Category Archives: Mac

A free boot recovery tool for Macs

Posted on April 19, 2007 by Bruce Keener

A couple of websites have mentioned a freeware utility called DasBoot, which you can use to save enough info from your Mac to an iPod (for example) to use the iPod to boot a Mac that’s gone belly up. Apparently, … Continue reading →

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Syncing a BlackBerry to a Mac

Posted on April 2, 2007 by Bruce Keener

One of the ways I want this blog to help our readers is by occasionally mentioning software that I think is particularly useful. That is the purpose of this post, and the software of note is Missing Sync for BlackBerry. … Continue reading →

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Running Vista on Your Mac: Boot Camp 1.2 Available

Posted on March 29, 2007 by Bruce Keener

Boot Camp 1.2 includes several improvements: Boot Camp 1.2 beta includes [Partial Listing]: Support for Windows Vista (32-bit) Updated drivers, including but not limited to trackpad, AppleTime (synch), audio, graphics, modem, iSight camera Support the Apple Remote (works with iTunes … Continue reading →

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Keeping a Pocket PC, Outlook, Mac iCal, and a Palm in Sync

Posted on March 20, 2007 by Bruce Keener

This post is for all the people who try to keep the data on a number of devices in sync. At the time of this writing, I used an iMac, Windows, a Pocket PC (Dell x51v), a BlackBerry Curve, and … Continue reading →

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Converting a MindMap to an OmniOutliner Project (iMac)

Posted on March 15, 2007 by Bruce Keener

Update (November 2010) : Apparently the makers of MindManager have moved the AppleScripts mentioned below, and I have not been able to find their new location (if they even exist anymore). As I’ve noted in other posts, I sometimes use … Continue reading →

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Mac Disk Repair

Posted on March 14, 2007 by Bruce Keener

In following up on LowEndMac’s “11 Ways to optimize your Mac performance” (based on a tip from Lifehacker), I installed an app to clean out all of my unused language files (saving 191 MB) and ran my favorite maintenance utility … Continue reading →

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