
2009-09-12 Personal Mac Tips & Tricks
It happened again!!! Another HD crash. A year ago I lost my original 160GB drive and replaced it with a 250GB drive. Now this one failed only 12 month ... Read More
Effective Mac - Make the Mac listen ...
2009-05-18 Personal Mac Tips & Tricks
This morning I was using my new JawBone Bluetooth headset to make a Skype call. The quality was bad and therefore I decided to switch to my headset. ... Read More
Effective Mac - Sleeping on the plane
2009-01-10 Software-Engineering Mac Tips & Tricks
About a year ago, I "borrowed" the battery from Christina's MacBook to extend my "life", while I am on the plane. The Mac (being the Mac) has a nice ... Read More
Effective Mac - Using OpenOffice, NeoOffice and/or iWorks08
2009-01-04 Personal Mac Tips & Tricks
Finally! OpenOffice is now available for the Mac. In the last two month I used OpenOffice 3.0, NeoOffice 2.2.5 and iWorks08 in parallel (with a ... Read More
Effective Mac - Using Time Maschine
2008-09-30 Personal Mac Tips & Tricks
On Saturday at 08:00am it happend to me. I move/dragged an email into a folder on my Mac and the machine froze. Diagnosis: Catastrophic harddisk ... Read More
Effective Mac - Open-Source Mac
2008-09-10 Personal Mac Tips & Tricks
Was looking for an opensource search engine for the Mac and found this interesting website. I am already using half of the apps, but will take a look ... Read More
Effective Mac - Growl back to work
2008-09-07 Personal Mac Tips & Tricks
Stumbled over James's blog entry about useful software for the Mac and added Growl to my list of software that you need have/use to be effective, but ... Read More
Effective Mac - call me slow
2008-07-12 Personal Mac Tips & Tricks
You can call me slow, but it took me only a year to find the RSS reader that everybody else is using. David Greco finally pointed me to NetNewsWire. ... Read More
Effective Mac - the beginning of a journey
2008-07-04 Personal Tips & Tricks Mac
yesterday i finally finished my upgrade to Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard). overall it went well. i did an erase and install (as a 20 year windows user i feel ... Read More