Category Archives: Mac

Fixing a Slow-Responding Finder in OSX

Posted on November 9, 2010 by Bruce Keener

A couple of months ago, the Finder on my iMac began responding very slowly whenever I would select a file and choose “Open With.” Whereas it used to respond almost instantly with a list of apps for opening the file, … Continue reading →

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Lessons from a Failed NTFS Boot Camp Partition

Posted on April 5, 2009 by Bruce Keener

This article describes the failure of the Windows Boot Camp partition on my iMac, a partition that worked well for over 2 years. The partition was originally formatted as FAT32, but I changed it to NTFS about 6 months ago … Continue reading →

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The Comfort of Automatic Backup

Posted on December 2, 2008 by Bruce Keener

Until yesterday I was backing up my iMac manually, once a month (I used a periodic appointment for a reminder). Now, thanks to my new 500GB external hard drive and Leopard’s Time Machine utility, the backups are done hourly. This … Continue reading →

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Converting a Bootcamp Partition to NTFS

Posted on August 19, 2008 by Bruce Keener

Since about a third of my regular readers use a Mac, I thought I would share my experiences in converting my iMac’s Bootcamp partition to an NTFS file system. When I first set up a Bootcamp partition on my iMac, … Continue reading →

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New VMware Fusion Beta: One Problem on My Bootcamp System

Posted on August 4, 2008 by Bruce Keener

Last week, VWware made available a second beta of its VMware Fusion. There are a lot of new features, which I’ll highlight briefly in a moment. But, first, I wanted to cover a problem I ran into with one of … Continue reading →

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Freshen Up Your Mac

Posted on June 30, 2008 by Bruce Keener

In case your Mac hasn’t alerted you yet, there is a Leopard update to version 10.5.4 To access it, all you have to do is select the Software Update from your main menu. Once it checks and confirms that an … Continue reading →

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VMware Fusion Updated to Version 1.1.2

Posted on April 24, 2008 by Bruce Keener

Regular readers know I am fan of VMware Fusion, because it lets me seamlessly run Windows on my iMac. For example, I use it to

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Announcing a Great New Blog: Team Fusion

Posted on February 7, 2008 by Bruce Keener

I had not planned on blogging again until Monday or Tuesday but just found out that VMware now has its own blog: Team Fusion Several of you will find this blog to be very interesting, since, like me, you have … Continue reading →

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VMware Fusion Updated with Key Remapping in Windows VM

Posted on January 29, 2008 by Bruce Keener

Vmware has just released a neat update to VMware Fusion. They tell me it has about 15 bugs fixes, which surprised me because I didn’t know it had 15 bugs. It works great for me. But the big change is … Continue reading →

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Seeking Some Linux Wisdom

Posted on January 15, 2008 by Bruce Keener

Today is the day when we hear what new wonderful things are arriving from Apple. I know several of you are Apple fans and will periodically checking the net trying to find out what is happening there. I will be … Continue reading →

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